dox wrote:
I send out about 100 FedEx overnight shipments per week, and my late delivery rate has been less than 0.1%. About the only time I've ever had them missed their delivery timeframe is due to major weather systems.
Well, for me this almost didn't even seem like a surprise. It's almost as if somebody is purposely trying to make me fail. For the first deadline, here's how it went the night before. Got home, internet crashed, never comes back on. Drove to Kinkos and used their computers. Emailed the essays back to myself/saved them on disk. Then got home and my computer couldn't recognize the version of MS Word that Kinkos had. Rewrote essays with saved handwritten notes and turned in on deadline date 30 minutes before cutoff.
Countless other things, but I still think everything will work out. I know most people would say that I should have completed them earlier, but the fact is I could not have completed them and maintained the quality. The only reason everything is gonna work out is because I have had to stay so OCD about everything... otherwise I would have failed 50 times over already. That and not sleep more than 5 hours a night for the last six months.
Oh yeah, almost forgot to mention... 2 days after the deadline mentioned above, I got an email from the school indicating that "recommender 1" had not uploaded their recommendation even though the website indicated that it was submitted. I immediately emailed my recommender, and they responded that from the airport waiting for a plane out of the country... forwarded the email to their assistant, who submitted the rec. the next day. Madness... good training for a high pressure job maybe, relaxing... not at all.