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Yeah, thanks for that. I never said I was better than anyone else. I just got annoyed by all the troll comments.

This post explains things pretty well: http://www.stanford.edu/~pgbovine/fellowship-tips.htm

Looks like they did downvote... So you're going to call us trolls for 15 pages or so and then downvote us when we give advice? Nice.

Still not convinced huh? I just got my award package but I won't bother posting it since people will just say it was photoshopped or something...

Yeah, I got the NSF; unless I was trolling about that too of course.

I guess I should have clarified that my post was meant as sarcasm; one of those notifications was mine

You're forgetting that this is an elaborate conspiracy between all of those who posted notifications.

True. Though gradcafe is probably less of a troll magnet than most places.

Computer Science.

Well, I had assumed that all notifications would be sent out at around the same time, maybe with a slight gap. I can understand the frustration -- especially since I felt the same way on Friday. In any case, I clearly didn't anticipate the level of scepticism that followed. I guess we could have pulled off such a troll if we really wanted to, but it seems unlikely and would be a pretty nasty thing to do. I'm pretty sure it isn't alphabetically by name since I doubt I would have been notified in that case (of course, I can't support it without posting things that I don't want to).

I don't think so. The pointless downvotes and "troll" comments say it all.

Yeah, this thread seems a lot nastier than the NSF thread. Winning is frowned upon and anyone who posts an acceptance is a "troll."

That seems hard to believe, especially given the downvotes on posts by those who won the award. Anyone who thinks this is an elaborate setup by trolls is just being paranoid. That said, it does seem possible that some award notifications have not been sent yet.

It did happen; I got one as well.

Actually, you can accept both. The way it works is you use the NDSEG for the first 3 years while using the two reserve years of the NSF and forfeiting the the third year of the NSF, Then you use the remaining 2 years of the NSF so it works out to 5 years of funding.