*sigh*
some of you know that there was a job i applied for at the smithsonian about a month ago, and today i got a response. and those of you who remember college applications remember that the size of the envelope usually corresponds to how much they like you.
i got a VERY thin envelope. i don't know if they use special thin paper for rejection letters, but this was awful. It's a form with a line that has a checkmark on it saying that I don't meet the minimum requirements and then giving contact information because obviously i want to call the personnel contact woman and rehash EXACTLY WHY i didn't get the job. i'm guessing it's just one thing: i don't have a degree in hand right now, and thus cannot get to work right away. or that's what i'm going to tell myself unless proven otherwise.
i've never had to deal with flat out rejection like this before. in the past for grad school applications i either got in, or i had applied in january and bugged them every 3 weeks starting in mid-march, and then they couldn't find a better time to tell me that a) they had lost my first application, and b) that they were already sending out acceptances until the week or so before the last day to get your application in, meaning that i was put on the waitlist (before i was rejected but had already accepted elsewhere - a BETTER elsewhere if i might add). not that i'm bitter or anything. but i've never been rejected. this could take some getting used to.
(btw - i'm going to use the icon i specifically chose for sad occasions like this one, but i really think everyone should see my new default icon because it makes me want to cuddle something small.)
i got a VERY thin envelope. i don't know if they use special thin paper for rejection letters, but this was awful. It's a form with a line that has a checkmark on it saying that I don't meet the minimum requirements and then giving contact information because obviously i want to call the personnel contact woman and rehash EXACTLY WHY i didn't get the job. i'm guessing it's just one thing: i don't have a degree in hand right now, and thus cannot get to work right away. or that's what i'm going to tell myself unless proven otherwise.
i've never had to deal with flat out rejection like this before. in the past for grad school applications i either got in, or i had applied in january and bugged them every 3 weeks starting in mid-march, and then they couldn't find a better time to tell me that a) they had lost my first application, and b) that they were already sending out acceptances until the week or so before the last day to get your application in, meaning that i was put on the waitlist (before i was rejected but had already accepted elsewhere - a BETTER elsewhere if i might add). not that i'm bitter or anything. but i've never been rejected. this could take some getting used to.
(btw - i'm going to use the icon i specifically chose for sad occasions like this one, but i really think everyone should see my new default icon because it makes me want to cuddle something small.)