letters of recommendation problems

[umean2tellme]

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Ok, so being a non science major and a transfer student I don't have a lot of natural science professors that I've known long enough to get letters from. I have one that i could get but she is so hard to get a hold of when shes in the country. A calculus prof of mine promised me that she wrote my letter but has been "forgetting" to send it in to the pre med office, even after the 10 or so emails and facebook messages i've sent her. Yes she is alive I saw her while riding the school bus the other day and by the time I got off to chase her down she disappeared; even checked her office. And, if I get those two, I'm still short one nat sci class, and all i ahve left are pathophys, which is a 1 cred discussion and phys 2 which i won't have a final grade before the nov deadline to have composite letters sent. What do you guys think of just begging a professor whose office i've never set foot in to write me a letter, provided i passed their class????

 

[TexasTriathlete]

A calculus prof of mine promised me that she wrote my letter but has been "forgetting" to send it in to the pre med office, even after the 10 or so emails and facebook messages i've sent her.

Bring her an envelope, addressed and postage affixed, and tell her all she has to do is drop it in the mail.

As for the rest... it sounds like you should have taken the time to get to know some of your profs better. Maybe you can work in one of their labs or something?

When I went back to school for my med school pre-requisites, I knew I'd have to get letters from the profs, so I made it a point to sit up front, ask questions, go to office hours, talk to them after class, etc.. The ones I felt like I got along well with, I hit them up for letters.

Two of them, I have since been their personal trainer, and they go on rides with my triathlon group from time to time.

As a kinesiology degree-holder, I suppose I am lucky that I have had some athletic science profs. One of them, a 53-year-old woman and biotechnologist, is a mutant on the bike. She makes strong guys look slow.