My Professor (illustrated letter)
So finally, I just confronted him point blank. "I don't understand," I said with a smile, since I was still trying to be nice and charming:
"My papers are quite good by your own admission. I'm quite interested in the topics you discuss in your course, and I'm probably more knowledgeable about them than anyone else in the class. So what have I done to get you so down on me? What do you have against me?"
He was startled by my sudden frankness, but he quickly composed himself and gave me a long, hard stare. After an uncomfortable pause, he sighed and began to speak in a tense, disdainful manner. "Miss R-----," he began, "I must say that I have a very hard time believing that you don't know what it is that I'm so 'down on you' about, as you put it."