E-mail up your ass all polite and shit

Just read a brilliant article about the trend of e-mailing between college professors and students. I just finished a month of back-and-forth e-mails between chairs and advisors, living and dead, within my grad program, so I had particular interest in this article.

Just to be clear, e-mailing and writing letters with pen and paper, sweat and tears, should be just about the same thing in my opinion. When you're hitting up your buddy to see if he's got any extra trim for you this weekend, you probably go about it the same way whether you're hitting him with a text message or writing with pen and quill and sealing it with a wax stamp. When you're e-mailing your professor, your boss, your king, your preacher and even your pimp it's just common sense to get a little more formal. I do.

There's so much more to talk about. E-mail is direct and power players hate that they can be reached so easily. That's the real story



http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/21/education/21professors.html?_r=1&oref=slogin