Yes!!!

[CityGal]

It is official. I have all the components necessary for my graduate school applications. Both of the recommendation letters, CV, the application forms, transcripts, statement of purpose and now all I have left to do is package them up and send them off. I am excited, nervous, terrified, and proud. Do I mail or submit them online? It has been a long time coming, moments of being prepared and unprepared, but now I am ready. Phew. God I am slow and love to procrastinate! Life always gives you unexpected surprises. I was feeling so lost and lonely last night and now it is like life is telling me where to turn. THANK YOU!


Now if I can just harness this motivation for later on.

[red]

good luck!

[Feverish]

congrats on getting it together. good luck!

[biodork]

Good luck :) I just finished all mine. Except the final person doing my recommendation hasn't sent out anything yet. She at least hasn't done my online ones. Kinda making me nervous. 2 deadlines are the 31st.

Although maybe she sent some out, because I already have an interview with one of the schools, who is going to fly me out there (lol WVU, and I live in VA like 3 hours away by driving, but I don't wanna drive by myself out there) and put me up in a nice hotel. Sweet. I'm excited.

Ok sorry to get in on this. But I do know how you feel about the being done! (Or close to it) :)

[CityGal]

Congrats, Bio! It is so excited to be flown out somewhere all expenses paid. Once a big company flew me out to Boston for an interview, I felt like such a hot shot and knew that eventually one day I wanted to live like that. It was so thrilling. Good luck with your apps. Send the person a little reminder about the deadline. Also, are you sending out thank you notes? I was planning to send it to both of my recommenders with perhaps a little thank you gift. Is this too much or will the card suffice?

[biodork]

Well, because I know my recommenders so well I'm not going to send out notes. It was definitely less formal. Although I just went through this huge ordeal this morning and I ended up switching the one recommender that hadn't done anything yet. My former boss (also one person writing a recommendation) told me to switch to someone else because she didn't think the last person was going to get to them. So I go through everything to switch, my former boss asked someone for me who I also sorta worked with before (and who is actually higher up than the person I dropped) and he is going to write them.

I just feel like an ass because I never actually asked when she was going to do them. I just figured she'd get them done within a few weeks. Not 5 days before the deadline. And she emailed me within half an hour of me emailing her to let her know I was going to have someone else do the last recommendations to tell me she was planning on working on them next week. Aaaah! She said she was busy, but so were the other two people. She should have explained it. I'm sure she remembers trying to get her recommendations out for school and how nerve-wracking it is.

So yeah that's my long ass story for the day. I need to go call the other schools who have mail-in forms and let them know about the change.

[CityGal]

Well, because I know my recommenders so well I'm not going to send out notes. It was definitely less formal. Although I just went through this huge ordeal this morning and I ended up switching the one recommender that hadn't done anything yet. My former boss (also one person writing a recommendation) told me to switch to someone else because she didn't think the last person was going to get to them. So I go through everything to switch, my former boss asked someone for me who I also sorta worked with before (and who is actually higher up than the person I dropped) and he is going to write them.

I just feel like an ass because I never actually asked when she was going to do them. I just figured she'd get them done within a few weeks. Not 5 days before the deadline. And she emailed me within half an hour of me emailing her to let her know I was going to have someone else do the last recommendations to tell me she was planning on working on them next week. Aaaah! She said she was busy, but so were the other two people. She should have explained it. I'm sure she remembers trying to get her recommendations out for school and how nerve-wracking it is.

So yeah that's my long ass story for the day. I need to go call the other schools who have mail-in forms and let them know about the change.

That sounds insane. My recommenders asked me when I needed it by and gave me an honest opinion on when they could have it done. One of them took longer than expect but she got it done. Wish you luck. I guess stress on them the importance of this. Kill them with kindness or something.

[biodork]

That sounds insane. My recommenders asked me when I needed it by and gave me an honest opinion on when they could have it done. One of them took longer than expect but she got it done. Wish you luck. I guess stress on them the importance of this. Kill them with kindness or something.
Yeah I listed all the deadlines for my recommenders. 3 of them were due in 2007, so not a big deal. But 2 are the 31. That was just cutting it too close for me, and because of the waiting I felt like it might be a problem so when my old boss said she'd ask someone else for me I thought it was the best solution at the time. And my old boss said she trusts the guy to get them done on time. He said next week so I believe him. My old recommender said next week, but how can I know when she's already put it off for almost a month?

Ugh I still feel like a jerk though. My bf thinks her email sounded like she was relieved to not have to do them anymore at least.

Yeah this is really weighing on my mind right now.