Surviving your professors

Here’s the deal- surviving through four years of your university life is pretty hard! And God have mercy on you if you are studying in some university with session jams. Nonetheless, things can get pretty ugly in the course of your academic life if luck doesn’t favour you. And sometimes, luck also refers to being in the good books of your professors. But after barely hanging onto life for somewhat twenty years, you should know by now that it doesn’t always go according to plan. One wrong move and you will swiftly go down in your professor’s Deathnote! And it’s a deep pit to climb back from again. However, climb you must! But how? Yours truly comes to your rescue.

Don’t play hide n seek!

You do not want to play around with the wolf, trust me! If you are already targeted by one of your professors, chances are they are already on the lookout for you. You are wrong to think that you can get yourself out of this situation by disappearing. On the contrary, you are only giving the professor more ammunition which they can and will use to annihilate you with. Attend their classes, be natural and stay calm. But not too much as your professor just might not be the happiest person in the world to see you so relaxed.

Get help!

This is where making a few good friends, which is a challenge in itself, will come in handy. Identify those friends who have done the exact opposite of you and gotten into the good books of your professors. Convince them to do you this one favour by helping you to get into the professor’s good books as well. Have your friend play the pivotal role of convincing the professor that you have turned over a new leaf, that you are a changed man now! Pull the strings from behind the scenes.

Take their side!

Bear in mind, this is a war that you need not win, rather survive. So in case you are presented with the golden opportunity of siding with your professor in conflicts, do it. Professors often face off against each other in silently raging wars. Your plan of action is simple. Play backup for your professor. Be his shield. Pledge your undying allegiance to the one and only. You don’t really have any other option because you are dead if you don’t. This way, you will have earned your professor’s trust. Even in defeat it’s a win for you.

Contingency: Proxy!

It won’t be surprising to find out that none of the strategies mentioned above could successfully help you. So here’s the deal: as a last ditch effort, just get a friend to act as your proxy for the remainder of the semester and hope for the best. There really isn’t anything left for you to try and fix your relationship with your professor, but your semester still needs saving. Because at the end of the day, we really do come all this way for the attendance!

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