The student government has appointed me to sit on the Faculty Publications Committee (three or four of the faculty committees include some token student representatives). I don't know enough about the Faculty Publications Committee to say whether this means that I have earned the respect of my peers or that I was just the first guy dumb enough to take the job. I think my only duties will be to attend a few meetings and report back to the student government, which should be easy enough. At minimum, I'll get to rub elbows with a few professors, and that can only be a good thing.
I don't have much of a handle on the relationship we students are expected to have with our professors. In some contexts (class) they can be very intimidating--deliberately intimidating, one often suspects. In other contexts, they're perfectly affable. Then, of course, individual professors vary in their approachability. It's all a terrible strain on my underdeveloped social skills.
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