This post is dedicated to DePaul University.

In November 2003, I applied to the Masters CS program at DePaul with a concentration in HCI. My primary impetus was that the application required no essays and no letters of recommendation. Talk about an easy app! It made me feel gratified to apply to one grad school without breaking a sweat.

I was accepted (surprising, yeah?), and ever since, the emails have been pouring in from DePaul. To this day, in fact. The trouble is, DePaul doesn’t have a separate flag in their database to distinguish between potential students and actual students. They never even asked me if I intended to come to their school. I think the must assume, “Everyone who we accept must be banging down our door.” I guess I disprove that theory.

I know what you’re probably thinking. With a simple email, I could probably inform them that I’m actually not a student there and that they should remove me from their mailing list. But I find it humorous that their advisors email me every semester, like clockwork, asking me to set up a meeting to go over my academic schedule. They never seem to follow up when I don’t make the appointment though.

While I’d love to go into further detail about the breakdowns at DePaul (like how I couldn’t select my admission semester when I first went to apply because it wasn’t a valid option on their form…), I’m afraid I’m otherwise occupied. You see, I was invited to participate in Student Government Elections at DePaul today, and I’m very excited to voice my choice.