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we HEART professor man
so i sent an e-mail to the professor i worked for at UVa, and with whom i studied the most while i was there as well, as it happened, asking for a rec for this scholarship program (locally, "award scheme") that would knock my fee liability down from Overseas Student (way expensive) to Home Student (a mere pittance, relatively speaking). i didn't think i was eligible for it, as mine is what they call a taught degree rather than a degree by research -- but since i'm writing a thesis (locally, a "dissertation" -- a thesis is for a PhD; go figure), turns out i am eligible after all.
deadline is january 31, with a preference for january 24.
so, aiee. sent this e-mail on sunday. fortunately, the application is available online, so he can print out the one page i'd otherwise have sent him and send it directly, rather than waiting for me to send the form in the mail. i apologized for the late notice, and gave the URL and the deadline as january 31. didn't hear from him yesterday, obviously, since it was MLK day (though i had a panicked few minutes when i thought "oh, god, what if he's on sabbatical, just my luck", before my inner monologue had a good laugh at itself for thinking such a thing, since this is the guy who never takes a sabbatical -- hasn't in thirty years), but got an e-mail this morning:
I'll do my best to get it in the mail by the 31st. I might make it by the 24th (the preferred date according to the cover letter, which says the 31st is also OK).
yay, yay, yay. of course there's no guarantee i'll get this thing -- my chances are something like 1 in 4, i think? -- but it certainly won't happen without the rec letter. woo-hoo yay professor!
(a classmate saw me filling out one of the forms before syntax yesterday, and said, pleasantly, "ooh, what are you applying for?" i told her, but i added, this being grad school, where the next thing after learning what someone else is applying for is deciding whether you want to apply for it yourself, "you can't have one -- you're already a Home Student." which she conceded was true. [g])
deadline is january 31, with a preference for january 24.
so, aiee. sent this e-mail on sunday. fortunately, the application is available online, so he can print out the one page i'd otherwise have sent him and send it directly, rather than waiting for me to send the form in the mail. i apologized for the late notice, and gave the URL and the deadline as january 31. didn't hear from him yesterday, obviously, since it was MLK day (though i had a panicked few minutes when i thought "oh, god, what if he's on sabbatical, just my luck", before my inner monologue had a good laugh at itself for thinking such a thing, since this is the guy who never takes a sabbatical -- hasn't in thirty years), but got an e-mail this morning:
I'll do my best to get it in the mail by the 31st. I might make it by the 24th (the preferred date according to the cover letter, which says the 31st is also OK).
yay, yay, yay. of course there's no guarantee i'll get this thing -- my chances are something like 1 in 4, i think? -- but it certainly won't happen without the rec letter. woo-hoo yay professor!
(a classmate saw me filling out one of the forms before syntax yesterday, and said, pleasantly, "ooh, what are you applying for?" i told her, but i added, this being grad school, where the next thing after learning what someone else is applying for is deciding whether you want to apply for it yourself, "you can't have one -- you're already a Home Student." which she conceded was true. [g])
"Award scheme"