I found a funny cartoon about grad students sending emails

[i_like_snow]

ok i thought you might like this comic I found that makes fun of us when we send an email to a Prof. i was going to copy + paste it on here but the text was too small so u have to visit the site k?
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1047

Comments

[intextrovert]

Ha- so true! Do they know my advisor? All his emails fit on one line. It's like he's challenged himself to use as few words as possible. Makes mine seem uptight and formal.

The Q

[i_like_snow]

oh i want to say that i have to add a question here because this might get deleted cause its not related to applying to grad school (i read the rules like my friend on here suggested)

so the Q is: do you ever have a hard time writing an email to a prof when u wanna ask them something about your LOR or anything related to your app?

[purenoumena]

I sent this to one of my professors a few weeks ago after we had a minor miscommunication via email and she expressed to me how much e-communication frustrated her sometimes. I sent her this email and thanked her for being a muuuuuch easier proff to talk to than this guy.

[i_like_snow]

ur lucky cause my profs are mean and im scared to email them sometimes

[sensaes]

if u write ur emails like this id b scared 2 get 1

[tisiphone]

omg u dun understan its a conshus choice to not be formal on the internets. who needs speling or grammer?

[endxgame]

Woah what is this PhD comics things? I've never heard of it! It must be totally new! Thanks for the heads up, endsindillusion!

[homericlaughter]

lol

[wakemexsoftly]

at least the endsindillusion account had funny, rambling, incoherent posts to her main journal.

this iteration isn't even TRYING!

[aonde]

I luled

[homericlaughter]

i_like_snow, you're kind of over-posting. I don't think there's an official community rule or anything, but if you could limit yourself to a post every three days or so (1-2 a week), I think that would leave some more airtime for other members of the community to pose questions.

I'm not a mod, so it's just a suggestion.

[i_like_snow]

ok ya if u want

[i_like_snow]

homericlaughter i took off the post from academicsanon (the other Community) because u and some other ppl seemed like they were upset k?

[homericlaughter]

Just an advisory for the future, a_a doesn't allow people to delete their posts after a number of comments have been made. I quote from the community rules