<p>I was told that getting to know your profesors is good idea and that you should try to go to their office hours every so often. I've found that with my humanites profs I have lots of things to talk about, but with my math and science ones, the only thing I can think of is to ask for help with stuff. What do people talk about with science profs?</p>
<p>Well for example, if you found something to be of interest in lecture, you ask them further about it. If for instance you read something in the news and want to talk to them about it, then by all means do it. Maybe you are doing research and want to correlate your research studies with the lecture. Or just talk about life and science and what they majored in and why they chose this career path. Be original.</p>
<p>Though you might be playing the premed game the professors aren't going to be very keen on having you waste their time with your BS. Office hours are there so that the professor can help students with concepts they don't understand but if you are going there to make believe you are interested in him or the subject in order to score a recommendation then you are just taking away from those students who actually need help and you're wasting the professor's time.</p>
<p>Well that is true, but in my school, hardly anyone ever attends the professor's office hours, so those who do, have all the time in the world.</p>
<p>Doesn't mean it's not a waste of the prof's time.</p>
<p>It's hard for me to go to office hours unless I need help on course material. I feel too guilty to play the "premed game" on profs by wasting their time talking about things not related to course just to get a great LOR later.</p>
<p>If you honestly have to BS the professor, then don't bother going to office hours lol. </p>
<p>I don't really have any answer on how to get to know your professor. I guess I'm not in a difficult situation though. Being at a small school where your professors are all over place helps. And because I'm in the HON program you get to know your professors anyways with some other students in small meetings and such</p>
<p>Pretty sums up my dilemma. Nothing to talk about (nor willing to feign interest for sake of conversation) but worried that down the line I won't have any science profs who even know my name. No other sugesstions?</p>
<p>lab professors? Are you at a school where you have professors teaching you the labs rather than TAs? The sciences professors that I know the best are the ones that have been my lab instructors (sometimes this has been the same professor who taught my class, usually in the upper-level classes, and other times it's been a different professor who is teaching all the lab units for a specific class).</p>
<p>I mean, my recs ended up coming from a chemistry class with 12 students, a biology lab with 15 students, and a medical economics course with 12 students. One of the advantages of small schools, I guess.</p>
<p>And honors classes.</p>