Graduate School Flail

[ceitfianna]

Help me flist, these two friends came over for dinner and first off I found out that because I went to Michigan, apparently I wasn't going to be given a chance to make this artist's business card. The reason it hadn't been done before, he hadn't gotten the work scanned and to me so that's a chance for about fifty dollars I might have earned gone.

Then I'm talking about my application and he says well you have to be sure. At this point I have almost everything on this online application filled out though the recommendation bit is a little odd and I keep worrying about it.

My transcript hasn't arrived from NZ yet and there's only so much I can do for that and all the recommenders are going to mail their letters in their own time but I can at least tell them the deadline and hope that hurries them.

Should I be worried that all these pieces of information won't be there right on the dot on the date? I emailed the people in admissions at Michigan but my good mood is ruined and I'm kind of freaking out, help.

Also instead of going up and enjoying the sunset like I wanted to, I'm down here since I wanted to send the folks in Michigan an email at once and I'll call them tomorrow just to double check, but god damn it, I was feeling good!

Comments

[cursedpanda.livejournal.com]

I don't think that's true, the contact not meaning anything. Most university staff are impressed by students/potential students who are willing to contact and stay in contact with them, especially through problems or hitches in the process. That's always been my experience, anyway, and I say this as a person who ended up calling my college nearly every day for a month trying to iron out financial glitches as an incoming freshman.

Me, I say you can totally do it, and don't be afraid to "bug" them.

[ceitfianna]

Thanks, I'm not sure what he was thinking. He's a philosophy professor for context.

[cursedpanda.livejournal.com]

Meh, those philosophy professors. Always have their heads in the clouds with folks like Aristotle and Socrates. Pff.

...I kid, I kid. But yeah, there's no telling what he was thinking. I think you're super-fine.

[ceitfianna]

:-) Its all good and thanks again. Hee Robin in the sky.