Email is definitely the easiest way for students to communicate with their professors and vice versa. Email may be a “legacy media” when it comes to communicating with family and friends, but with professors, it is probably the most efficient and professional way to get in touch with each other. I went to a very small high school where I had personal relationships with all of my teachers, and would often times send rather informal emails when I had questions for them. After reading about proper email etiquette, I realized that I could never email my professors at UGA the way I emailed my teachers in high school! Now that I am in so many large classes with three hundred people in each one, my professors have no idea who I am and that is something that I’m not used to. I have not had to email one of them yet, and am thankful that I have this article to refer to from now on. Now that I am in college and school is much more serious, I think it is very important to be respectful and professional when emailing a professor, and show them that you are serious about their class. One thing that I noticed on the second article making fun of students emailing their professors unprofessionally, is that text “slang” was being used such as writing “u” instead of you, or  “ur” instead of your. Many students email in this way because our generation is so used to texting and shortening words, that it even appears in their emails. However, most students think this is okay because they have never been told what is proper email etiquette. I am grateful for this article, because now I no longer have to worry about my emails being too informal or too formal. It is definitely a format that I will use in the future!