hatingthewaiting

Well bloody hell. I just read my ratings sheets. I got two excellent/excellents, and one verygood/good with really weird comments that didn't make sense and weren't clearly related to my application. Sigh. Going to drunken sleep now.

They hate cognitive psychologists too.

Seriously...nice of them to get my hopes all up. Oh well. Good its all over I guess.

My area didn't get any new awards at all. Not even one.

Congratulations Higgins!

ITS UP!!!!! Go to that website!!!!

Yeah, I haven't been able to get the non-beta site at all since it went down...oh, about an hour and a half ago.

ARRRRGGG! How long can it take to put up ONE list?

I'm saving that technique for when the list is actually up (or, for when they put up the same damn message they have had for 2 months and my head explodes).

I actually did it by poking the screen with my finger slighly drunkenly...but I am only on glass #2 on wine, so I am pretty sure you are right..I'm not ready yet.

Wow. There are 92 people here right now.

Just did. People who haven't joined-you should join! I hope this is really it this time. I don't think I can take much more of this.

Wow is right. Isn't this like 2.5% of all the limboers out there?

Thanks for recommending sporcle.com Higgins. It is entertaining me in between resfreshes.

I have just returned from the store with a $10.99 1.5L bottle of wine. Come on NSF, do your worst!

I'll go out on a limb and call 123 awards, evenly distributed, but not until Wednesday.

As would I. I suggest you two sell tickets, then use the profits to fund the loser! I'm thinking an epic cheese battle is worth at least $5 a person.

That really sucks Higgins. You have to let us know if you get one. That way, if I don't get one, (after I finish feeling sorry for myself of course) at least I will be able to be happy for you.

I am putting my money on tonight, and 123 awardees. That seems like a depressing enough number to make me feel like an idiot for spending so much time worrying about this.

<> Anyhow. Looks like all that refreshing was for nothing, the site is back up same as ever. I kind of think the people at the NSF may actually be reading this thread (yes, thank you, I am becoming increasingly paranoid) and realized the notice of maintenance had gotten us all worked up, so took it down out of kindness. Although of course it made some of us even more worked up.

refresh...refresh...refresh

It's down for me too. So it is now 4:31 AM on the East Coast and I am freaking out way too much to go to bed. If it turns out just to actually be regularly scheduled maintenance my head is going to explode.

Can you take the TA line, and then if you are offered a GRFP defer it for a year? I have heard of people who had good fellowships from their Universities who defered their GRFP to finance years 2,3, and 4 or 3,4, and 5. That way if you got a GRFP you would have it to look forward to in a year, but if not you won't starve.

I am having a pity party. It has been 1 month that we poor limonians have been waiting for an answer. That is 1/12 of a year. So. If there are 2100 of us miserable limboers, and we can say that the mean reduction in happiness is 1/10 this month while we are waiting, then the NSF has cost the universe 17.5 Quality Adjusted Life Years. Nice. This is of course not adjusted for the fact that we are, on average, fairly young.