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I'd recommend emailing them. I did, after attempting (fruitlessly) to call them, and received a response in 5 minutes (rejection email).

Poor guy probably didn't realize he was on the Demo site. Either that or yeah, trolling.

Hey at least they didn't pull a Sopranos and cut it off right in the

Lol man don't worry, they were just trolling because we've been sitting here since it went down (roughly 3 hours ago) anxiously awaiting the results post, and basically the last 10 pages or so are filled with anxiety and speculation on the subject.

I wish I was imbibing... In fact, Power Hour for the last hour of downtime sounds like an awesome idea! Alas, I'm working on an hour-ish long presentation I have to give at my group meeting on Thursday.

As this is my first year I can't answer that directly, but I was planning on not even logging in, just searching the results list. https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/grfp/AwardeeList.do?method=loadAwardeeList Should be populated as soon as they post.

If you're using google Chrome there's a free extension called "Auto Refresh Plus" that is really straightforward -- that's what I'm using now, it refreshes so I don't have to, and will put a pop-up and play a sound when a certain word triggers (i.e. I'm using the search term "honorable").

I recommend the Pandora station "Classical Music for Studying" Helps keep the stress down.

All they have on the site that I've seen is the following in the help section: 4. I lost my username for the GRFP application. How can I retrieve it? You can click the Forgot Username link and retrieve your username after you have completed the screen form. Or contact the FastLane Help Central at 1-800-673-6188 (office hours: Monday-Friday, 7 am - 9 pm EST) or email fastlane@nsf.gov. For some reason they deleted the Forgot Username link, but I changed the URL from the password one to give the following (which works): https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/grfp/GRFPForgotUsername.do?method=loadForgotUsernamePage&type=fellow

Since I'm on the west coast and "working" on a presentation for group meeting anyway, I'll be up

GLORY Welcome to the FastLane Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). GRFP/FastLane will be unavailable from 10:00 PM ET Monday March 31st - 2:00 AM ET Tuesday, April 1st for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience *Edit* For anyone who comes looking for this post a year from now... The exact time my auto-refreshing macro picked up "unavailable" as a text update was exactly 5:00pm pacific time. */edit*

Sounds like the social media intern is not authorized (or informed enough?) to comment any further

With this and Google's Pokemon challenge... I have no idea how I'm ever going to finish this group meeting presentation. In case people haven't seen this yet... http://thenextweb.com/google/2014/03/31/can-now-find-catch-wild-pokemon-inside-google-maps/

NSF GRFP Web admin be like...

I just went digging through the results for NDSEG, and it looks like the award time is a good deal more variable than for NSF. Last year, the majority of awards went out April 3rd (which was a Wednesday), so we may be hearing as soon as next week. The year before, the awards seemed to be erratically placed between mid April and as late as August 1 (??). Anyway best of luck to everyone! And don't get your hopes up if you're waitlisted (which from last year looks like happens to a SHITLOAD of people)... better to assume it means rejected and have a pleasant surprise to find out you got it later than be destroyed again.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's there for everyone. Those are all comments in HTML coding so it is most likely just so the webmonkey putting the page up doesn't have to do more work than copy paste.

Time to get drunk anyway!!

Is it just me, or does the FastLane logo in a browser tab look like a cheap, pixelated knockoff of the Internet Explorer icon?

If you want some serious, no-punches-pulled quality feedback, try applying for an NIH F31 fellowship! They take forever to hand down fellowship decisions (I'm still waiting, and I applied last August), but everyone in the top 50 or 60% gets a thorough, ~12 page summary statement delivered by 3 main reviewers (from a study section of around ~25 people who discuss it in a closed section). It's actually useful feedback for a change haha

I can't comment on the delivery (this is my first app, too -- I'd assume it's through Fastlane), but I've seen the feedback sheets (from labmates) and they aren't entirely helpful, unfortunately.

mom's spaghetti

Yep, they said they'd notify him within a month if he was upgraded to Fellow.

Just got my letter as well, Honorable Mention. Also my labmate did, he got on the alternates list. Good luck to all for this and future fellowships!

^^ I wouldn't give up hope yet! My labmate who got the predoc award a few years back didn't get his award notification until early to mid April. It's possible the letters have been sent out already, but I don't think we have enough information to draw that inference. Anyway, hoping for the best!