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Professor doesn't like me and is ignoring my emails - what do I do?

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Long story short, my professor has incredibly poor email etiquette. Not to say she has bad spelling or anything, but she's straight up just rude. Not blunt, rude. I've had an almost-argument with her over email before because of it, and it didn't come to any sort of resolution, sort of just got left the way it was because I stopped replying.

Now, I recently emailed her to ask about a word count for our final assignment for her class. I was very polite ("Dear _____, I hope your day is going well! I was just emailing to ask what the word count is for [assignment] as I can't find any information about it on [class page]. Many thanks! ______.") to which she simply replied "It's on [class page]. Pls check.". Here's where I maybe fucked up, but I've been getting really sick of how rude she is over email, so I replied "Where. Please direct.".

No reply, so I emailed a follow up the next day. Then another one today, because today the assignment is due. I've asked others in my class and they have said that they were unsure as to the word count too, so I know it's not just me having missed something. Now I don't know what to do, if she's ignoring me then I won't know what the word count is and risk getting penalised on my assignment, but I also don't want to send ANOTHER email because at this point I don't think it's an issue of her having not seen it.

What would you do?

Posted May 8, 2026, 3:42 PM UTC

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