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This is an issue that can also impact graduate students, so I do think it's appropriate for this group. Unfortunately, once a class hour schedule has been published for the next semester, and parti …

It's in your interest to inform the other two departments that you have an offer and the date by which you need to respond to that offer. You can say this without naming the first institution or the …

As someone who is often on the receiving end of such questions, my advice is: First and foremost, understand the theory behind the code before you go ask questions. Many of the questions that I get …

You should clean up after yourself and get out of the classroom so that the instructor and students who will use the classroom next can get into the room and prepare for their class. Classrooms aren' …

It would be normal to have some letters of recommendation from professors at your undergraduate institution. In my experience, faculty often write such letters for students a few years after they've …

You can certainly ask, but your professor might or might not be interested in helping with this. If I got a similar request I'd almost certainly say yes, but your professor might have a different att …

If the conference publishes a conference proceedings volume than you can buy a copy or get it through your library. You might also request copies directly from the authors. Other conferences don't p …

You can certainly ask a professor politely if he/she would be willing to talk to you about some research topic that might be of mutual interest to you. Don't be too surprised if the professor isn't i …

We don't know the schedule of skype interviews for this particular institution, or the review process that happens after skype interviews and before candidates are invited to campus. In my recent exp …

Saying "thanks, I don't have any questions at the moment." Would be appropriate and it would also be appropriate and perhaps show more interest in the position if you did ask a question or two about t …

Assuming that you submitted your application to the human resources office of the university, then it would be appropriate to check with them to make sure that the application was received and was con …

The only real recourse that they would have is to sue you for breaking the contract. Although that's possible, chances are that they wouldn't be able to prove substantial damages and that even if the …

The argument for plan 2 is that if you have an offer from employer A with a particular deadline but you would prefer to take a position with employer B, then if you don't say something, employer B cou …

Feel free to ask, but if this author is in the same position I was in when my recent book was published, the answer would have to be "no" Under my contract I got a set number of printed copies of the …

Historically, publishers didn't make abstracts of papers available to indexing services, and thus it was necessary for Mathematical Reviews (the print-only predecessor to MathSciNet) to use volunteers …