What I said, Part Deux



Prof ******,

OK, here is the story:

Prof. **** offered me a few days extension if I wanted it, earlier in May, until the 31st, and I assumed (wrongly, I'm sure) that he would handle the administrative details. I e-mailed him on Monday to say that I would like the extension, and that my thesis was finished, but before I handed it in that I would like to talk to him. He said to visit him Tuesday or Wednesday. I visited him on Wednesday morning, because I thought that he had handled the necessary details, and therefore I would hand in my thesis the next day, today. Unfortunately, he thought I meant that I had handed it in by the deadline itself when I sent him an e-mail, where I asked him about extending the deadline to the 31st. I would have waited all afternoon to see you if I could, but unfortunately I was required to work yesterday afternoon, and could not wait for a long time.

Anyways, the delay is now going through the right channels, which I would have no problems going through before, but, as I said, there was a problem between what I understood to be the case and what my promoter said.

As for visiting you earlier, I only read last week in an e-mail from the Institute that I should visit you if there was going to be a problem, and I didn’t think that it was the case that I needed to visit you, since, like I said, my assumption was that my promoter talked to the person responsible for deadlines.

Anyways, I appreciate your time invested into these matters. I’m sorry for the inconvenience. Thanks.


Sincerely,


Brennan Sarich


---And now, the paragraph I didn't include, because it was too controversial, and clearly would have put my promoter at fault. Whether that's fair or not, I am still unsure:

I wish I had a better explanation and that I was more active in pursuing and double-checking details, but I can't really offer a defense of that. What I can say is that I tried to do what I thought was most reasonable in this situation, and that I don't have a problem with deadlines, or this particular deadline, but only that I either misinterpreted what was said or took someone's word for something that was not actually possible. And that's what happened.



----So, now I wait. I have no idea what's going to happen, other than he's going to say, "no."

If that happens, I am SOOOOOOO going to take a three day break before I start block studying for my exams. I SOOOO am.

If he does say yes, I'll laugh. Because I wouldn't. I wouldn't at all.