1. ⛔️ Getting the professor's name wrong while copy-pasting one email to several professors (try not to copy-paste in the first place, your chances of acceptance do not increase with the number of emails you send.)
2. 🪄Not rechecking email and documents for spelling and grammar mistakes. Grammarly is free, use it.
3. 📝 Not referencing a specific publication of the professor or a specific one of your own publications to narrow down the interest and make the conversation less generic. You can always figure out specifics later but your first email needs to grab the attention of the professor and it has less of a chance if it looks exactly like 50 other emails they are getting.
4. 📧 Making the email too long and including "fluff", irrelevant, boring details. Show them you respect their time.
5. ⁉️Not asking a question about the position you're applying for. You double your chances of getting noticed/remembered in a pile of emails by simply asking a relevant and well-thought-out question. Notice any missing information in the advertised position, or look for anything that needs further clarification and then ask about it. We genuinely feel compelled to answer questions when something is unclear/missing in our explanations, and that makes us likely to engage in a conversation.

Best of luck to you all with your higher education applications 👍

❤My Favourite Things

🎬YouTube Video:

AI created this image from scratch using only “Astronaut riding a horse” words as input.

Details 👇

📕Book:

Started reading Pat Flynn’s “Superfans” again and this time I’m liking it more.

📝Quote:

If you ever find that you’re the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.

Steal Like an Artist - Austin Kleon

🔍I’m Learning:

I am learning how to read and understand 3GPP specifications. Any tips? Reading word documents without the ability to click links to references is such a nuisance. I thought we were living in a digital age?

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