Ruluo
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Me too! I think that is probably pretty typical.
I am studying Spanish and Anthropology. How about you? What did you propose to do while you are there?I'm actually less concerned about my background not being strong enough in general and more concerned with random exogenous factors. As an example, one of my affiliation letters is from a prominent politician, and I know that at least one of the members of the selection committee is on the other side of the political spectrum--add to that my project would be looking at policy that is moderately polarizing...
Granted, my proposal is intentionally neutral (and the topic isn't so controversial that it would be a non-starter), so there probably wouldn't be any of those spurious issues where someone decides they just don't like it. That said, that's probably more of my primary concern...
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I'm surprised how many people seem to be applying for the second or third time; considering a year is such a long time, it seems easy to get tied up in other commitments and not be able to apply for a second or third time...
Anyone have any idea what the approximate rate is of returning vs. new applicants?
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I just downloaded the duolingo app, and it's actually pretty cool (especially considering it's free...); that said, I did the most advanced shortcut (to bypass all the lower levels), and it was still way too easy. I wish they had the same exercises but with much more advanced words and sentence constructions/verb conjugations...
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does anyone know how the alternate list works? is it based on country, or spots? i contacted iie and they said there is no ranked list, they go back to the pool to see who should get the open spot. didnt know if it was a country pool, or a universal pool
Hm, that's interesting; I wonder if that means that IIE gets to make the determination instead of the host country (that's what it sounds like...)
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Omg... I was in an important business meeting and opened up my email while I was thinking about the Fulbright and saw one with the subject "Your..." (even though that's not supposedly what the IIE email is, but the january emails were), and I got lightheaded immediately... Turns out it was just about my retirement benefits account -.-
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Blaaaaaah Malta, please send results this week! The guy I talked to at the Fulbright office said that they were hoping for that. But it might not happen. buyg9pugno;jfhs';olrk/;l,l
Wow, I'm surprised they even gave you that level of specificity, that they basically have the results and are trying to get them out, no?
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yayyyyy!!! I was very anxiously awaiting hearing from you, I totally had that feeling like man, she's gotta get it, I'd give it to her
haha, glad the selection committee agreed! Congrats to all who heard good news from Germany!!Not to be creepy, but there were probably 80 people on this forum (including non-posters) that were like, "Germany ETA found out?? I hope theresanappforthat got it!"--that was my first thought at least hah...
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I'm pretty sure this is one of the most excruciating things I have experienced thus far.
Seconded...though maybe that just means we've had relatively easy lives heh...
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Why do I have a feeling it's going to get a lot lonelier around here once the Germany ETAs get notification...?
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Thanks for your perspective, a lot of good advice!
Ultimately, any of us applying have different financial situations and backgrounds. Earlier in the thread, there were lengthy discussions about significant others and what people were going to do for that. Any of these programs will be life-altering in practical ways, but also in the spiritual and emotional ways you mentioned above. At least for me, personally, and maybe others can relate, the anxiety waiting for the "e-mail" is because of how life-altering it will be. It will be the most important notification I will have received since I started my job around two years ago.
Fulbright is also appealing to me for the reasons that you mentioned as, though I have done some extensive traveling in a variety of settings, I have not lived abroad longterm. It's just an odd situation of having a number of (potential) options, any of which would be fine in the long-run as you say.
Contributing towards a retirement fund is something that I value, and though I have a substantial amount of money saved, and quite fortunately no student loan debt, I realize I am financially better off than many of my peers. Maxing out the IRA each year is something I want to do, and Fulbright is most compatible with that option. It is a narrow-minded way of looking at things, but with money, savings, and contributions towards retirement, will lead to a lot of flexibility in both the near and long term. You never know when gainful employment may not materialize, so since I have the opportunity to do so, I am trying to be fiscally responsible before diving into graduate school or any type of service endeavor.
Whoa, that's what I've been thinking and have articulated to my parents (which are the only people that know I've applied...); I'm in a good spot career-wise, but a lot of the stress comes from the fact that the Fulbright opportunity would set me down a completely different path--at least for the next few years...
