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During office hours, I talk to my professors about classes, and just about like the material.
I'm in a Gender/Women Studies class, so we usually discuss stuff outside of the class,
and just usually stuff that pertains to the material, and sometimes
I ask them how their days are going.
Basically, when you're at office hours, you just kind of ask questions
about like general concepts that maybe you don't understand,
or a lot of the times, my friends and I, we go
to office hours just to get to know the professor,
and get kind of close and stuff. We ask questions about
his research, or his studies that he does.
Well, usually it just helps to get to know your professor better.
Because once you build up that relationship, it's easier
to express yourself in the workload.
And I'll just come up with some random excuse to go, just to
talk to someone and get a better feel of the class.
Every professor and even some of your GSI's [graduate student instructors]
will have office hours.
There you can ask them any questions you have, or if you just
like straight-up don't understand the material, they'll help you with it.
It's also a really good way to know your professors in
a bigger class, when you otherwise wouldn't meet them.
That's where you wanna go if you need a letter of recommendation from them, too.
I feel like I like to get to know my professors and GSI's.
So, a lot of times it helps out to be friends with them, especially GSI's -- they're students, too.
So, I feel like it really helps to get to know
them, and sometimes you become good friends with them,
and I still have teachers and GSI's from my freshmen year,
who are still like 'Hey Vicky! How are you?',
and like write me letters of recommendation, 'cause they know me.
I find it really helpful to go to GSI's office hours, because you can also talk to them.
Being a science-major, you can talk to them about how they got into
research and just like general internship tips and things like that.
So, it's really helpful.
Oh, well, things you don't understand, and also like if you want
to get into research or something with a professor,
in whatever subject that you like, then you should talk to them, too.
Papers I'm working on, or opportunities or events that
are going on in the department.
I usually just ask questions.
So, I talk about questions I have, even if it goes beyond
the class scope, like what I have to know.
It's always kind of nice to get more of the inside scoop.
Whatever questions I have in class that haven't been answered.
Also, I sometimes can go off-tangent with what I talk to my professor about,
any other remote questions I might have about the material, and wanna develop
some of my own theses, y'know about the subject matter.
I usually just try to bring ideas to office hours, like
kind of in the professor's general field of interests,
but not necessarily what's discussed in class.
In that, I'm really interested in consciousness, mystical experience, psychedelic experience,
and the way the mind works and how it relates to brain.
I'll just kind of talk about whatever's on my mind, I guess!
What do I do at office hours?
Interviewer: What do you talk about at office hours?
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