<p>Are you getting your teachers/counselors anything for writing you wonderful recommendations?</p>
<p>At the very least I plan to write them all thank you cards for being wonderful people and letting them know where I plan to go and what I plan to do come late April/whenever I decide.</p>
<p>But I've heard of some people buying them little presents to thank them more. And I've been browsing the web and I've found a PERFECT coffee tumbler with the caffiene molecule on it (for my junior yr chem teacher).</p>
<p>I was also planning to get an EE Cummings poetry book for my junior yr English teacher since I've recently become obsessed with his poems.... but I'll give her the receipt incase she already has it...</p>
<p>No idea what to get my junior yr Human Geography teacher, though, maybe a book, but I haven't decided yet....</p>
<p>Yep! So, are you guys doing any teacher-presents? I love buying things for people :)</p>
<p>It would be a bribe AFTER they already wrote the recommendations and AFTER I've gotten acceptance and rejection letters and have decided where to go? What exactly would I be bribing them for at this point? It's not like I'm planning to spend $50 on them. $15, maybe. $10, probably. It's not going to be a gift to make them or anyone else uncomfortable - just a "thank you" gift that they will hopefully enjoy and remember me by.</p>
<p>I brought homemade bread to the teachers who wrote my RSI recs. Maybe I'll go more elaborate for college recs and do something like cookies. Skills like baking and photography are nice like that, because you can give a present that obviously shows your appreciation - but the only real "expense" is your time. Then again, your ideas are more personalized ^.^</p>
<p>The school admistraters at my school never lets us have the same teacher 2 times.. So i'm not really close to any of my teachers, let alone have the urge to get them a present..</p>
<p>And in my school, no one exchanges gifts with the teacher.. it's just weird for us.. teachers are teachers an students and students. we all stay away from each other lol</p>
<p>But if I end up having a close relationships with one of the teachers in senior year (highly unlikely tho) I will probably get them a book or gift vouchers to cafes or umm bookshops or shopping places or something.. But i dont think i'd go as far as to giving them a mug with my name on it - way too personal..</p>
<p>I think everyone should present teachers with presents. I mean, most teachers in America have crap pay and are belittled by parents and children alike. They could do with some gifts once in a while.</p>
<p>lol my teachers are definitely not underpaid... some of the top paid public school teachers in the midwest (which made the referendum we had in the spring 10x harder to pass)... but I think they're great just the same. Last year was the first year teachers really believed in me and pushed me to my extremes, and I want to thank them for that, definitely.</p>
<p>A friend of mine had asked her teacher to write a recommendation for Yale's summer program. After she got in, she gave the teacher a note in a basket with other things (which the teacher "aww"-ed at). I imagine she'll be asking the same teacher for her college recs...</p>