UTB After Dark: A Reply-All Lesson For Freshmen

Checking emails? We're with ya. Like, we get it. You really need to swipe down and refresh your Mail app mid-date Night, mid-lecture, mid-sex – all the time – because you're so important and get, like, hundreds of emails per hour. Fine.

But when it comes to responding to emails? How about a little tact? We're talking to you, trigger-happy frosh, who shamelessly threw anonymity and Googleability right out the window last night.

In case you're not on the College House First Year Residents listserv (a happening place), or if you don't happen to be in possession of a First Year Resident's email login info (because that'd be illegal), you probably missed waking up this morning to 72 unread pieces of listserv spam.

It started innocently enough with a call for nominations for the 2014 College House Deans Integrated Knowledge Award, granted to the select few residents whose "activities and participation have directly benefitted their own College House." We're talking the kid who tried to make weekly hall lunches a thing. The only barriers to winning? You need two references in support of your candidacy. And that's when all hell broke loose.

Dear Mrs Smith,

I have a quick question concerning the letters of recommendation we have to submit for the application. Can one of the recommendations be written by one of our Housemates?

Thank you in advance,

Sincerely,

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