Posted by alexandra_k on January 30, 2004, at 19:26:35
In reply to Re: taking it too personally???, posted by Racer on January 30, 2004, at 18:32:07
Hmm. Thanks guys. He is indeed the academic sort. He is one of the best at what he does and the problem for me is that he fully knows it.
I think I will go with the email option. Unfortunately the reference I was wanting is one that I never get to see so I figure that I will be fairly upfront.
e.g. 'I understand that I only worked with you for a couple of months and as such you don't know me very well. (bit of a prattle about how I worked really hard to come up to speed and wrote a good??? paper on what I previously knew nothing about)... I appreciate that people back home can write lovely raves about how wonderful I am but the selectors do not know them. The selectors do know you, on the other hand but unfortunately you are not in the position to be able to rave about me which I fully understand.
I would like to ask you to write me a reference. But before you decide whether you will do this or not pretend that you are me and think about which will be the best for me with respect to getting in. Would you like to write me a reference, or do you think I am better off asking people back home? Thanks for your time blah blah blah.
Sound good???
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