Or teachers, if you're in lolhighschool?

I am.

It always feels weird calling professors or teachers by their first name after using their last name for so long. Even after getting to know them well.

What do you call Bobby then?

Dr. Smith, unless he's okay with Professor Smith.

The question I was really asking was if you had a good relationship with your instructors. My dad, for example, still hangs out with one of his college professors. He drinks with him, for fuck's sake. I was just wondering if anyone had similar relationships here, because I think it's kinda sweet.

Not really, I feel like I've been indoctrinated to never call my teachers/professors with their title and last name even if I know them well.

Tell me about the first-name basis situation then.

There's just this one professor who my dad has been friends with for years--he'd get invited over to watch football games and drink beer and shoot the shit--and now he teaches me in one of his courses. For someone who's been teaching for as long as he has, he's still quite young, which might explain the laid-back-ness of it, and he's just known me for the longest time.

Quote from: Elegiac on January 28, 2015, 07:17:48 AM

Tell me about the first-name basis situation then.

There's just this one professor who my dad has been friends with for years--he'd get invited over to watch football games and drink beer and shoot the shit--and now he teaches me in one of his courses. For someone who's been teaching for as long as he has, he's still quite young, which might explain the laid-back-ness of it, and he's just known me for the longest time.

It makes more sense to me now.

Any class that isn't a practicum of some sorts. Major classes are those where you just in auditorium with dozens or hundreds of other people just listening to the professor's lecture. You don't interact with him or her, so no one gets on a first name basis.

Right, I see. That's sort of cheating, but I know what you mean. Obviously, that's less of a, "No, I'm not" and more of a "I don't have the opportunity."

Almost all of the comp sci department because of extracurriculars and robotics and such. I'm trying to make friends with the Math department but they're always so busy.

Not even going to try for any humanities course. It literally takes 30 minutes of waiting just to get an opportunity to ask the prof a question.

Quote from: Verbatim on January 28, 2015, 07:39:42 AM

Quote from: Flee on January 28, 2015, 07:33:20 AM

Any class that isn't a practicum of some sorts. Major classes are those where you just in auditorium with dozens or hundreds of other people just listening to the professor's lecture. You don't interact with him or her, so no one gets on a first name basis.

Right, I see. That's sort of cheating, but I know what you mean. Obviously, that's less of a, "No, I'm not" and more of a "I don't have the opportunity."

Yeah, it's the second. Not sure if my university is very different to your college in that aspect, but the only time we're in these smaller groups is when it's for a practicum, seminar or something similar. There's around 150 people doing what I'm doing now, so there isn't much room for up close and personal contact with the professor. You can go ask questions all you want, of course, but unless he ends up being your promotor for a thesis or phd, you're not going to get any sort of relationship with him or her.

I'm in the same boat, I have 300 people in my intermediate chem lecture. We break down into smaller groups for discussions and seminars but those are led by grad students or student volunteers