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Congrats to all the winners!!
 
G/F
G/F
F/F
 
Lots of remarks about my grades making me noncompetitive and that the application needed further development (which is super true). Did say that my LORs were very strong.
Will try again next year!
 
(why the f*** did I get downvoted for this?)

Nope. Didn't get it. Fuck you all. I'm done. The whole system is an unfair and ridiculous clusterfuck.

tried to be productive, gave up - bring out the wine

Pretty stoked to be in the PST zone right about now... 

West coast best coast (for obsessively refreshing Fastlane on results night)

Already doing my PhD elsewhere...

I'm sure you'd be happy at either! I love UCSC and that whole part of California. It's my dream job to be a faculty member (or at least lecturer) at UCSC or CSU Monterey Bay.

lol this bitch

Soo I removed my name from the alternate list. A weight has been lifted! Once again I feel that my destiny is in mine own hands! Here's to a postdoc abroad

Soo I removed my name from the alternate list. A weight has been lifted! Once again I feel that my destiny is in mine own hands! Here's to a postdoc abroad

And just like that I realized that I am the only single person on this forum.

I have thought about emailing our person, I hear she is nice; but, I assume the answer will come when they are ready.
 
My new theory: My life changing event is nothing but paperwork for someone else.

And just like that I realized that I am the only single person on this forum.

You know it's super cold right? And it gets sooo dark in the winter. Maybe you shouldn't accept

And just like that I realized that I am the only single person on this forum.

And just like that I realized that I am the only single person on this forum.

And just like that I realized that I am the only single person on this forum.

Hi everyone. We are so far into this process, which I hope has been a positive one even for those who didn't end up receiving a grant. It sure has been nice to have a community of people to share in this experience and keep morale up! So, this is only tangentially Fulb-related, but I wanted to solicit some advice from you valiant battle-tested heroes of scholarship...
   I have accepted a fellowship offer for a PhD program that is good and which I like. They are fine with the idea of me postponing my enrollment in the case that I end up in China (knock on wood...and throw in knocking on metal, water, fire, and earth for good measure) this coming year, with fellowship intact. But, my wife lives in a faraway land (the South), and she and I have only ever lived together for several three or four month stints at a time even though we have been together for almost seven years. I know, it ain't normal, and some might even say it ain't raaght. So I was thinking of asking this program if I could defer for a year to spend time with her in that faraway land. She goes up for tenure this year and plans to move to my location in summer 2015, regardless of the tenure outcome.
   The concern is that I would develop a reputation for flakiness right off the bat, on top of the possibility that they would say no. I was planning on selling it using a combination of personal, emotional appeal - the knowledge that time and youth are fleeting has been on my mind a lot recently - as well as giving a detailed proposal for a project which I would be working on during that time. This year they were able to make more admissions offers than ever before, but I don't know if that would have any bearing on their attitude. 
   Any advice or comments you might have are now officially solicited, and I will be grateful for whatever you fine people can say. Lurkers welcome.

it's not norway. It's the FSB. They had their stuff in at the end of January.

Um. Whomever is downvoting her, stop being a jerk. There's no reason to downvote that.

I prefer "not selected."

What's the deal with Scandinavia this year?

Random thought here...can I just say that the word "Rejected" on the Google doc is harsh!!  Surely those letters do not say "Sorry, but the country has rejected you."  It should say "Not Accepted" or something semi-neutral, yes?  

This is my first post, but I've been religiously following this forum over the last few days. Had a big false alarm (and near heart attack) today: I received an email entitled "Dear Fulbright Finalist" but it was something about another person at my university receiving their own. Anyways, I'm a Norway applicant; are there any other Norway applicants here with whom I can commiserate? The suspense and anxiety is quite literally driving me insane.