February 06, 2006

Ok, Apparently Now it is Official

I got an email today from "Graduate Admissions & Program Evaluations" with the subject "=?ISO-8859-1?B?U2FuIEpvc+kgU3RhdGUgR3JhZHVhdGUgU3RhdHVz?=" and I almost didn't open it because I get quite a lot of spam promising me instant PhDs and things and usually jibberish in the subject line means the message is in Russian (don't know why I get spam in Russian...). But I did open it and it turns out to have been the official notification of my real degree. "Your application for award of degree has been approved for graduating in Fall 2005. Your master's degree has been officially posted on your transcript. Your diploma will be mailed to you at a later time..." along with a note suggesting that I order an official transcript if I want actual proof of my degree for employment or school purposes. At least I assume it is the real degree since it did have the proper contact information for my school's Graduate Admissions & Program Evaluations department in the signature block and an html attachment with the correct letterhead (it'd probably have been apparent more immediately if I hadn't been checking my mail through a text-only web mail client...) But its getting pretty hard to know what email to trust these days...

Posted by Emily at February 6, 2006 04:37 PM
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Mazel tov!

Posted by: Aunt Judy at February 6, 2006 06:32 PM

Mmmm...text-only email clients.

Pine makes me so happy. And I know what you mean about all of the junk. Why is Tiger Woods emailing me, AND offering me cheap Microsoft software?!?!!? :P

Posted by: Emy at February 6, 2006 07:33 PM

Weird subject line... how were you supposed to know that was an official SJSU email?
C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S ! ! ! !

Posted by: Lisa at February 7, 2006 05:42 PM

I send congratulations. As if I had any doubts about your finishing. What is "text-only web mail client?"

Posted by: Jane at February 9, 2006 10:12 AM

way to go! Now we all have our own personal librarian!

Posted by: lisa kimball at February 9, 2006 03:06 PM

Thanks everyone for the support! I didn't mean to milk this for more congrats, but it was nice to get some "official" notification.

Jane -- my text-only web mail is how I get my mail online (at home I download it with Eudora) and the application I use doesn't display any graphics, just the text, which is why html formatted messages turn into jibberish like the subject of this email... Not that I'm hardcore and using Pine like Emy... (not since about 1994 anyway)

Posted by: Emily at February 9, 2006 05:10 PM