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Originally posted by accelgors
professor: we can meet at 11.
me: *waits at his office from 10:45-11:45*
professor: *finally shows up and says he has classes until 3*
me externally: oh ok that's fine
me internally: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHH
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Wtf are you serious? I would've lost it.
I went in to my advisor's office this morning for a second time trying to understand why I hadn't gotten an email to set up an appointment with him for over a week. I let him have it and he was trying to act boss in front of his student secretary. It was cute. I was just sipping my coffee until it was my turn to tell him how it wasn't satisfactory for a student to have to wait a week for an email response back. "I'm backed up with appointments at least a week. You should be glad it isn't a month like usual." "That makes perfect sense with the time of the year it is. My concern is getting an email response back to actually schedule an appointment which you actually do have time to respond to considering whenever I walked in, you were sitting down playing on your cell phone." He didn't like that.
It definitely wasn't a pleasant exchange but I needed to be effective and it worked. I got an email within 10 minutes of getting home with an appointment scheduled.