I recently transferred to “better” school and the student scene here is incredibly different from my old university. I’m hearing a lot of advice and mannerisms that I’m just not used to at all because I haven’t heard of anyone doing them.

During some orientation programs and networking events I had someone tell me to email my professors with a brief informal intro and ask some questions, then later on introduce yourself face to face. WHAT?

Why and how would I even do this? Classes haven’t even started and don’t professors receive an insane amount of emails? Why would I want to add on to their already full inbox? Is it not good enough to just wait until office hours or at least after the first lecture? Would they think I’m a try hard if I do that? What if they hate me and remember me negatively because I made them take time out of their day to read some blurb about a student they don’t even know 😭