I had a somewhat weird time in college; I did running start for two years in highschool, stopped college for about a year and a half, finished my associates through community college (online classes cuz COVID) and then transferred as a junior last fall. I started my major over the summer and am on track to finish by spring 2024. I didn't have many opportunities to get to know many of my professors, and I was also super anxious about showing up to office hours without any real topic I needed to talk about.

Unfortunately, now I'm at a complete loss as to who I should reach out to for letters of recommendation for my grad school applications. I have two professors who I did get to know relatively well and have asked, but I need a third for one of my programs and could really use someone who's in the field I'm intending to go into, because for whatever reason the two professors I have in mind are both past english professors of mine, and I'm applying for a masters in mental health counseling program, so it's not totally related. I'm just at a loss because I really want to be applying for fall 2024 because I'll have to take a whole year off otherwise, but I have to have letters of recommendation by early January, so this quarter is my chance to connect with my professors.

Does anyone have advice on how to connect with professors? I feel weird about it because I feel like it seems like I'm just desperate for a letter of rec (which, yeah) but I do also just want to be able to talk to some people in my field and stuff. Any advice is greatly appreciated.