Facebooking prospective professors rather than emailing them

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InquilineKea
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Facebooking prospective professors rather than emailing them

Post by InquilineKea » Tue Mar 08, 2011 10:58 pm

Yes, I know, it's a *very* crazy idea. :p But, you know, you might actually be very surprised.

It probably has a higher chance of actually working when it comes with professors who openly embrace the blogosphere, like Sean Carroll.

Has anyone else tried this?

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Re: Facebooking prospective professors rather than emailing them

Post by negru » Tue Mar 08, 2011 11:18 pm

Nah I use vampirefreaks.com for that

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Re: Facebooking prospective professors rather than emailing them

Post by TheBeast » Tue Mar 08, 2011 11:35 pm

InquilineKea wrote:
Has anyone else tried this?
Are you implying that you've done this?

Side-note: one of my friends has Carroll as one of his Facebook friends and he usually posts some pretty funny replies to my friend's status updates.

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Re: Facebooking prospective professors rather than emailing them

Post by CarlBrannen » Wed Mar 09, 2011 12:04 am

My sister lets her students facebook her. Hilarity ensues when they make up excuses for late homework that conflict with facebook entries such as photos of their wild party.

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Re: Facebooking prospective professors rather than emailing them

Post by HappyQuark » Wed Mar 09, 2011 12:20 am

InquilineKea wrote:Yes, I know, it's a *very* crazy idea. :p But, you know, you might actually be very surprised.

It probably has a higher chance of actually working when it comes with professors who openly embrace the blogosphere, like Sean Carroll.

Has anyone else tried this?
Ugggghhhhh, I hate the word blogosphere. Why is it that an artificially delineated piece of the internet needs some special and ridiculous sounding term to describe it. A group of forums isn't referred to as the "forum scene", a collection of wikis isn't called the "wiki-space" and social networks aren't dubbed the "social web-er-verse".

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Re: Facebooking prospective professors rather than emailing them

Post by bfollinprm » Wed Mar 09, 2011 6:46 am

TheBeast wrote:
Side-note: one of my friends has Carroll as one of his Facebook friends and he usually posts some pretty funny replies to my friend's status updates.
Same here. As a result he always pops up in the "people you may know" section. So tempting!

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Re: Facebooking prospective professors rather than emailing them

Post by bfollinprm » Wed Mar 09, 2011 7:29 am

HappyQuark wrote: A group of forums isn't referred to as the "forum scene", a collection of wikis isn't called the "wiki-space" and social networks aren't dubbed the "social web-er-verse".
copy and paste this to 4chan, and it will be so.

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Re: Facebooking prospective professors rather than emailing them

Post by twistor » Wed Mar 09, 2011 11:05 am

bfollinprm wrote:
HappyQuark wrote: A group of forums isn't referred to as the "forum scene", a collection of wikis isn't called the "wiki-space" and social networks aren't dubbed the "social web-er-verse".
copy and paste this to 4chan, and it will be so.
bump

newfags can't triforce

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Re: Facebooking prospective professors rather than emailing them

Post by negru » Wed Mar 09, 2011 12:40 pm


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am i doin it rite

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Re: Facebooking prospective professors rather than emailing them

Post by twistor » Wed Mar 09, 2011 3:10 pm

noh :/

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Re: Facebooking prospective professors rather than emailing them

Post by TheBeast » Wed Mar 09, 2011 9:04 pm

This is why we can't have nice things.

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Re: Facebooking prospective professors rather than emailing them

Post by HappyQuark » Wed Mar 09, 2011 11:10 pm

negru wrote:
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am i doin it rite
Image

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Re: Facebooking prospective professors rather than emailing them

Post by YodaT » Thu Mar 10, 2011 2:47 am

negru wrote:
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am i doin it rite
What... are you 14?

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Re: Facebooking prospective professors rather than emailing them

Post by twistor » Thu Mar 10, 2011 1:35 pm

YodaT wrote:
negru wrote:
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am i doin it rite
What... are you 14?
*** or gtfo

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Re: Facebooking prospective professors rather than emailing them

Post by negru » Fri Mar 11, 2011 9:59 pm

TheBeast wrote:This is why we can't have nice things.
Sorry, but the PhysicsGRE forum is a troll eat troll jungle.



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