On urgent questions and post frequency
As this blog rapidly approaches the four (!) year mark, I figured that it would be ideal to make a note about how we chose to and how often we answer questions. For anyone following the blog it’s no secret that we post a lot less often than we used to -- at our peak, at least a question or two was answered daily. High productivity was enabled by the relative ease of community college course loads and the sheer amount of unanswered questions.
Now, we’re over 800 posts in, Jimmy is at Berkeley vying for degrees in two rigorous fields, and I am in graduate school. None of us have the time that we used to, though our passion for demystifying the California college transfer process has not been diminished -- we continue to discuss CCs and the UC fairly frequently.
Particularly in the summer, where deadlines are few and daytimes long, we take a lot of liberty when it comes to question turnaround. But if, for whatever reason, you’d like a question faster, you have several ways of doing so, ordered in increasing levels of urgency:
Ask 2.0: we’ve always looked at questions submitted to our Google form before the questions in our Tumblr ask box. But we don’t necessarily answer them any more quickly than regular asks these days. Oftentimes this is because the question has already been answered in full or in part.
Email: it’s not a preferred method of communication anymore for our age group, but believe it or not, we check the site email all the time and receive push notifications for messages.
Our Facebook page: we see messages instantly there. You’re not anonymous when you do this, obviously, but in exchange for that, we generally reply very quickly.
Above all, we recommend searching our site for an answer unless you are confident that it is an unusual one. Tumblr’s search function is imperfect so you may have to enter multiple queries with different or fewer keywords.
- Arthur