Six E-mails
Sep. 6th, 2005 11:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ziasudraToday is a day of e-mails. Well, I receive e-mails everyday, but today I received a bunch of meaningful ones. So here’s my post, a summary of various e-mails I received over the past day or so, in no particular order.
E-mail #1
Got an e-mail at 10:22 --> “Dear Bradley … Unfortunately, we had a large number of applicants this term, and we will be unable to offer you a position at this time.”
Huh? As far as I know, I answer to Ziasudra and a whole bunch of other names, but Bradley is definitely not among my list of real names and aliases.
E-mail #2
Then came E-mail Number Two, sometime after 11:00. It turned out that I had received Bradley’s e-mail by mistake. The one that was meant for me never got sent out. Of course, I still didn’t get the internship, but at least I cleared up the fact that my name is not Bradley ;p.
I’m actually glad that I got that first e-mail, because ^_^;; it means that I wasn’t the only one who got rejected, which for some reason was very comforting to me. lol, that’s me—always afraid that in whatever I do, I’d end up in last place. I’m usually content if I’m not dead last.
E-mail #3
So one of the classes I signed up for was “Media History: Past & Present.” It sounded okay when I first registered for it back in spring, but the more I thought about it, the more unenthusiastic I became at the prospect of sitting through that course. I thought over, and decided that I really rather take the “Opendemocracy.net” course, in which the class would get to publish its own issue of Opendemocracy.net at the end of the semester! And even better—the subject of our class’ issue will be on illegal immigration, something that’s living-and-breathing relevant to life in NYC (and life in LA too when I visit home).
I got an e-mail from the journalism department this morning—good news. I’m now officially in the opendemocracy.net class. I’m so excited ^_^
E-mail #4
An e-mail from a stranger showed up in my Inbox this afternoon. The person who wrote me was someone who’s been displaced due to Hurricane Katrina. Through one way or another, the person found my posting about the compilation project for a masterlist of colleges and universities that accept displaced college students over at Wikinews.
The list is still growing, and it’s taken me all day to merge my,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
minervacat’s, and poisonwithjest’s separate lists into the masterlist. At times I wondered why I was even doing it. Can’t someone just visit the Web site of their college of choice directly for special enrollment info?
It was good to get that e-mail. So even if in the end only one person reads it, the fact that this one person found it helpful in the midst of the stressful situation s/he’s in made this joint corroborative successful in my mind.
E-mail #5
Got a bunch of responses back for the textbook savings challenge that I issued yesterday. Whee!
E-mail #6
Remember that Chinese guy who was staying with us a week or so ago? Well, he’s well settled in a college somewhere in New York now, but he’s not close enough to come visit me everyday. He sent me an e-mail tonight, with pictures that he took of me, Girl Cousin, Boy Cousin, and my aunt and uncle. He says he misses us. Aww…
E-mails are cool. Well, off to Wiki some more!
.
E-mail #1
Got an e-mail at 10:22 --> “Dear Bradley … Unfortunately, we had a large number of applicants this term, and we will be unable to offer you a position at this time.”
Huh? As far as I know, I answer to Ziasudra and a whole bunch of other names, but Bradley is definitely not among my list of real names and aliases.
E-mail #2
Then came E-mail Number Two, sometime after 11:00. It turned out that I had received Bradley’s e-mail by mistake. The one that was meant for me never got sent out. Of course, I still didn’t get the internship, but at least I cleared up the fact that my name is not Bradley ;p.
I’m actually glad that I got that first e-mail, because ^_^;; it means that I wasn’t the only one who got rejected, which for some reason was very comforting to me. lol, that’s me—always afraid that in whatever I do, I’d end up in last place. I’m usually content if I’m not dead last.
E-mail #3
So one of the classes I signed up for was “Media History: Past & Present.” It sounded okay when I first registered for it back in spring, but the more I thought about it, the more unenthusiastic I became at the prospect of sitting through that course. I thought over, and decided that I really rather take the “Opendemocracy.net” course, in which the class would get to publish its own issue of Opendemocracy.net at the end of the semester! And even better—the subject of our class’ issue will be on illegal immigration, something that’s living-and-breathing relevant to life in NYC (and life in LA too when I visit home).
