Unusual recommendation letter

[steuard]

I wrote a letter of recommendation for a student today, but an old PDF viewer bug inspired the printer to reinterpret what I'd written a little:



One person that I showed this to commented, "It could have been worse: that student could have ended up with a '??? ???? ?? ?????...' letter."

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[steuard.livejournal.com]

I showed it to one of the other physics professors here, and he said, "Yeah, I've seen a few letters of recommendation that looked like that: 'He walks on water! He's the greatest ever!'"