Posted by alexandra_k on October 27, 2004, at 20:23:11
In reply to recommendation letters » alexandra_k, posted by SadWren on October 26, 2004, at 23:39:57
Thanks! I am a bit worried about who to ask for referees. I need three, but my department here is small and there is only one highly suitable person for me to ask (my supervisor). He has done a lot of those for me in the past with scholarship applications etc, so I don't have a problem asking him.
Then theres a guy (American funnily enough) from psych. who has agreed to be a referee for me. He knows what the forms are like, and he has told me to go along and have a chat to him about what sorts of things he should put down etc. So that should be ok. Known him for 7 years now.
But the other one... There isn't really any one else in my dept. who is suitable. One person who I've known for 7 years is still waiting for her PhD to be conferred, and the person who is most in synch with me only arrived maybe 3 or 4 or 5 months ago. I was trying to get a reference out of someone who I studied under on a research scholarship last summer (don't know if anyone remembers the problems I had with him!) - but he has been most incommunicative. Ive sent him critiques that I have done on his papers and he hasn't dignified me with a response all year. Shame on him. Really.
But not sure what to do. I guess I'll try to chase him up, otherwise I am stuck with someone who either (a) hasn't known me for long or (b) isn't really suitably qualified.
Wanna write me a reference Dr B?
(Just kidding :-))
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