So how often will you check your email?

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I'm one of those Luddites not in possession of a smart phone, so I don't know I have an email until I...ya know, check my email. I'm a little concerned that once Feb 5th or so comes around, I'm going to be checking it about as often as I breathe. Anyone have any advice on how not to lose your mind when you know that realistically ANY MOMENT NOW could bring doom (or sudden euphoria)? The idea of me ignorantly living my life, reading books, eating sandwiches, playing chess, sleeping, etc. while an email waits in my inbox gives me anxiety.

Edited January 6, 2012 by WellSpring

[gellert]

Not in English, but I lurk all forums and read this topic and ... yeah. You stole the thoughts right out of my head. D:

I check my email probably...5-6 times an hour? I DO have a smart phone, however, but it's a bit slow on uploading emails, sadly.

[bellefast]

I do the same thing. I have this problem too. It is easy to say do something but it is not that easy. God humanities always have to wait!!!!!!!!! I wish I could help =(

[Timshel]

Luckily, my emails go to my Blackberry immediately after I receive the emails, so I will be able to know right away. i don't know what i'd do if it wasn't for my Blackberry.

[lolopixie]

It was pretty much a constant when I was waiting last year...and constantly checking the board and my phone.

[Venti White Choc. Mocha]

I check it once every week or so, on the regular. By February I expect to be checking it five or six times a day.

[vertige]

5-6 times/hour as of this week. I'm no longer a person.

[LLajax]

I have a smartphone, so I pretty much am okay waiting around not checking my email, but I'm becoming obsessive about checking the boards. Thinking: "Anyone from any of my schools hear back yet? Of course not! I won't hear for at least a month... Anyone in my field hear back yet (at any school)? Argh. Still of course not. Wait! That's the name of one of the schools I applied to! Oh wait... that's for chemistry. Which isn't art history."

[HaruNoKaze]

Yea, my email accounts are synced with my phone. School email, all my personal email addys, everything. And it has a specific notification tone too. So right now, I'm chilled out, checking the results page... but come late Feb, I'll probably be like, "maybe the server settings got messed up and my email isn't forwarding, my sync got messed up, let me log online and check it... can someone send me a test email? I wanna make sure that if I get my rejection letter in Sunday morning's church service I don't miss it."

Or something like that.

[wintergirl]

I have a smartphone, so I pretty much am okay waiting around not checking my email, but I'm becoming obsessive about checking the boards. Thinking: "Anyone from any of my schools hear back yet? Of course not! I won't hear for at least a month... Anyone in my field hear back yet (at any school)? Argh. Still of course not. Wait! That's the name of one of the schools I applied to! Oh wait... that's for chemistry. Which isn't art history."

This is me exactly. Except I made a decision when I started my MA last year NOT to have my school email account (the one I used for all my applications) synched to my phone for sanity purposes. Now I'm questioning that logic.

I'm also already checking my snail mail box every day, when I used to neglect it for weeks at a time since only junk mail would be waiting for me. No need to remind me that letters (if they come) won't start showing up for another month. Again: logic fail!