Recovering From A Faux Pas

[SteadyEd]

Hi All,

 

I am transitioning from a business career to Art History, retiring at the end of the year to pursue studies full time.  A business colleague referred me to an aquaintance of his, who just happens to be the Chair of the Art History department at a major midwestern university (!!).  My initial inquiry to this individual, via e-mail, contained a editing error (an 'I' that should have been an 'If').  Discovered, of course, to my horror after hitting 'send'.

 

I have resisted (so far) the temptation to send a corrected e-mail.  In daily business communications in with colleagues, these sorts of mistakes are overlooked in favor of the work at hand.  In formal communications, however, not so much.  And I expect that in academia, the tolerance is even less.

 

What's more, this is something I hate myself when I see it occur.  Am I doomed? I'm hoping he's a congenial, forgiving sort. How would you handle something like this?

 

Ha!  30 years in business: no worries.  One error to the Chair: I'm 22 all over again.

 

Thanks in advance for your reassurances.

[philstudent1991]

_{I think such an understandable error will be forgiven}

[Borden]

given the number of stories we've heard about people getting full rides after sending in personal statements with the wrong uni name in them, I think you're probably okay.

[SteadyEd]

Thanks.  I would think so....   I suppose if it is a problem for him, I'll just have to make sure I'm on my toes going forward.

[fuzzylogician]

Relax, it's a typo. It's the kind of thing you don't even notice when you read an email, and it's not the kind of thing that makes you think any less of the writer. I wouldn't worry about this and I definitely would not send a corrected email.