Tips for good relationships with instructors

**Avoid these negative behaviors.**

• Making excuses (your instructors have heard them all). Accept responsibility for your mistakes and failures.
• Arguing angrily- especially over exams.
• Treating classes as social hours or unwanted obligations.
• Being a know-it-all student.
• Telling emotional and personal stories leading nowhere
• Demanding that your instructors give you special favors and consideration.
• Telling other students what you dislike about the instructor instead of going directly to the instructor.
• Being irritating to an instructor who irritates you.
• Asking your instructors to be personal counselors.

**Much of this material was taken from Becoming a Master Student, Ellis.