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Re: Blog Thread IIIa : Look Who's Blogging Now
öde:
I think I just fixed 4 months worth of disk I/O errors buy unplugging my SATA cable and plugging it back in again. On one hand, this is great news, on the other, AAAAARGH! I must have re-installed ubuntu 5 times and fscked it 50 times to get it to work, and now I've put a fresh install of crunchbang on here and found out I didn't need to.
nufan:
--- Quote from: Linds on 25 Feb 2011, 12:38 ---Why is it so hard to ask for recommendation letters? Why why why. I mean, this is not like asking someone out. This is going to really hurt if one of my professors says no. :c
Also I want to smack myself for not asking for these letters a month ago.
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Holy shit this. They're the only thing stopping me from sending off for my masters course (the application for which I started in, like, December) and I have no idea why I only asked my prof's a fortnight ago.
I SUCK
KvP:
Way I did it is to approach your profs about what programs they suggest as far as grad schools go. Smooth transition.
Katherine:
--- Quote from: Cartilage Head on 24 Feb 2011, 22:31 ---I'm kind of trying to write a Golden Girls Broadway musical because I think it is the most important idea ever.
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Oh man could you please? I would totally go see this and I know a bunch of people who would go too!
Papersatan:
--- Quote from: Linds on 25 Feb 2011, 12:38 ---Why is it so hard to ask for recommendation letters? Why why why. I mean, this is not like asking someone out. This is going to really hurt if one of my professors says no. :c
Also I want to smack myself for not asking for these letters a month ago.
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I was terrified to ask too. Especially since I had been out of school for a semester already. "What if the reply with 'I don't know who you are!'?" Really Kat, the big girl with the flipping pink hair, from last semester... they are going to forget? Also I did a disappointing job on a HUGE paper for one of them in my last semester, but she was bes qualified to talk about my passion for my chosen subject. I was so worried she would reply with "In light of your final paper, no can do." She didn't though.
I think professors are used to people timidly asking at the last minute.
Unrelated, I reeeeeally want a baby right now. I mean not now really. It is a bad time, I have no money, grad school blah blah. When I was going to go for a PhD the idea of having time or money for a child was so far away that I had pushed it into the "maybe someday, no need to think about it category" but now I have so much more hope of having a career in the next few years that I have to start thinking about it for real now. Also it helps that I have spent some time with my 2 year old niece recently. She loves me, and is adorable and the best. She has been making my ovaries nudge me and say "eeehh, we could do that!" But lets get into and then out of a graduate program before we give in to them, eh?
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