How to Ask for a Reference Letter

Asking a professor for a letter, or more likely many letters, of reference can be stressful, and rarely are students instructed on proper etiquette. Fortunately, the process doesn’t have to be intimidating advises Adam Chapnick.

A Professor of Psychology: Artist, Biker, Relic Collector

The first thing that strikes you when you meet Professor Frederick Coolidge is that he could make himself inconspicuous in any setting. Not because he is ordinary in any way, but because he wants to be the one who is watching and sizing you up. Welcome to the mind of a Psychologist.