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Crushed...alternate to Germany full grant..ouch
Anyone know how many alternates are generally selected..?
My FPA said about 1/3...not sure if it varies from country to country, but I was fairly surprised that it's that high
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I am now singing the soundtrack to Evita. Lol!! Congrats on alternate!
Good show! I saw it on Broadway in January before it closed...
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Congrats!!!!! High five!!!
Side note.. WTF Germany. Seriously, your famed efficiency, WHAT HAPPENED?!
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I meant to tell you this last night, but I LOVE your user name!! It's from Sim City, right?? My whole family used to play that game like crazy. We were all reminiscing about it one day and I said how much I loved hearing "reticulating splines" while the game was loading and none of them knew what I was talking about!! Glad to know I'm not the only one!!!
Whoa, that was in SimCity 2000...is that the version you're talking about???
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Ugh, what's with southern European countries taking their time on everything.............
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know who else liked pulling out yo' mama jokes? HITLER
Uh oh...of all the days for me to run out of time while shaving and just have shaved the sides of my mustache...
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Hm, I don't get the logic here. One poster (Ruluo) diverts from 98 pages of cordial discussion. I noted as such in saying that it's "not nice" to call someone's idea naive, and to post argumentative statements if we don't want to argue. That is all pretty straightforward and objective.
Ruluo's intention was to "blast" the ideas of someone else. They shouldn't get a free pass to sidetrack the sentiment of the thread.
HITLER! There we go, we've hit Godwin's Law. We can reset the discussion to Fulbright stuff.
byline--watch it or I'll pull out the yo' mama jokes...
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Ugh. The worst part is that once people start to feel the benefits of universal healthcare, they'll do a 180 and pretend they supported it the whole time. Maybe not the tea partiers but definitely the moderates.
Uh, it's going to benefit a relatively low percentage of people and inconvenience and cost the rest of us more... I'd prefer not to start an argument on the subject, and there is clearly a case for universal health insurance (I'd argue there's already universal care, though the means and quality of it may be an issue in some cases), but it's very naive to believe the PPACA is going to be some panacea that insures tens of millions of additional people without costing more or overburdening the system (which is already a reality).
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I read and post for the same reasons you do. My boyfriend is pretty convinced I'm going to get it but I'm like... "NOTHING IS CERTAIN!! I COULD TOTALLY NOT GET IT!!" He will have more to lose and less to gain than I will if I get it, so I think he is trying to prepare himself for a my year of potential absence. I can totally understand that.
I wasn't saying I'd rather be in school, (well, ok, I do miss school) because I definitely would not want to be writing papers and such. Like I said, I miss school a great deal, I just don't miss deadlines!! For anyone who even remotely enjoyed school, going from 16+ years of the same basic schedule to not quite knowing what to do with all your free time can really throw you for a loop! No one told me how hard graduating was going to be, even disregarding the stress that comes from simply trying to find a job! Anyway, I graduated a few years ago, so I've had time to adjust, but it definitely still creeps up on me!
I can't imagine being out of school for a few years before applying (given the opportunity cost of a few hundred thousand)...
From my perspective though I can't imagine a situation where I'd regret it
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Did anyone in the past ever find out on a Saturday or Sunday??
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Almost 3 pm eastern people--commence breathing exercises...
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Officially set my phone to give off a special alert for any emails received from fulbright. Hopefully I will stop checking so much now haha.
No offense, but this sounds like a horrible idea
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This might be way too obsessive, but it might be interesting/useful for people in future years if we document about what time notifications were received for each country in addition to the dates...
Fulbright 2013-2014
in The Bank
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Heh, that information isn't exactly searchable...and as I understand it, the committee isn't that big and there's no reason to suspect that there is a great diversity of opinion on it (imagine forming a committee of professors in the US hah). Take my intel as second-degree knowledge (I don't have direct communication with any of the committee members), but apparently the selection, while potentially life-changing for us, is fairly low priority for the committee members--at least that's how it was conveyed to me...