- Make sure that you don't give your adviser any reason to be difficult. Always make appointments before you show up.
- Try to do your homework before you meet your adviser. Know what questions you'll have in advance -- especially if they relate to class choices.
- If you've done all you can to be a good advisee, but it's not working, then contact the director of undergraduate advising for your department. Get a new adviser.
- Ask if your department has evaluation forms for advisers. If it does, make sure to participate. This could be a good way to help reward good advising or get something off your chest with a bad adviser.
- Give Student Government or your department head good ideas on ways to further improve advising.
article taken from The Broadside, February 1999 vol. 2, number 3 |
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