Sorry Bearded Dragon Scientists and the SMOD

I know everyone was thinking last night "why would someone email everyone on campus about bearded dragons" probably followed by the though of "that was kind of annoying." As a college student we are attacked daily by assaults of emails asking us to join student organizations, telling us about stuff going on throughout campus, asking if we have some sort of lizard, bothering us with actual academically important information, and eventually telling us that our email is getting too full. The thing that can be the most annoying though is the emails that are "mass messages," that is sent to the entire student body.

Normally these come from only a few places. We get the occasional email from Chancellor Bunnell or Vice Chancellor Bob Tomlinson. We get the weekly email from SGA telling us what they're working on, and probably a follow-up email telling us what they forgot to tell us they're working on, and maybe a third. Then, we get the motherload of all email storage disasters in the Student Message of the Day (SMOD). This mass message clouds are email at roughly the same time during every single day...even in the summer when nothing is really happening...filling our hopes and dreams with sudden deletion.

I see friends of mine log in and delete them both within seconds, and I find myself doing the same. Shows how much we care about what is really going on. The SMOD seems so unorganized and cluttered with random information almost every day. It has become really nothing more than free advertising for student organizations and departments to talk about events and stuff going on. But...nobody really reads the SMOD...when you look back at college...you may only remember that double click of the "delete" button that you did every day, like clockwork.

Anyway, I just got extremely off-topic. My real intention was to write to Rachel and
Amber and thank them for giving me another email to delete and an interesting topic of discussion in the office. I commend you for taking the time to email every single students the way you did...that takes a lot of time and I really mean...a lot. You must really need a good grade on this Bearded Dragon feces project.

All emails go up to the deleted items box in the sky eventually...but it is definately cluttered with quickly deleted mass messages, like the SMOD. Sorry for the rant...