<p>I assume that the evening consults and meetings were on top of the 11 hour workdays? The only way that I see the description working out is if the weekends did not also involve 11-hour+ days, so that the volunteer work and other activities could fit into them.</p>
<p>I may not have the exact terminology stated correctly, but the Uberman sleep schedule is supposed to be something that permits one to sleep 2 hours per day (maybe less). I read about it, but concluded that it wasn’t going to be physiologically bearable for me.</p>
<p>I didn’t say I did the evening consults or had evening meetings every night, QM. But there were plenty of them. Its not necessary to dissect my schedule. I am telling you the truth. You can believe it. Or not. My point is, and you do not have to present your hourly schedule, is that academicians are not the only ones with demandiung schedules.</p>
<p>Please end the discussion of which profession has the most work hours, demands, etc. It’s going around in circles and more posts aren’t going to change anyone’s mind, anyway.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>PS - And please don’t write, “OK, but one more point…” :)</p>
<p>What is your definition of “timely” QM? Is what Consolation described in post 195 timely? Was the professor in this situation responding in a timely fashion?</p>
<p>End of story is right. And yes, she did eventually write it and was on time, but it is still unprofessional and cruel to consent to do it and then string the girl along. Asking for HOURLY reminders? Dear God. I don’t care how busy she was (it’s not like she’s an elementary art teacher or something Sorry, couldn’t resist).
Point is: if you are a professional and you agree to something that you KNOW is important to the person asking, you should act like a professional and get it done in a timely manner and take the responsible for policing yourself rather than ask the recipient to do it.</p>
<p>Edit to add that the student should have moved onto another prof after she started to sniff out a problem with this one. But that’s a lesson learned for next time.</p>
<p>Well said. When I first read that the professor in question asked the OP’s daughter to send her hourly reminders, my first thought was “this person is a total loon.” I may even have posted as much.</p>
<p>The professor said she would do it. Her subsequent behavior was unacceptable, regardless of the fact that apparently it finally got done.</p>
<p>I may not be a psychiatrist but my opinion is that “total Loon” would accurately describe the mental state of this woman. Combined with a hefty dose of ADHD. In the amount of time that she needed to read those hourly reminders, she could have written the letter 5 times over.</p>
<p>And although I’m not a psychiatrist, the kind of venom the OP is heaping in absentia on a professor who she doesn’t know, and is only hearing about via the D, suggests a mental state of what exactly?</p>
<p>Whether or not the professor’s conduct was unacceptable, I think it’s sad that a bunch of strangers on the internet have decided that the mom’s account via the D is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, and the professor deserves whatever scorn is forthcoming.</p>
<p>The D got the recommendation and got accepted where she wanted. Glory Hallelujah. But isn’t it a little weird that said student never had Plan B (or C); so many reasons why the other professors wouldn’t/couldn’t/shouldn’t write the recommendation… and now, all the grownups here are piling on the professor who as it turns out, wrote what was apparently a glowing recommendation?</p>
<p>And it’s the professor who is the total loon? There are at least two sides to every story and we only know half of one (the parents interpretation of the kids story.)</p>
Sorry, couldn’t resist).