Depends on where you got the impression of him as a hard ass -- some profs are very hard and demanding if you work for them or are in their classes. If neither, then it's a free pass. Be curious to see if your opinions of him came from guys or girls. As girls in science (esp for you in a hard science like chem), there's several reactions generally: the fatherly one, which is my usual experience because my profs in college were almost all my grandparent's age. Then there's the "oh, isn't she cute trying to be a scientist" one that makes you want to kick them in the balls. then the genuinely friendly one that can also be severely confused with the one that is just a plain male dog but hides it to your face.
Yes, yes, I'm jaded, what else is new?
but yes, I knew you'd be fine, but I also know how much I freaked out during my first undergrad poster presentation -- I wouldn't let my parents come till hours later because I didn't think I'd hold it together as well w/ them there. But phd's are generally very encouraging to undergrads rather than trying to scare them out of science. That would take all the fun out of graduate school after all. :P:P
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Date: 2007-07-27 09:45 pm (UTC)Yes, yes, I'm jaded, what else is new?
but yes, I knew you'd be fine, but I also know how much I freaked out during my first undergrad poster presentation -- I wouldn't let my parents come till hours later because I didn't think I'd hold it together as well w/ them there. But phd's are generally very encouraging to undergrads rather than trying to scare them out of science. That would take all the fun out of graduate school after all. :P:P