Academic Contract ( Added: Thu Jul 21 2005   Hits: 96) Whether you choose to accept it or not, you have entered an academic contract where you will have a give and take relationship with professors. Some may offer you quite a bit and never ask for anything in return. In other instances, you may have to help them with projects for meager short-term returns. In any case, professors may require much from you, they will use you for leg work, a fresh perspective, as well as having an ally amongst their ultimate judges: your fellow students.

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	Advisors ( Added: Thu Jul 21 2005   Hits: 94) Advisors are there to help. But because of their limited resources, they often find themselves shorthanded and tend to give varying degrees of help to different students.

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Burned-out Academic ( Added: Thu Jul 21 2005   Hits: 91) This is the person that has accomplished more than you will in a lifetime. They have taken a break – permanent or temporary – from the business world and have found refuge in the classroom. They are in control of matters now and can go at their own pace. This type has tremendous intellect as well as a mid- to high-level of education that accelerated their career at an early age. But this made them burn both ends of the candle at once. The problem is that at some point in their career, they realized that they had seen eve

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Business Minded Academic ( Added: Thu Jul 21 2005   Hits: 92) This individual is also an academic at heart but they view school as a business. They love school and cherish the purity of the classroom. They like the idea of playing a part in your development. They may have done their thing in business and now wish to give back. Whether they failed or succeeded is not the issue. What is important is that they drill you the way a senior manager would. They view teaching as a job, and your education as a form of military training. Teaching is not so much of a calling for them as it is a mandate. They view the classroom as a department, the class as a project and themself as the division m

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Challenging Professors ( Added: Thu Jul 21 2005   Hits: 97) Parents, friends, professors, colleagues and bosses are human like you. Celebrities, whether they are athletes, entertainers, musicians and actors are also human like you. For this reason, being in awe of their accomplishments will always render you a groupie. You have to wake up thinking that you are the rock star, the guitarist, the bassist or the drummer. But if you have a virtuoso in front of you, then you should pace yourself until the stage is set for you.

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Good Professors ( Added: Thu Jul 21 2005   Hits: 95) Good Professors take a student's interest and raise it several notches. They also create an environment where students feel free to question the institutional imperative. The best ones even take apathetic students and nearly transform them into interested parties. Good business professors are those that view students as clients. Good non-business professors view students as patients. Fitting, since most are doctors anyway thanks to their Ph.D. They aim to satisf

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