Those are African elephants - not easily trained. Impressive.
Yes, well spotted. As you say, that is impressive.
The cover letters from hell don't look at all unlikely. I've seen similar.
A few years ago, I spent some time recruiting summer students, from people who were currently in their second (or, to be more accurate, penultimate) year of their first degree. I started out with high ideals of only considering people with perfect spelling and good grammer, but I had to change those ideas very quickly; sticking to them would have left me with a very small pool of candidates.
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Date: 2009-07-12 12:26 pm (UTC)Yes, well spotted. As you say, that is impressive.
The cover letters from hell don't look at all unlikely. I've seen similar.
A few years ago, I spent some time recruiting summer students, from people who were currently in their second (or, to be more accurate, penultimate) year of their first degree. I started out with high ideals of only considering people with perfect spelling and good grammer, but I had to change those ideas very quickly; sticking to them would have left me with a very small pool of candidates.