Practical Steps to Connecting with Professors

[0:00]Yeah, there's there's lots of ways you can connect to professors, whether you're online, in person, in hybrid. In some ways the easiest way to do this is right before or right after a class starts. So, you know, and it could even be an a virtual class, where you know, you're just waiting for things to get started and you you reach out and you just connect about something you ask a question. Another way to do that in classroom is to come up after class with a follow-up question or to say, is it okay if I come to your office hour? The professor's going to say yes, right? But you've already set the expectation then and started to create that relationship. And then if you go to office hours, again, whether virtual in person. You just come in, you know, remind them who you are and say, here's a question I have or here's something I'd like to know more about. And it doesn't have to be a question where you say I don't understand something. It can be, it's like, I'm really interested by what by this class and what you're talking about. How would how'd you get into this? Why are you interested? Because it turns out professors were once in your shoes, you know, thinking about what they wanted to do. And if you find someone who you think's interesting, sit down and ask them about.