After posting a few tips on completing a Masters Degree and a Thesis, I had a thought that it would be fun to post about the same topic from a lighter angle. How many emails does it take to complete a Masters Degree?
I started using Gmail in 2005. Unfortunately, I don’t have any archived email from before that time. I started school in the Fall of 2003 so there are a number of email conversations I wasn’t able to include for this post. At that time however, I was participating mainly in coursework and had less frequent emailings than later when I was working on my Thesis.
For this post, I’ve considered every email that I sent or received, that pertained to school, since I started saving everything with my Gmail account. I’ve grouped them by the recipient or sender’s responsibility to simplify the summary.
| Sender/Recipeint | Emails |
|---|---|
| Major Professor | 267 |
| Councilor or Department Staff | 62 |
| Graduation Comittee | 38 |
| Department Chair | 23 |
| Misc People | 5 |
| Generic Department Email | 4* |
| Total | 399 |
| * I actually deleted a lot of these emails | |
There you have it. Unfortunately, the communication part of my program was not the bulk of the work for getting my degree!
