Get recommendations for graduate schools while not in school?

[PhillipWong]

I graduated in 2010 with a degree in math. Now I wish to go to graduate school, but I have no one I can think of that I would help me write a academic recommendation. I never build any relationships with professors when I was in college. From reading what I can online, I am told that I should take a course, or two to build new relationships with professors, but for me it is hard to run off, because I still have work, and job to do.

 

[Vanadium 50]

You need letters from your old professors. It may not be the ideal situation, but you don't seem to have any alternatives - the letters have to come from people who went to grad school themselves.

 

[PhilosophyofPhysics]

I'm in a similar situation, but two of my physics professors have retired. :(

 

[dx]

Are there any courses that you did particularly well in? You could ask the instructors of those courses to write you a recommendation, even if you didn't build a relationship with them.

And what about your personal tutor? I don't know about other countries, but all undergraduate students in the UK have personal tutors.