I genuinely don't like when students call me by my first name. I feel like... it's an important thing that they're trying out. you get to college, the cool professors let you use their first names! that's the trope! but I hate it so much
the only profs i called by first name were the ones who, like, i legit built a relationship up with. like that one prof who took me to have dinner with her parents.
i still won't call my grad school professors, who arguably care less about it because they want to get you to be more collegial over time with them, by their first names and i haven't been in school with them since 2018 technically since i scampered off to internship lmao
the thing i feel like this might be built on is a...kind of regional...thing where (YOUNG. BABY) students call their teachers "miss [firstname]" ?? but like
like there's only two grad school professors i call by their first names because they would outright ignore you if you called them dr. (last name) lmao they really wanted to remove that layer
yeah like. it's two weeks in! They're brand new! they needed me to show them how to export a .doc file and upload it to the assignment! there are reasons to explain all this, but I also hate it
we are all in the upper echelon of nerds. the general consensus in my academic community is that when you get the PhD everyone has to call you Dr for the first year and then you're an asshole if you force it beyond that
I’ve been in classes that have done this, had us do short essay questions on how to turn in work, where to find various info etc. Naturally, people still did not read, but those professors were tired...
it's interesting, because in Austria it is very formal generally, we say 'Ms. Professor Last Name', but in England during my undergrad and postgrad, every professor used only their first name
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: I lived in Georgia for a year! basically a lifetime ago. I was 100% Ms Jessica the entire time and I thought it was super charming because I was 17 and nobody ever called me miss for anything
if I addressed my professors directly, I'd say 'Frau Professor' or 'Herr Professor' without last name, but when writing emails it can be a whole minefield as you figure out the right title to address people by, cause Austria is very in love with titles... although it is getting less so, this generation cares a lot less
as a baby undergrad, I never called professors by their first names, even when they told me to. I was barely able to be that casual with the TAs/GAs. At least in my Japanese classes, everyone was [Last Name]-sensei no matter what.
and then in my grad program, it was about half the professors that wanted to be called by their first names, and the other half made it clear you would call them doctor
This is my villain origin story
as if the universe sensed my fury, it was immediately followed by this from another student