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human
How often is too often to visit a professor's office hours?

I am currently an undergrad in the humanities planning on going to grad school next year. I go to office hours a lot, and I need you kind internet strangers either to soothe my self-consciousness about how frequently I go or to dissuade me from perpetuating a potentially bad habit. 

Maybe this is a dumb question. I like office hours because they give me a chance to ask more nuanced questions and for my professors to give more in-depth and more nuanced answers that usually stray away from the points they try to make in lecture. I also like using office hours because asking questions there does not interrupt others in my classes by drawing attention away from the class and toward myself.

If it's a professor I really enjoy, I like to go to office hours usually once a month. This culminates in usually 3-4 office visits throughout the semester. I feel that this keeps me on track in the class and allows me to pick up extra information or ideas that I wouldn't get just from lecture.

When I go, I usually ask questions about a comment a professor made on a paper, or I ask for clarification about something they said in class or about the readings. I also sometimes ask for random advice about things like grad school or writing or life in general.

**tl:dr: I go to office hours 3-4 times a semester. Do my professors secretly hate me for bothering them too frequently?**
gpt
3-4 times a semester is certainly not unreasonable. There are students who go to office hours every week, and as long as they're not using office hours as a substitute for also trying things on their own, that's fine too.