No, definitely not. I would really like to work with this specific professor and want to send an email like this to maybe 5 professors at the absolute maximum. Do you have any advice to make it more personalized?
Below is an email that I am planning to send to someone that I would very much like to work for as a graduate student. Are there any red flags I should avoid? Anything else in particular I should mention? Thanks in advance.
Hello Dr. [REDACTED],
I am an undergraduate physics major (junior)...
I applied to:
NASA SARP (rejected 2/27)
Michigan State (accepted 2/21, not yet committed)
JLab/ODU
UIUC
Deadline for accepting MSU is March 6th, I'm hoping to get an acceptance from UIUC before then but I'm not going to risk missing my chance at MSU for it.
Only really in that when we study and work together we tend to goof off a bit and have tangential or unrelated conversations. But I don't mind these delays. The socialization is fun and important for mental health. Truthfully, I don't even mind when they ask me questions, after all, teaching...
As I'm sure isn't uncommon among physics majors, I was a lonely kid. I hardly had any friends in high school, and didn't really find a friend group until my second semester of freshman year in college. This small group fell apart when one dropped out and moved back to Texas and the other two...
When it comes to completing homework all they seem to care about is getting the right answer and being done with it. I mean I get it, physics is time intensive and we're all doing the same work for the same classes (me with some extra actually) . But if you don't want to actually put the work...
I'm currently taking a sophomore-level circuits/electronics lab. My lab partner just transferred from out of state in January, and is already probably in the top three in our class in general. He does very well in the two classes I share with him and seems to have fantastic discipline. The...