LJ and emails
Sep. 30th, 2005 09:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brigdhI have redesigned my LJ! I did this partly because it's been nearly a year since I did it the last time, and I was getting sick of the old design. Thus, I now have Gaiden goodness to look at while I peruse my flist for several hours a day.
But mainly I did it to procrastinate on any of the things I actually need to do, which at the moment consists of emailing professors. You see, I am applying to grad school. I have decided to write to various professors well-known for studying the topic I would like to study. This is a brillant plan, because not only can I make contact with them, hopefully making it more likely they will look upon me favorably when I apply to their schools, but I can ask them questions about what other schools and professors I should contact, what programs I should look into, any other advice they have to offer, etc, etc.
Unfortunately, the only thing I hate more than asking people for help is asking vaguely famous people I don't know for help. I possibly have self-reliance issues. So, I'm collecting a list of email addresses but not actually writing to any of them.
Redesigning your LJ is a great procrastination tool. I spend about five minutes doing the actual HTML (which tends to involve nothing more than adding an image to one of the existing styles, because I am not terribly creative), and then I play with the colors for as many hours as I can continue to derive entertainment value from the topic (#802A00? Too brown. #992A00? Too red. #902A00? Too brown. #9A2A00? Too red. Repeat infinitely). I reccommend it.
But mainly I did it to procrastinate on any of the things I actually need to do, which at the moment consists of emailing professors. You see, I am applying to grad school. I have decided to write to various professors well-known for studying the topic I would like to study. This is a brillant plan, because not only can I make contact with them, hopefully making it more likely they will look upon me favorably when I apply to their schools, but I can ask them questions about what other schools and professors I should contact, what programs I should look into, any other advice they have to offer, etc, etc.
Unfortunately, the only thing I hate more than asking people for help is asking vaguely famous people I don't know for help. I possibly have self-reliance issues. So, I'm collecting a list of email addresses but not actually writing to any of them.
Redesigning your LJ is a great procrastination tool. I spend about five minutes doing the actual HTML (which tends to involve nothing more than adding an image to one of the existing styles, because I am not terribly creative), and then I play with the colors for as many hours as I can continue to derive entertainment value from the topic (#802A00? Too brown. #992A00? Too red. #902A00? Too brown. #9A2A00? Too red. Repeat infinitely). I reccommend it.
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Date: 2005-10-01 02:30 am (UTC)OMG, I love you. This is so me. ROFL.
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Date: 2005-10-01 05:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-01 05:40 am (UTC)You see, I am applying to grad school.
Um...I should be doing that, too....Eep. Dun wanna!
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Date: 2005-10-02 03:29 am (UTC)Um...I should be doing that, too....Eep. Dun wanna!
That is *so* how I feel. But I'm terrified of procrastinating enough that I'll miss the deadlines and have to wait an entire year (which is totally possible, given my procrastinating skills), which would suck so badly.
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Date: 2005-10-02 01:45 am (UTC)Also, I wish you luck on your grad school applying escapades. *g*
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Date: 2005-10-02 03:30 am (UTC)And thank you! I shall have to update with regular dramatic stories of them- and given the way the first 24 hours since I've send the emails have gone, there will be plenty of dramatic stories.
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Date: 2005-10-02 04:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-03 12:14 am (UTC)