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Who DIDN'T he recommend you contact? So yes. Does your name start with a B?

I WISH I'd been able to send my grad GPA/transcript in, but it was due before the end of my first semester. I'm with you on the NDSEG front - my research and career goals match closely around the DOD.

Yeah, seriously, it's what, a couple miles away? xD

oh snap! let us know if she calls you back (or do you have to call HER back?)!

Call back as in release notifications??

I reckon this applies to many other disciplines as well. Enjoy groaning many times over in horrible recollection and anticipation of 5-6 more years of it... http://www.geekosystem.com/engineering-professor-meme/2/

Thank you!

Oh, I didn't even realize that! My university requires health insurance through them (yay Massachusetts ): ) Another major plus.

See, that's what I wasn't sure about - I'm pretty sure now that the SCHOOL has to cover it and not the professor, but I am not 100% positive (and neither does my advisor seem to be). @nichol9 Haha, was waiting for that =P IF I get both (again, not likely, I'm not a superstar grad student), I'll probably end up with the NSF depending on whether or not I can defer my second year of funding from my school. If I can't, I'll take NSF because I can put NSF on reserve for a year. If I can, I'd probably go with NDSEG.

Thank you! Yeah, I had a professor tell me (falsely, I only recently realized) that if you got only a cost-of-tuition scholarship that you still had to work as an RA to make up the difference. Didn't affect me so much as it affected my ex, who almost turned down the NSF on this information (long story involving the loss of his advisor) until he learned that he wouldn't need to be an RA (and informed me as such as well). If I somehow managed to get the NDSEG, it would indeed be a tossup between the two, but given my field of research/career path, it may make more philosophical sense to go with an NDSEG. However, not getting my hopes up (:

Awesome! Thank you for clearing that up!

I did get the GRFP, but I am still hoping to get NDSEG - not only is it still an honor to be awarded both (even if you can only accept one), the NDSEG is full tuition and a higher stipend.

Raaaarrrr I wanna know I wanna know D:

Yeah, GradCafe doesn't work for me either on my iPad (but it's the only forum that behaves as such for me) If you tap on the pdf icon on JSTOR or another site, I would expect it to open in pdf format in safari and give you an "Open in GoodReader" button in the top right hand corner...at least that's how pdfs open for me out of email attachments - I'd have to try one of those sites to be sure.. You can also start from GR and do the "Web browse" and navigate to the articles from there. Often, I do my article "finding" on a real computer, download it into Dropbox, and file it away in GoodReader from there. Dropbox is an awesome tool for the iPad. I think the biggest thing to remember about the iPad is that it is an entirely different style of computing - there's no cursor, no ability to drag things around, nothing like a "real computer". But, that in and of itself is not a bad thing. It becomes a device, one that is less prone to normal computer errors and hangs, something which I appreciate as compared to my "real" computer. You'll find a good rhythm with it.

No way! D: Are you serious? Who told you, NSF?

LOOOOOOOL.

I don't know about demographics, but I know this, as compared to the NSF, is much more highly based on how well your research topic meshes with one of the military or DOD research lab interests.

I listed no contact info in any of my boxes except maybe one. No room for names or anything. >>; Hope that doesn't kill me.

You'll love keeping your personal and technical library in a single, slim device. (:

*pulls one up* In GoodReader, very easy, if the pdf is one that is normally highlightable on your normal computer (scans sometimes aren't).

Poll: Do most people who apply as seniors write proposals based on the work they did undergrad? I definitely didn't, but that's not why I didn't get it last year (ie: wasn't one of their critiques).

You don't realize how annoying reading stapled together packets of paper is until you get to read them on an iPad instead! Books can still somewhat hold their own, but the iPad also hides how long a document is (thus hiding a great deal of the discouragement factor (; )

I mean, at my school in general, I'd say publications are significantly less emphasized than accomplishing and building things, at least in engineering. As I've stated before, I'm very surprised I didn't get docked for my lack of journal papers as a first year grad student, and I doubt I'd have one before application season next year.

the stardust from whence we came.

You never know, someone could already have a federal fellowship and had to decline! I said half because I would totally do it - what are they going to do? "Oh, you called me back awkwardly, we're not going to give it to you after all." (: I'm sure they totally understand either way.