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My tutor is going to find out I lied!
I am a university student and was supposed to be meeting with my tutor tomorrow to discuss how my dissertation is going. I felt a bit under prepared but I didn't want to tell her that in case she thought I hadn't been working hard enough, so I emailed her saying I had to work and asked if I could see her on Friday instead. The email bounced back, so later on I sent her another one, this time admitting that I was under prepared. As soon as I'd sent it I noticed that my original email had now been sent, so now she will have two emails from me with two different excuses and she will realise that I have lied.
What should I do? I've looked into recalling it etc but it isn't possible.
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Definitely tell her the truth. If she got both emails, then chances are she knows what's going on, anyway. It wasn't a huge lie, but lying to try to get out of it is the worst thing you can do. I imagine she'll be fairly understanding about the whole thing. Chances are, though, she may not even ask.
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You can try telling her that you actually tried to send the one about being unprepared first, and then you found out that you also had to work, thought that the first e-mail didn't go through, so you just sent the one about having to work.
You can also just admit to trying to cover up the fact that you were unprepared. It's embarrassing, but may be the better thing to do.
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Just wait until you get a response. If she calls you on it, just be honest about how nervous you were because you weren't prepared. There's nothing else you can do.
And what you did wasn't such a horrible thing. I can't count how many people I know that have done similar things, it's no big deal. You'll be fine.
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There is only one thing you can do. Tell her the truth. You told us what happened, why can't you tell her the same?
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