How to cope when you're in love with your professor

 It happens to the best of us. One minute, you’re entering a class with only a half-hearted intention of taking it—maybe you hear it's an easy A, or your friend wants company during shopping period, so you sit in on Introduction to Linguistics even though you're pre-med. Then the professor shows up, starts lecturing in a calming yet authoritative voice, and throws in just the right amount of humor. The next thing you know, you're tattooing their office hours onto your thigh as a reminder of how to best use your time in this new stage of your young, romantic life.Though this issue is harrowing, take comfort in the fact that you have options! Here are some ways you can deal:Sit in the front of the lecture hall and attempt to make eye contact when your professor plays Romeo and Juliet’s make-out scene on the big screen. Know that if you and they were in this scene, there would be no need to debate if love at first sight could be real.  When they give you an override code, ask, “How could I possibly repay you?” Pause. “Seriously, let me know if you think of anything at all.” Then wink.Slide into their Canvas DMs.Carefully orchestrate a plan that is sure to result in an incredible relationship (as well as the destruction of their marriage, the end of their career, and a severe blow to both your education and self-esteem).Remind yourself that professors are gross and that 20-year-olds are way more interesting, intelligent, respectful, and mature. What were you thinking?Resign yourself to a life of unrequited love and accept that Ratty dates and post-hookup avoidance is the best it’s going to get.Image via and via.