How to start a conversation with an Instructor?
I am taking this project course in September. The Course Coordinator assigns the groups and topic…and not so randomly. If he likes you, he will assign you a good group with an easy topic. Therefore, it is important to get on his good side.
However, I have never met him. Most of the other students have met him in a previous course. I want to e-mail him so that he at least has heard of my name and perhaps have a chance of getting in a decent group.
What should I e-mail him about? I don’t want to sound too fake. The course is pretty much just the project and lectures once a week. There are multiple instructors that will teach different seminars during the lecture slot. There’s no textbook. I have not found anything in the course content that is worth of e-mailing for. He doesn’t have any significant research and does not have any other positions at the department that I know of.
I’m out of ideas!
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Just email him to say that you’re happy to be in his class and are looking forward to the upcoming semester. Ask him if there are any on-topic materials he recommends that you read because you’re really interested in the subject matter. (He’ll eat that up.)
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