My girlfriend’s dad will be my professor, should I switch?

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I enrolled in my classes a while back when we first started dating and I didn’t know her dad was a professor. Now we have been together a couple months and I am going to her house next weekend, meaning I’ll be meeting her dad who will be my professor.

Should I switch out of the class?

Comments

  1. BulkyFoundation6298 Avatar

    No. Don’t be wimpy.

  2. ToneDowntown1616 Avatar

    Does he like you? If so, stay in the class. If you’re a good student and person, it’s a chance for some major brownie points.

  3. IndigoTrailsToo Avatar

    You know what?

    What if you go and then mention it in passing as a chuckle? And then you should ask him how you can do well in his class.

    Whatever he tells you, do that thing.

    For some professors it is plain as day, the thing that you need to do is to show up and do homework. But sometimes professors will have a trick to them like maybe all of their answers are in the footnotes. Find out and do whatever advice he tells you.

  4. EncryptedW_BludRites Avatar

    Stay but don’t let him annoy you about your relationship with your girl coz its really none of his business tbf

  5. Express_Way_3794 Avatar

    No, but be sure to do well in it

  6. FinePossession1085 Avatar

    Is there a chance you will break up during the term?

    Most professors have set grading standards. They have their tests and answer keys completed. If there are a lot of subjective assignments, then unconscious bias is possible.

    If the area is your passion and you think that breaking up is either unlikely, then stay in the class.

    1. Make sure you show up to every class as 90% of life is just showing up. Many students only show up 2/3 of the time and then wonder why they don’t do well, which isn’t a mystery to their instructors.

    2. If you are ill, then send an email to your professor about not being able to attend class BEFORE you don’t show up. Ask what you can do to make up the material when you are well. Show up at the start of his office hours window to demonstrate your interest in understanding what you missed.

    3. Do your work ahead of time. That way, if you don’t understand something, you can go to office hours and ask. Sending emails the day before an assignment is do shows the instructor that you aren’t taking the assignment seriously and are one of those last-minute, don’t-really-care types.

    4. Read the assigned material BEFORE class begins. Be ready to answer questions and ask questions.

    5. Go above and beyond on open-ended answers (use examples to back up arguments).

    6. Use spell check before turning in assignments, and edit your writing.

    Get into these habits, and your instructors will adore you.

  7. Desperate_Ad2227 Avatar

    That depends… Are you intimate with her? Are you her first? Does he know? What’s his opinion of it? What’s his base opinion of you? Whats the class? Yea, it matters.

  8. Rengeflower Avatar

    No, keep the class. Chickening out and switching classes shows immaturity. Be an adult.