Dear Higgins the very brave,
I've been reading this forum for a little over a month now and always found your haikus very amusing, well written, and funny. I am in the same limbo status as you are. Even though forums are very limiting to get a sense of what people are like in real life, I get the sense that you are an intelligent, persistent, and humorous person with a lot of character. This last month may have been very rough on you, but please don't give up, because science needs people like you. What I've noticed in my own life is that it is the darkest before light comes again. I so hope you do get the NSF. And if not, please don't give up. Are you able to do teaching to cover some of the costs of grad school? Also, just curious, what did the best month of your life involve?
warm regards,
Di Hu
Anthropology
University of California, Berkeley
P.S. Here's a double-haiku for you:
NSF-Not so fun
Dogs and cats asleep
While we count NSF sheep
Our papers, a heap
Dogs and cats dreaming
of milk bones and fancy mice
We, "click click click, sigh."
