<p>I need to start doing this more, college rec time is coming up my senior year ;). How do you suck up masters do it? Share some tips!</p>
<p>I wouldn't call myself a master at sucking up, but by watching so many people suck up, I have a pretty good idea as to what works...</p>
<p>Don't suck up. Or at least make it look like you're not. At my school, teachers tend to really like those who participate A LOT in discussions and ask a lot of good questions and also seem to genuinely like the teacher. Participate a lot and do well on tests and I'm sure you're recs will be fine. I wouldn't worry about sucking up :)</p>
<p>If you're asking this question, then you're probably not one of those people who can suck up effortlessly but isn't obvious about it. Which means that overt attempts to suck up will probably backfire on you.</p>
<p>So I suggest showing genuine interest in the subject and respect for the teacher by asking good questions, leading discussions, and showing good behavior. (You wouldn't think that teachers would notice the small details, but they do.)</p>
<p>If the chance arises, engage in meaningful conversation with the teacher. But if you're not the type to randomly drop in on your teacher during their lunch break for a quick chat, then don't suddenly start doing it.</p>
<p>don't sleep in class, seem as if you are learning something, and don't do homework for another class in their class.</p>
<p>participate in class, stay after school for extra help (if u need it) and then just go in to talk a little every once in a while. that's wat i do. oh and of course smile a lot at 'em.</p>
<p>Bluntly, I don't.</p>
<p>haha, this is one art that I have mastered. The key is to act like your interested while in class and never sleep. Even when your finished with the class, come back and visit the teacher at least twice a week so you cant get to know them better and vice-versa. Trust me...it works. I have at least 8 solid reccomendations from teachers ranging from 7th to my current grade.</p>
<p>there is no need to suck up. Just be polite and personable to your teachers when/if you need to talk to them and participate in class and you should get all of the reccomendations you need.</p>
<p>no need to suck up ... just be attentive in class, participate in class discussions, do some extra research, be prepared, talk to the teacher outside of class, do all your work on time and completely ...</p>
<p>I greet the teachers when I see them... and that's about it.</p>
<p>i greet the teachers when I see them also. I also "listen" in class and behave myself and gain the teacher's trust till the end of the year. it actually works also.. </p>
<p>congrads to myself for my 300th post.</p>
<p>I don't ever suck up, and it annoys the hell out of me whenever I see people blatantly sucking up. </p>
<p>My freshman and sophomore years of high school, there was this girl on my volleyball team who was a year older than me. She sucked, and she was our setter. She sucked up like no other, and of course, it worked. She got to start over the other setter who was wayyy better. I got so mad at the end of one practice where she had given the coach a blanket that she had knitted. I snapped and asked her if it was hard to breathe w/ her mouth pressed to our coach's ass.</p>
<p>Definitely have never regretted that. I got benched for a game, but it was so worth it, because our coach finally realized what the girl had been doing.</p>
<p>can you say. "OWNED?"</p>
<p>If I didn't suck up, my recent anatomy grades wouldn't magically turn from 98 to 100 or a C to a B..:D</p>
<p>Even if the teacher doesnt realize it, sucking up will make you look like a tool to some... just participate in discussions (using wise arguments of course) and challenge the teacher when you think he or she may be wrong (only works for the GOOD teachers in high school... you will know who they are). The rest will fall into place</p>
<p>^^::nods::</p>
<p>WARNING: if they're NOT good teachers, and just appear good, you might get into deep, deep trouble.</p>
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<p>The trick is to suck up to teachers who don't teach you, like your friends' teachers. :D Go up to them at lunch, say hi, talk to them as if they're your friend. (Only if they eat alone in their classroom.) And eventually, you do become his friend. This works best with teachers who aren't your teachers because then they don't think you're sucking up.</p>
<p>I guess this strategy only really pays off if teachers who used to not teach you end up teaching you in later years. Which never ended up happening to me, so now I just have a bunch of random teachers who like me. Which is pretty worth it in and of itself.</p>
<p>Or you could suck up to former teachers, like teachers you have junior year but not senior year, right before you ask them for recommendations.</p>
<p>I think not falling asleep is the ONE major thing I can not do to get on my teachers good side.</p>