Oh this wicked web your professor weaves! Every registration season it’s the same. You ask to chat about a summer internship opportunity, and they say you’re putting too much pressure on the situation and they can’t think that long term. Then the next day they call your comment in class a “brilliant insight”. They say they’re too busy to meet during office hours, but then their snap score goes up by two. Do they want to mentor you or not?!
Your friends say to let it go: there are other professors! And you could always do an off-campus major. But you know the truth: no other professor’s copy of Hegel’s “The Phenomenology of the Spirit” has quite as many dog-eared pages or coffee stains. And besides, what about that time they responded directly to you on Canvas? Does that just mean nothing?
Clearly they want to let you into their ten-seat seminar next semester. They just haven’t checked the portal in a while because they’re so offline!
Would sending a second PERM request be too desperate? Screw it, you’re totally wine drunk right now and listening to Taylor Swift. Just tell them how you feel! This course also happens to fill your last gen-ed requirement – clearly it’s meant to be. And your professor feels it too, you’re sure. They’re just like, dealing with stuff right now.
Wait, what?! They’re taking a leave of absence? They’re saying they “wouldn’t be a good professor for anyone right now”? Well, maybe you can take three classes this semester instead, and focus on yourself.