Trantorian

I actually guessed part of the ending (I was one of the rumor mongers ) but I just didn't like the way it was told. It would have been fitting 5 seasons ago, but it feels like it deserved more time because it took 9 seasons to get there.

Well, to be fair, this season would have been good, if they didn't make it so slow at the wrong times, and so quick at the wrong times.. D:

"Dude, I didn't get it." "Dude, I got it." "Dude, HIMYM is over."

Meh, I say, go find a good link to HIMYM series finale and watch it.

>Everyone is just sitting back hitting refresh. Uh, we're a bit more refined than that. We use a script to refresh automatically, searching for keywords like "results" "are" "up" or something.

I wonder how much temptation there is in doing a maintenance then an "APRIL FOOL'S" kind of page. D:

I'm more optimistic about the series finale for HIMYM than the NSF GRFP.

I just want to know.. I mean, my advisor is well-funded enough that I don't have to worry (unless some random act of craziness happens, which is always possible), but it would have been so awesome to get this for the DoE networking..

I guess everyone is watching this thread because it's April 15th, eh? We're officially not in "early April" now . . .

Well, I think my advice for this is the same as what a professor told me when I asked something similar.. "Why don't you wait and see if you get it before you ask questions like that?" EDIT: Realized how mean that sounds. I mean that, you don't want to ask questions like that because it raises your hope up to a certain level because you've thought about what would happen if you have it, you know? It's like thinking about what that $5000 allowance would get you in terms of a workstation computer. It will raise an incredible amount of hope that may be too hurtful to recover from easily.

Honestly, the biggest thing from this fellowship is the ability to network with other computational guys and with the DoE labs.. I'd love to be able to work there afterwards, but my advisor is better connected with non-DoE national labs.

Do you really need a good fit for a place you intend to leave after a year or two..? I mean, if your goal is to go into a PhD program, there's less of a need to feel at home at your Master's than at the PhD institution. Of course, if you have a friend pick for you, and you feel either relieved or are looking for excuses to invalidate it, then you already have a choice made in your mind.

Did you realistically calculate your chances of attending a top 10 program for your PhD? I mean, assuming you do well in your MA, assuming that funding is as shitty as it is now, assuming that there won't be a lot of high calibre candidates in your field when you apply, what are your chances of getting into a top 10 PhD program? I think it's crazy when people refuse funding for a possible "better" situation so that's my opinion.

Does that mean April 15th?

So, once it gets past April 10, it's no longer early April, right? I mean, if you split something in early, that would mean that you have early, late, and the middle crap in between.. In addition, I don't think that it's fair to put early, late, and the middle as equal sections.. Really, early April should have been before April 5. Damn it.