Wow, no one has posted in this thread for a long time!! I am resurrecting it. This isn't so much haha funny as exasperatingly funny.
Last year, Alison had a paper to write in either English or Lit, I can't remember which. Circumstances led her to writing an email to a Harvard professor. He was nice enough to answer her email and provide her with the info she was looking for.
A few weeks ago she tells me that the professor emailed her again, asking how she did on her paper and he asked her to forward a copy to him so he could read it. She did.
I just asked her a few days ago if she ever heard back from him again, and she said yes. (Completely nonchalantly.) I said what did he say?? She said, he told me it was a good paper and thanked me for sending him a copy.
I was pretty excited by this point so I asked to read the email from the professor. She said, Oh I already deleted it.
WHAT?!?! A Harvard professor told my 8th grade daughter she had written a good paper and she DELETED it. Because, you know...that kind of stuff happens every day.