there'sanappforthat

I don't hear a thing from my FPA. I've just been going by past dates, so it could be any time now, or even as late as next month. I'm just trying to hunker down in case we have a longer wait than we think

hahahahahhaha. No. Um. I can't imagine being a Democrat in Oklahoma would be easy, so kudos to you! I don't mean that to come across the wrong way - that would be hella tough and I admire your dedication!! Always glad to hear of a fellow democrat in a predominantly red state

Yeah I went back and reread that. You very likely will find out this week then! I'll cross my fingers for you.

That doesn't sound lame at all - you definitely have to start somewhere!

No, right there with you! Wouldn't have thought of that analogy, but now that you mention it, it seems pretty apt! Meow!

Hello, my name is "there'sanappforthat" and I have a problem;an addiction to this message board.All 222? posts i have accumulated have been submitted to this thread. Yes, I know, it's sad, you don't have to tell me

Ahh! Another German ETA applicant! Welcome to the club! We have cookies!

I feel ya. My body isn't on high alert anymore, but that isn't stopping me from continuing to check the board regularly

Hey Christine - I am a Germany ETA applicant.Submitting further materials in German is no longer a part of the process, as far as I have heard, so I wouldn't worry about it anymore. SOmeone (I don't remember who) stated earlier in the forum that their FPA said that had been done away with this year.

Hugs, friend!

I don't really have any advice for you. All I can say is that I have spent the last week and a half/ two weeks in a stateof high anxiety. I think my brain just decided I couldn't continue to pump out much adrenaline every day and to cut that shit out.

I believe you won't find out your city placement for some time after you get notification about whether or not you were accepted. Obviously only if you were accepted I have heard as late as June, but that was for Germany.

Yeah, when the first rounds of emails were coming out, I started to get into that hyperventilating stage. After about two weeks of being continually anxious, you kind of get to the point where you have to stop and say, "Yeah, this may still be a while". It was hard to turn off that switch, but I definitely don't think I am still at that stage where I am checking my email every two minutes. I definitely don't blame anyone who is still there, but hey, if I don't make it, I will need this job, so I better make sure it will still be here for me

Right there with you. Although, I think it's more me that is questioning why I would want to leave a stable job more than my parents are. Also, spending a few years in this economy has made me reevaluate the utility of my degree. It's not working out all that well for me, and I'm not sure it was the best fit to begin with, so I'm thinking returning to school for something else. It's odd, because who you are as a person and what you value can greatly change from when you are a graduating highschool senior to a college senior. I was determined not to flip flop around on majors, but I'm not sure that was the right decision. Ultimately, I think the Fulbright fits into my current career goals.

This is my second time applying. The first time I applied was pretty much directly out of college. I took a year off, as had finally found a job and didn't want to bail after just accepting. Also, I moving for said job was a pretty big change. Another thing I will add to what I said before about being prepared to deal with post graduation is that a lot of graduates think that they are going to get that perfect job straight out of college. Many are hesitant to accept anything less than their dream job. I know I was guilty of this at first. I think college students are not taught that we will still have to work from the bottom up after graduating, and will probably still have to do a lot of grunt work before we find ourselves in a position where we are truly happy. That being said, there are people who jumped straight out of college into the perfect opportunity - but that is not the norm. Granted, I'd imagine most Fulbright applicants are pretty successful people, but that doesn't mean you won't have to struggle. You might find that a few years out of college you are not at all where you thought you were going to be or want to be. The economy is slowing healing, so you guys might have a much better experience than I did, graduating in 09' during the worst of the recession. It was pretty dire straights for me and a lot of my fellow graduates. I still know plenty of students from my graduating class that have not found a job in their field. You kind of just have to roll with the punches, take things as they come, and be willing to adjust where you thought you were going to be.

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!

Wouldn't it be nice if one could just flip a switch and turn off anxiety?I think a lot of it stems from the fact that so many FPA's have been saying that annoucements will be earlier this year, so we don't have a lot to go by. It really could be any day. Speaking for myself, I don't have a lot going on at the moment. I'm not in school, so I don't have a lot to distract myself from my anxiety. I don't have any papers to write or any tests to study for. I sit in a cubicle all day, trying to focus on my work. If you don't like seeing the forum blow up with random snippets of conversation, I'm sure you could turn off your notifcitions. I do not receive email notifications for new posts, so you should be able to turn it off as well. Some people just need that feeling of camraderie, and far be it from me to take that from them.

Whelp, looks like that's the game, folks!

Oh, ok, I see it on the website. Other than the balls , what are the benefits of doing a combined over an ETA or just a Full?

I've never even heard of the combined until now! I don't remember seeing anything about it on the Fulbright website, what is it exactly?

Indeed! I haven't given up quite yet

Strike that! I meant Innsbruck, Austria! Osnabrück is in Germany

Ok, so I was just thinking, while you are in Austria, you should go to Osnabrück and see the Swarovski Crystal Palace if you haven't. It is the trippiest experience I have ever had! You would not believe the craziness.. it is definitely worth seeing! For something more normal, go to the olympic ski jump. It is amazing! I went during the summer, which my uncle and cousin. I started pointing and telling them I had just seen a skiier go down the jump and they thought I was crazy; there was no way they were practicing in the summer, without snow. Nope! They were! You can take an elevator up to the top and watch the skiiers go down as well! I took an awesome video!

Tristate and have a Fulbright forum denizens' party. And toast to ecoponophobic's recent success! haha! awesome! Sounds like a plan! If nothing else, if we all make it, we should definitely meet up at the Conference in DC!

Nice, choosing your city placement is definitely an advantage of the full scholarship. I know ETA's don't find out for some time where they will be sent.