Delay in Offer Letter Jitters

[looking!]

So I just received the offer letter for one of my top choices. However, it came a few days later than the department had informed me, due to some drama, in their words. This is making me a little jittery about the prospect of going to the school.?

Am I making a quick assumption that the school administration is bureaucratic? The school itself can also be central to academic success and so I am having second thoughts ... Thoughts?

[Strangefox]

So I just received the offer letter for one of my top choices. However, it came a few days later than the department had informed me, due to some drama, in their words. This is making me a little jittery about the prospect of going to the school.?

Am I making a quick assumption that the school administration is bureaucratic? The school itself can also be central to academic success and so I am having second thoughts ... Thoughts?

If they wrote that there have been some drama, may be they really mean it? May be they mean Japan, may be they have faculty members there. I don't see anything bureaucratic about it.

[wtncffts]

Reading way too much into it, I think. In any case, all school administrations are bureaucratic.

[kiseika]

Reading way too much into it, I think. In any case, all school administrations are bureaucratic.

This.

Every school's administration is mired in bureaucracy, and there's always drama between the academics and the administrators. The poor administrative staff who work in the departments are the ones who get caught in the middle and who end up telling prospective grad students about drama.

I'm sure there exist a few schools where it's all sunshine and lollipops, but I think the two sides will always be fundamentally opposed.

Edited March 17, 2011 by kiseika