I'm not neurotic! Everyone does it!

In graduate school e-mails are important to things like knowing what's going on in your department, talking with your advisor and other professors (such as a thesis committee), hearing about things like a graduate research fair that you REALLY should present at and, ya know, life.

When you get to the point of grad school, you are quite familiar with the massive amount of e-mails that you can potentially receive on any given day. So if, by chance, you don't receive e-mails, you may experience slight discomfort. In fact, the amount of discomfort and your reaction to this discomfort might look a little something like this:

Now imagine you are in my shoes, where you've been getting e-mails, just not from your dept...imgaine the spin this can take. Are you not getting their e-mails? Do they not have you on the e-mail list? Wait...you thought you fixed that? Is your e-mail not working for selective e-mails? IS YOUR INBOX CONSPIRING AGAINST YOU?!?!?!

Now, not wanting to sound paranoid, it may take a while to actually e-mail your advisor and say

"Hi, Dr. So and So,
 I was wondering...well I think...I'm not getting e-mails from you and I'm thinking that maybe I should be.

Thanks,
Your Name Here"

But everntually, you will. And you may discover that you were never put on their list. You will have a sigh of relief. Just don't start questioning why you weren't on the list to begin with...parania, it's a serious problem.