the one with emailin' folk, yo

Feb 11, 2011 11:49

So I am supposed to contact One Of the Leading Dude In My Field today via email. This is super intimidating because oh Jesus, what if he thinks I'm a moron. So basically no different from sending any other email. But I digress. This still means I have to draft and see what The Indecisive Supervisors think ( Read more... )

uni, academia, being awesome, phd

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lite_bright February 11 2011, 02:05:09 UTC
Also, btw, your research is super interesting and not at all poorly referenced.

This is my favourite part. All of my draft emails are:

Professor Fuckface,

and then it goes downhill from there. OH SCHOOL.

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pixienamedkatie February 11 2011, 05:48:16 UTC
WHY DO WE DO THIS TO OURSELVES.

Anyway. From the actual draft I sent on, my supervisor deemed it necessary to correct my "grammatical infelicities". Wow, thanks Supervisor. I am not actually all that bad at grammarz. Or at least, not so bad as to need to call my stuff-ups "infelicities". Sigh.

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doxau February 11 2011, 04:27:57 UTC
Bahahah, love it. Excessive use of "like" is always welcome.

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pixienamedkatie February 11 2011, 05:48:56 UTC
Yeah. Valley girl is clearly the best dialect to communicate to professors in.

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