Munashi

If you're at their twitter, it's under the "tweets and replies" tab. https://twitter.com/NSFGRFP/status/577966713435787265<-- Here's the tweet.

My personal bet is on either Mar 31 (Tuesday) or Apr 03 (Friday).

Dude, that's awful. I'm sorry you're dealing with this. As someone else said: the fact that this came through a text.. ? Erg. Wishing you the best.

That's what I would figure. They use fastlane for lots of other grants, as someone else pointed out earlier in the thread. I think it's a bit too early to worry about, we probably have at least another 2-3 weeks of waiting.

Odd. My application still says "received", no issues getting to the website just now. I wouldn't worry - it's probably just a temporary issue related to the outage that they're working on.

It's the same troll from last year - check out his/her post history.

Looks like last year awards were announced April 10th. Their website says "by mid-April".

How about psychology? >_> Our deadline was just before yours. I imagine it's probably been looked at as well. Bah, still a few weeks to go.

Same here! Feel free to PM if desired as well.

Man, I hope it doesn't take until April 10th this year. Good grief.

Don't get a letter from a colleague (in most cases). Do get another letter. If you don't meet the requirements of the application, often your application just isn't reviewed. It's that simple.

I mean.. maybe. What class is the lecture for and is the guy Tom Selleck?

What even... This is not normal.

Well said! That's basically the crux of it.

Apologies if I'm misinformed regarding adjunct & industry positions. I've certainly observed the inverse - tenured profs doing industry work on the side. But if people are open to that, I suppose the flip-side would be true also. Juillet has some great points, though - especially about current students and their changing/evolving goals. I'm only in my second semester, and I've already flip flopped once or twice about industry vs. academia. Additionally, your point about "only needing the credential" for the positions you're interested in is likely valid. A PhD program is going to train you to do research. If you want to do that research in an academic setting or an industry one, the same basic principles will apply across the board. I would not be too worried about it "failing to train [you] for jobs that exist". That said, I have seen some people on this board run into the issue of "I want to take a summer internship to get work experience and my advisor won't support/allow it". So just be aware that you may meet some resistance, depending on where you go and what you ultimately decide to do.

Sounds like he wants to discuss funding possibilities with you over the phone/skype, I don't think it's an interview that will decide your award. Who knows, though. The only way to find out is to talk to him.

I see, that might help explain current students' reactions. If we were talking I/O, some programs do have a strictly academic focus (Texas A&M comes to mind as an example) and generally only send students into academic positions. Other programs are "scientist/practitioner balanced" and will prep you for either career type (Colorado State and Penn State spring to mind). Some will have website info showing percentages of alumni entering academia versus industry and where those people ended up, others won't be that detailed. We're a lucky sub-area in that regard - there are options. Other areas of psych (excluding Clinical) tend to be more strictly academic focused. There are always exceptions, but social psych folks tend to hang out in academia (either in psychology or possibly business departments) and you see less of them in industry compared to I/O. They're out there, though. If you are interviewing at/talking to current Social students, that may explain the attitude of "probably an academic position". People are concerned about job prospects for a reason - it's highly competitive. I know much less about psych/law and community psych. Although frankly, I've never heard of anyone adjuncting and working in industry (sounds like you're talking about applied research?) at the same time. The adjunct-type positions tend to be grossly underpaid and you'd be better off just focusing on your industry job. If teaching is really a passion of yours, why not aim for an academic position at a teaching-oriented institution, like a liberal arts school? Just something to think about. The reality is though, in a lot of programs, "industry" or anything outside of tenure-track academia is a dirty word. If your ambitions fall outside of there, you may want to consider that when making your decision about where to accept and attend. Personally, I would not want to go to a place where I had to hide my real ambitions or constantly be told they're less-than-noble.

Can I ask what subfield of psychology we're talking about? I vomit lots of things at you about I/O psych career prospects, but I'm willing to bet that isn't what we're talking about here.

You guys ever hear of "queen bee syndrome"? A lot of management research this isn't really a thing on average/across females, but I certainly think I've seen some individuals that fit the bill...

Ahh, apologies. I am honestly not sure, and I'm also unable to find that info... If anyone else has it, I'd be interested as well just for curiosity's sake.

Seriously, it is. It is arguably quite serious/threatening BECAUSE you're "able" to be walking around, so you aren't resting... but you still need to heal. My spouse had walking pneumonia once... not a good time. Please rest up! You aren't slacking, you're looking out for yourself.

My spouse's career is very portable, as I like to call it. I chose my schools. We knew certain areas would be preferable in terms of finding new work, but figured we could make any place I applied to work if needed. I did take my spouse's opinion into account when selecting a program, but in the end, it was left up to me to choose. I also attended interviews/visits alone, just as an added FYI. I am lucky and got lots of support in this process.

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