dumbmatter

HM for the third straight year! Fuck! At least I'm done with it. And nobody from my school won an award this year, only 3 HM. I guess that's what I get for choosing the lab I want over the school with the biggest name.

The average GRE score in my department (not a top engineering program, but pretty good) is 1310. I would bet that the average GRFP winner has a much higher GRE score... I'd guess ~1450, but I don't think there is any way to really know. All the people I know who won a GRFP did incredibly well on the GRE.

As I understand it, there is a disconnect between the people who decide who wins the awards and the people who run the website and tell us the decisions. And they don't seem to communicate that well all the time.

Monday or Tuesday? Ha!

it's been like that for a while.. check the older posts in this topic.

If your house is worth significantly less than your debt on it, why not consider just walking away?

There were some exceptional circumstances last year though... if there are no weird delays this year, it should be shorter.

I predict it will be April 1, just to fuck with us.

2x honorable mention winner here... the reviews are nearly useless if you've done your homework. that is, if your research plan has been vetted by your advisor, if your essays have been read by people who have experience with the grfp program (these people exist at almost every school), and if you've looked online at all the information posted by past winners and past reviewers. all my reviews did is confirm what i already knew were my weaknesses, which hopefully i have addressed this year.

This is all conjecture: I won HM both of the past two years. I imagine that the reviewer will see that I won HM twice before (since I can list it in "Other Experience" as a "significant academic honor"), and will think to himself "dumbmatter must at least be pretty good". So that might bias the reviewer a little towards giving me a better grade. Or maybe that's just wishful thinking on my part.

yep it's up. 1,236 awards.

beta back up?

ha! yahoo mail is down too, so i can't even check if they sent out an email notification.

ooh the beta is purple now! honestly, i have no idea what these people are doing, taking a website down for several hours every few days.

beta is timing out, non-beta is loading a blank page (but with ssl!)