By Kendall Smith ’16, Lighter Fare Advice Columnist

Over the weekend I had an unfortunate mishap with Microsoft Outlook. Lesson learned: double check the email recipient before you send an email.

It all happened around 11:00 p.m. on a Saturday night while I was browsing through old family photos. I have this habit of finding bizarre childhood photos on my computer and sending them to my phone in the thought that they may one day serve some kind of purpose  (so far all they have accomplished is taking up every last GB of storage my phone has). In the midst of trying to send an adorable yet comical photo of me and my brother dressed as cop and prisoner on Halloween 2007, I made a few, well one critical error: I trusted my computer to carry out a simple task correctly. While mindlessly typing in the first few letters of my email address into the recipient bar and clicking send, somewhere along the way my computer decided it would be fun to send the photo to a college admissions director of its choosing instead (probably an operator error, but what’s the fun in owning up to your own mistake?). The next day I woke up to a surprisingly friendly email from the college admissions director who had been the lucky recipient of this “candid.” She replied that the photo made her day and helped her start her week off with a smile. I guess this is one way to make yourself a memorable applicant.