FCK! FCK! **** **** ****! I have a sudden attack suicidal ideation. I may have ruined an opportunity forever. I emailed a very famous and well respected criminologist at a university I will most likely never get into, and now definitely never will because of my idiocy and trigger happy “send” finger. I am no good to even be a bloody secretary, so poor are my communication skills. What the feck do I do with this inane and repetitive email. He is such a great writer, he waxes poetic on murder like a woman poet, I love his writing and then I send him this bloody **** to “impress”. Feck. Someone please shoot me quickly.
Dr. ****,
Thank you for getting back to me so quickly. I am
currently looking for research experience in law and
directly related to criminology, and also exploring
your research. If it is okay with you, near the end of
this year (around October or so perhaps) I will mail
my resume, references, writing sample, and
descriptions of experience (and anything else you
might require). Once you have that in hand, at your
convenience I would like the opportunity of an
in-person interview with you in LA and you can
determine in person whether you think this will work
out. Please let me know if that would work out.
The email is short and to the point. There's nothing wrong with it and im sure once you show him your samples , resume and so on in october he will grant you the interview :).
In the meanwhile, try to establish a good relationship with him. When he responds back ask him if he would mind you communicating with him from time to time. University professors generally are very open to such communication and ultimately building up a relationship with them based on academia helps a lot.
Being in academia, I can tell you that profs like succint emails. We read through three dozen a day! and if this guy is that popular, he may be going through even more.
So worry not - it'll be alright inshaAllah. Good Luck with everything.
Don't laugh at my misery. I am currently weeping blood and mournfully clutching his much defiled (notes all over) book to my chest. I was intimidated. So what is damage control strategy? Will he never supervise me for graduate school? I wanted him because... he is perfect more blood tears
It sounds like you two had been corresponding before this note. Presuming this is true, the door was opened, and this is simply a follow up. If this fellow is as famous as you say, it may well be that he reads hundreds of emails per day. More than likely he will appreciate the brevity, and respect the fact that you were direct, to the point, and importantly did not not waste his time. Business emails are frequently cryptic, almost to the point of being terse.
The mail was not the best you could have sent.
If short and to the point is what profs like then your's was repetitive.
Saving grace is that is appears he didn't really notice.....or care.
Stop fretting and start collecting your samples. And make sure they aren't similar in style.
