Posted on 09/17/2014 11:01:08 AM PDT by EveningStar
When you email your professor for the first time, things can go very wrong if you think this is a text message to your BFF!
In all seriousness, there are some etiquette skills to learn in this video to make the best first impression. Moreover, you probably do not want to miss many classes at the start of any semester...
Most importantly, that email was not a word-for-word copy of a student's email. This is a mash up of many poor emails, some common email mistakes and some of my own embellishment compiled into one email. Let me repeat: I would never post an email of a student to the Internet nor would I suggest anyone else ever doing that...
(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
ping
Not sticking up for a clearly illiterate eMail from an unnamed student (it appears that we do have the whiney professor's name from the mast head, however), if he's got time to make and post YouTubes about such nonsense, it is entirely possible that his first two weeks worth of lectures might very well have involved making lame videos about his stupid cat.
FReegards!
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