Fellowship application - letters of recommendation advisor

[HGarland]

I am applying for a fellowship. The application calls for 2 letters of recommendation. Do you think that one must be from my advisor?

thank you,
H.G.

[mar30]

Unless there is a good reason to not include a letter of recommendation from your advisor, you should, i think. Chances are that the fellowship won't really care though. Do they specify who should write letters of recommendation?

[HGarland]

No they don't specify who the letter of recommendation should be from. However, my advisor has already written several for me and i feel like i can't keep asking him.

[sam]

Actually, if your professor has already written you recommendation letters for various things, it will probably be quite easy for him/her to put one together for you. The hardest part of writing a letter of recommendation for a student is writing a letter of recommendation for the first time. After that, you can just reformat it and update it. So, he or she probably wouldn't mind.