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I wasn't recommended, but it has been wonderful waiting out the first round with all of you. Congratulations to those who were accepted!

Congratulations!!!

Congratulations Secret_Ninja! I'm going to check my email when I get out of work in a few minutes. Here's to hoping that we get to go to Indonesia together.

mojodreams and fleaball, I'm really sorry.

Yeeeah, I was. I'll PM you.

Hahaha this is so funny! Did you happen to be in the Humanities magnet?

Umm, me too.

WHAT. No way!!! When?

Booyah, sweet potato pie. I've lived all around north of there (Rockville/Olney/Gaithersburg), but I went to middle school at Eastern. It was good times. (Hope no one can track me down with this information, haha... ) You're from the Silver Spring area?

Sweet potato pie. I also like pumpkin. Btw, I'm from nearby Silver Spring.

I would if I could! Discordant_Aesthete - Welcome!

If it's not today, then what do I have all this pie in my refrigerator for?

286 user(s) are reading this topic... Whew, that bumped up fast.

Something like that! I do like my job, but there's so much more of the world to see, you know? I also like to travel in general, and I realized after I graduated that that's somewhat hard to do on your own. If Fulbright doesn't work out, I'll pour all my energies into finding another way to do a cool thing. What about you? What's your background? (10 minutes!)

Oh my gosh, that's too funny. Yes, I did the same thing - took a job and hunkered down to wait on the results. I like my job, but I still have visions of this coming through and being able to put in my two weeks. Sooo funny, ahaha. Thanks! It'll just be a few minutes now. Wow.

I feel the same. I hope there won't be sobbing in either of our short-term futures, but I want to be prepared either way. Best of luck to you!!

Yes! You get me. I'll let my work know when I'm sure of the outcome, not a minute before. Don't want to talk about it unless things are settled. When does work let out for you?

Haha, I also don't want my coworkers to see my extreme disappointment if things don't go the way I hoped.

That sounds like a pretty solid place to be when you open it. That way, no matter what, you're still caught up in a kind of forward momentum.

I'm a little undecided. At 5 PM I'll still be here at work. Nothing wrong with that, but it seems like a bit of an... unromantic venue.

Wow, 143 users reading. That's the highest number I've seen so far.

I can't believe it.

Hahaha, true life! I'm going to try not to look at my inbox until I get out of work at 6, but who knows how successful that'll be. I also bought an entire pie yesterday.

This was exactly what I needed right now!

My proposal consists of research as a visiting scholar, followed by an artist residency. If I don't get the Fulbright, I'll still do the latter, but not the former.