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jhocking:
I want to relate here the time back when my fiancee was in business school. One night she vented to me about how her partners for one group assignment were slacking and the assignment was due soon and they were behind, and I nodded along because yeah that's an annoying situation. At the end she took a deep breath and asked "so what should I do?" I was mildly startled by the question because to me the answer's obvious: "do the work."
I know you can feel resentful of lazy partners who are making you do more than they do, and you feel resentful about someone else getting credit for your efforts, but ultimately you need to stop worrying about them and do what's best for you. Yeah they'll get some credit, but the important thing is so will you.
Also, if it makes you feel any better know that it's actually possible for your partners in a group effort to do worse than nothing. I was once involved in a project where I finally just went ahead and did the stuff other people were supposed to be doing, and they got mad at me for doing their job. So not only were they not doing their part, I wasn't allowed to do it either.
Fortunately this wasn't a group assignment but rather a project outside of class so I was able to simply dissolve the team. Note that these were very talented friends of mine, guys who went on to work for Google and Microsoft, but the project was simply a lower priority for them than it was for me.
Lines:
Writing a recommendation letter for myself is weird. Especially for a professor who is an eccentric underground comics nerd. I'm so tempted to write, "Lindsey is awesome and knows her shit. The end," but that doesn't make a good letter. I wish it did though.
Also writing formal letters suckssssss. Do not like, this isn't what I want to do, I just want to make pretty things and stuff.
KvP:
I've got two letters of rec lined up, strong possibility for a third, but I need to narrow down my grad school options and get some sort of template going.
Lines:
Seriously, google how to write/plan rec letters. It was really helpful and I wish I'd done it a long time ago.
tania:
when i asked one of my professors for a recommendation letter for grad school back in 2010, he quite literally responded with a "oh, okay, what do you want me to say about you?" and then sat down and pretty much wrote it out right in front of me. about a week later he mailed me an extra copy of the letter in addition to the ones he sent out to the universities because for some reason or another he felt it was really important to be transparent and honest about the process, even though my other professors did no such thing and i never found out what they said about me and i don't think this is really a thing professors do. either way, it's been handy as a draft in case i ever need to write another one for any reason... that and it's just kind of cool to have a formal letter on hand telling you how awesome you are whenever you need cheering up.
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