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No go for me. My best to everyone!

omg i would have passed out from that

i just emailed my FPA (again). She would only confirm that I will hear "VERY" soon. As if that puts me any more at ease.

Raaaaaaaaad. Good luck to you!

i wonder if that was precisely the point of chelali's comment.

love it!

730 est?

Wow that sound incredible

Sweeeet! What's your proposal

Sweeeet! What's your proposal

Gender Studies. Proposal is to create focus groups to study the social and emotional impacts of gender disparity on young women ages 13-15 as it relates to education and how to prevent secondary school enrollment rates from dropping for this population. That's the short version! And you?

Maybe they close at 6?

Holla! Full or Eta? I'm applying for a research grant for Rajasthan!

I'm married as well (first anniversary coming up in a few months!). That was a big discussion for us. He is at a very significant point in his career and I knew that leaving his position would be a difficult decision, but I wasn't going to make him do it. He also had no desire to keep me from applying for Fulbright. That said, we decided against him coming. Plus the stipend wasn't a whole lot for a dependent. Luckily we have spent months apart before, and have managed to keep up our strong communication skills!

Ugh, i'm stuck at work too. Waiting to go on lunch. I probably have the LOWEST productivity rate of the day. I just finished grad school in December! Schools out forever for me! And you?

Wth I just got an email from TripAdvisor with the subject line: "And the winner is..." another sign from the universe?!?!?! Uggggh

Holy shit there are a lot of us. Any India Fulbrighters in the house!!??

Yes, please! I'm super bored at work (just finished grad school!) so I have practically nothing else to focus on except for this forum! lol can't wait for Friday!

Well, we knew there'd be competition in this. Tell me more about it! lol, Good luck to you all the same!

Yes!! Another India applicant!! What's your proposal?!

The topic area is Gender Studies. My proposal is to study the social and emotional impacts of gender disparity on young women living in a rural district/village in Rajasthan. This district has some of the highest rates of illiteracy, and lowest enrollment rates for girls in primary school, and especially in secondary school the enrollment rates drop. I proposed to develop focus groups using participatory action research to encourage student involvement on having a discussion about what are the causes (which there is a wide range) that limit female students from continuing on to high school, explore their perceptions of gender norms in Indian culture/society, working together to find ways to go on to higher education and reduce drop-out rates etc. There will be use of journal writing, photography and video documentation that will support my publication to an international academic journal and will expand on current literature around the issues of women's empowerment, education and international development, conflict resolution, gender equality, etc.. I have a host affiliate that is an NGO called Educate Girls where I did my graduate practicum work in Summer 2011. Why India? I fell in LOVE with this country and with the young women that I worked with. I learned so much from them (as well as the other NGO I interned at prior to EG) that when I left after three months I felt I could have stayed even longer and learn a lifetime's worth of knowledge based on the women's experience. I knew that I had to go back. That's why I applied. I wanted to continue giving back to this specific group of young women that I felt such a strong connection to. I have been studying Hindi since returning from that trip to further enhance my ability to communicate with the students. Like so many of you all, I really want this! What's your proposal all about ?! I truly love hearing about everyone's project. There is so many diverse and unique opportunities for research and reading about everyone's passion is such a wonderful part of this process!!!

Cool! Good luck to you! (I'm about ready to harrass my campus advisor since I hear they already have the results !!!)

Ya, I already did right after I posted that. I was super polite Where are you applying to? I'm applying for a full research grant to India.

i really want to email the IIE program manager for my country about the ETA on the Emailssssss. Is that a crazy/bad idea? Also has anyone else looked at the statistics for thier country on Fulbrights website and crunched the numbers? I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who's obsessive from time to time. https://us.fulbrightonline.org/statistics