I got an e-mail from the journalism department this morning—good news. I’m now officially in the opendemocracy.net class. I’m so excited ^_^
E-mail #4
An e-mail from a stranger showed up in my Inbox this afternoon. The person who wrote me was someone who’s been displaced due to Hurricane Katrina. Through one way or another, the person found my posting about the compilation project for a masterlist of colleges and universities that accept displaced college students over at Wikinews.
The list is still growing, and it’s taken me all day to merge my,
minervacat’s, and poisonwithjest’s separate lists into the masterlist. At times I wondered why I was even doing it. Can’t someone just visit the Web site of their college of choice directly for special enrollment info?It was good to get that e-mail. So even if in the end only one person reads it, the fact that this one person found it helpful in the midst of the stressful situation s/he’s in made this joint corroborative successful in my mind.
E-mail #5
Got a bunch of responses back for the textbook savings challenge that I issued yesterday. Whee!
E-mail #6
Remember that Chinese guy who was staying with us a week or so ago? Well, he’s well settled in a college somewhere in New York now, but he’s not close enough to come visit me everyday. He sent me an e-mail tonight, with pictures that he took of me, Girl Cousin, Boy Cousin, and my aunt and uncle. He says he misses us. Aww…
E-mails are cool. Well, off to Wiki some more!
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Date: 2005-09-06 09:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-07 08:21 am (UTC)By the way, I'm going to have your short story done sometime this afternoon. My first class starts this evening, and who knows how swamped with work I'll be from that point on. So I'm going to get yours done before I have to tackle my professors' assignments :)
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Date: 2005-09-07 11:44 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-06 11:12 pm (UTC)I'm glad to hear that people are finding the list useful. I hope this person finds somewhere for the semester. Had they found the list first, and then found you through it? I was wondering as well, and this is a good sign.
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Date: 2005-09-07 08:33 am (UTC)I believe that person found one of my announcements for the Wikinews list that I posted in various comms yesterday. But I've sinced tried to branch out on "advertisement." I included the link at an appropriate place in the main Katrina article over at Wikipedia, and I've contacted the organizer of KatrinaCollegeStudents.org in hope that they will link up to us.
Alchemy_gryph's post also made it to
I suppose contact could work the other way around too (seeing the list then contacting one of us). That's why I name-stamped my latest comments in the discussion page, just to make sure that if someone has a dire need to contact the updaters, there's at least the option of leaving a message via Wikinews.
Good sign indeed :)
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Date: 2005-09-07 06:01 am (UTC)On the userinfo page you mention that "homework posts" are not welcome but get deleted immediately..
Uhmm.. about two years ago, I wrote a (very short and only partly academic, i.e. we didn't have to use/quote from books for it) paper for university, but I never handed it in. I'd still like to hand it in (and I guess it would still be possible), however, I wrote it in English - and I'm not a native speaker of English. And while there are quite a few native speakers on my flist, many of whom also beta fanfic for others, I couldn't really ask any of them (I think I tried once, but didn't get any response), because they 1) don't have anything to do with academic writing and 2) aren't really familiar with the topic (media & gender studies, for it's an analysis of a music video), so they probably wouldn't have been of great help.
Now I wanted to ask if it'd be ok to post my paper on the community for feedback (on both my English *and* style/structure/argumentation etc. - because this was also the first time I wrote a (kind of) academic paper in English)?!
(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-07 06:06 am (UTC)Soo, uhm, never mind my comment, I'll go and find the moderators of academics_anon now. :)
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Date: 2005-09-07 08:42 am (UTC)Incidentally, I'm a beta for a bunch of people. If after you ask the people at academics_anon you still find yourself in need of a look through, I wouldn't mind reading your paper, though my feedback would necessarily be more on grammar than on the validity of your specific arguments.
Well, good luck!