Have you ever Googled your own name? How did you feel about the results?
Submitted by elen.
I have googled my name. There is usually no/1 other people/person with my name who pops up, other then me. Which is funny, because I'm certainly related to a few. Most of the lnks and me and are convention related, which isn't surprising really.
Ha! Just looked again and there is a limerick, and really I'm sure people could think it was me but, wasn't while written by someone with my name. Everything else on the first page of results is me and all but one is concom/guest related (which is that I was nominated for a Sam for 'When Winter's Past' at Dixseption, which makes me all warm and fuzzy thinking about.
Looking at the second page the is one other person with my name, and one with my name contained in theirs that aren't me and lots of separated things, along with me a bit. This really appears to be it.
Yet I keep getting told a relation with my name is published under it. Ho hum.
So, in the first week of term I wrote the first draft of my personal statement for university. This is early/mid-september. I gave this to my tutor to look over. I waited, begining of term is busy, I didn't want to rush him. Then, I did ask a few times and he said he would. Then about 3 weeks after I'd given it to him I asked and he said he didn't remember it and had lost it.
They don't want people asking for lecturer references until their personal statement is nearly done. So I asked for one that was special circumstances, but waited for others. Despite this, I did get confirmation from Lecturer's that they had been done two weeks ago. Before even that I had discussed with my tutor what would go into his reference for me.
Today I look at the thing and discover he hasn't sent off my application yet. and with what things looks like this will mean I am hugely less likely to get in most of the places I have applied. I am really not exagerating.
Grr.
