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Washington and Lee University Holds 223rd Undergraduate Commencement on May 27
Washington and Lee University will celebrate its 223rd undergraduate commencement on Thursday, May 27, on its historic Front Lawn in front of Lee Chapel. It will award bachelor’s degrees to just more than 400 students.
TEDxTokyo – Morinosuke Kawaguchi – 05/15/10 (English)

AHPBA 2008 Annual Meeting Postgraduate Course DVD No.03A The List of Content:Session III: State of the Art Lecture Introduction: Mark P. Callery, MD AHPBA President- Elect; NOTES ™ in HPB Disease Speaker: Ram Chuttani, MD The AHPBA 2008 Annual Meeting has been structured around six tracks. These represent the liver, the pancreas, the biliary system, liver transplantation, imaging and biomedical engineering, and general hepatobiliary (HPB) surgical di…

AHPBA 2008 Annual Meeting Postgraduate Course DVD No.09 List of content:State of the Art Lecture – Grand Salon E Pancreatic Resection for Ductal Adenocarcinoma: Technical Considerations and Current State of the Art Introduction: Bruce Schirmer Speaker: Masao Tanaka Professor and Chairman, Department of Surgery and Oncology Graduate School of Medical Services Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan President’s Invited Speaker – Current Topics in Health Care …

AHPBA 2008 Annual Meeting Postgraduate Course DVD No.05 List of content: Sanofi-aventis Dinner Symposium – Grand Salon A-E Advances in the Management of Colorectal Liver Metastases: The Need for a Multidisciplinary Approach Speaker: J. Nicolas Vanthey, MD The AHPBA 2008 Annual Meeting has been structured around six tracks. These represent the liver, the pancreas, the biliary system, liver transplantation, imaging and biomedical engineering, and general…

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What should I do? I require recommendation letters from profs and I’m taking distance classes..?

I don’t know what to do. I graduated from university over 4 years ago, where I got my undergraduate degree. Now I am working and taking distance courses to boost my GPA and to serve as prerequisites to a Master’s Program I’d like to apply for, very badly. Problem is, they require 2 recommendation letters from professors. Not only has it been over 4 years since I graduated, but my university was in another city.
I’ve been working + volunteering and my employers like me there a lot…and I just started my distance university courses.

If your only interaction with your professors is classwork, then I don’t expect that any professor would be able to give much of a recommendation of you beyond reporting what grade you earned, but I’d be so bold as to make that statement even if you were there in a classroom with the professor.

The Internet and telephone has made it possible to get to know someone without meeting them in person. I’ve got numerous friends I’ve only met over the Internet and have interacted with for years. Even the ones I’ve never met in person are still real people, real friends to me. There have been few surprises when I’ve met Internet friends in person, so I therefore conclude that if your distance learning experience includes real interaction (albeit over a distance) with your professors, that your distant professors can recommend you with clear conscience and sincere intent.

Double check with the admissions folks to verify that they are only interested in letters from professors. An undergraduate applying to continue on into grad school would be hard pressed to come up with a letter of recommendation from anyone but their professors (or from the undergraduate’s Mom), but someone in your position ought to be able to provide recommendations from co-workers or managers at work or at that volunteer position. I’d expect such letters to carry real weight in the admissions process.

Letters of Recommendation

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