Hey everyone,
Just wanted to know the, for a lack of a better word, politics of sending a professor a thank you gift for a letter of rec. Wine with card? Only a Card? Nothing? I think the only person that I know that has lectured is the mightyStu (you’re going to kill at the contest [/side]) All answers and input are much appreciated…
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including stick it in her pooper and all variations
[quote]ahu2468 wrote:
Hey everyone,
Just wanted to know the, for a lack of a better word, politics of sending a professor a thank you gift for a letter of rec. Wine with card? Only a Card? Nothing? I think the only person that I know that has lectured is the mightyStu (you’re going to kill at the contest [/side]) All answers and input are much appreciated…
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including stick it in her pooper and all variations[/quote]
I’ll be graduating with my PhD in a few weeks and have taught college classes for the past few years as part of my program. Even though I’m not official yet, most of my students consider me their professor.
I have written some letters and never received a thank you gift, but I wouldn’t mind one. I have on the other hand received a Boston Red Sox 2007 WS edition monopoly game from one of my students for no apparent reason whatsoever (I inform my class every semester of my love for the BoSox).
Don’t know if that helped…but I don’t think you could go wrong with a card.
Bango
For a letter of rec I think a thank you letter is the appropriate response.
A gift is taking it a little too far imo, a little too “intimate”.
Wine is inappropriate for this kind of thing. And I dont think a thankyou card is right either.
A letter I believe is key here.
I don’t know…consider the Professor…I asked one of the most popular Professors in my dept. to write me a rec. letter. It was for business school and he was an English professor. It turned out he accidentally mailed the letter to me instead of the Uni I’d appled to. In the meantime I’d gotten my CFO to write me one that I thought would have more ‘weight’ in business school than an English Professor, so I opened the letter from my English Professor.
It said, “I have never worked with a better student than Westclock.” I was like…dude…my name’s Sen Say. So, obviously he had a form letter where he just filled in people’s names. Or, maybe he only used the form letter for people that sucked and he couldn’t think of anything to write, but I think the fact that so many people asked him for references (I mean basically 100% of English UnderGrads need to go to Grad School) led him to just copy and paste names.
So, if you ask the most popular Professor, no need to send a thank you as he probably fucked you over by not putting the right name on the letter.
On the other hand, if you have a Professor that no one likes and you ask him to write you a letter of recommendation then maybe you could send him a thank you card. But, if no one likes him and you’re asking him to write a letter he’s probably a homo or a ped and either way will expect you to properly thank him by letting him suck your cock or paint your nails or clean his stainless steel kitchen appliances for him with steel wool on a lazy Sunday afternooon, so when he gets your thank you card he’ll tear it up and hope you don’t get into grad school.
Good luck.
A thank you letter, or even a thank you email, will be fine. I sent all my professors thank you emails who did reco letters for me, and they were all thankful for me updating them and thanking them on the situation.