^ ditto
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Helpful note to prospective PhD students posting here
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Posted 3 years ago #
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In our program, it wasn't the norm. Additionally, he spoke of the faculty as if they were best buddies. They weren't.
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We had a person in my grad program always refer to people as "Dr. _____." I always thought that guy came off as a complete idiot.
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so how the hell are we supposed to refer to profs?
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The complaint is not merely that people refer to professors by their first names. It is that certain people attempt to insinuate, by using first names, that they have a close personal relationship with famous scholars, when in fact they do not. It is just one more example of grad-school douchebag behavior.
God you people are dense.
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I'm perfectly aware of that. It's just that the options are dwindling; apparently, first name is not ok and dr. X is not ok. what is?
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I called mine "professor" until told otherwise.
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Well brainiac, how about Professor?
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his/her eminence
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I'll log on for this posting (I wrote the ones above about my program having the norm of not using first names to refer to professors).
I'm pretty old school when it comes to referring to people by titles when they are either (a) older than me, or (b) in a position of authority to me. Until they tell me that I can call them by their first names (or, unless it is is clear that the norm is to use first names), I will use the person's title when speaking or referring to the person (for example, Dr., Professor, Mr. etc.). In fact, I still refer to my next door neighbor as Mr. Jones rather than calling him by his first name (he's retired and about 20 years older than I am and we've been neighbors for about 15 years).
That's just the way that I was raised and I make no apologies for it. If that makes me an idiot, then there it is. Obviously, that's not the way I see it. Now feel free to flame away.
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Your Excellency or Your Highness might be appropriate, especially for the chair of your program.
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Most people refer to their professors by their last names. Did you see what Smith is teaching next semester? Man, Jones really raped me on that seminar paper. Etc.
Posted 3 years ago #