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Hey all. I am just checking to see if anyone applied for this year's round of APS grants. I am still waiting to hear back on the Lewis and Clark Award. The announcements will be out sometime in May and have yet to be posted on the website. For those of you that applied last year, were you notified by mail or e-mail? I am keeping my fingers crossed!

I didn't get an award, but I did get really kind, helpful and detailed feedback from my reviewers. I was feeling very down until I read their positive comments. field: Entomology under Life sciences BI: E/VG/VG IM:VG/E/VG Year: 2nd year PhD, first time applying

Well, I did not get one. BUT I would still like to view my ratings sheets! Can anyone access theirs? The website says it will be down until awards are announced....which has definitely happened.

Yep, it is officially that "next week" that NSF has been making promises about. I had a dream a few nights ago that I bagged a GRFP followed by a dream that I did not get one last night. As the big reveal draws near...my confidence in waning. Even though I expect that reality will resemble my latest nightmare, I just want to know already!

Even though I am aware that the people that will be posting the results do not work at 12:27 AM on April 1st, I can't help but obsessively check the website anyway. I am plagued by thoughts of intense doubt, interrupted by bits of confidence in my application. Sigh. I just want it over with!

As time goes on, and my anxiety about the GRFP grows, I find myself obsessing about a few things. First of all, when looking at winning example essays from previous years, I came across a lot of proposals that included the references in slightly smaller text than the required font. I chose also to shrink down my references by 1.5 and abbreviate some of the journal titles because the huge number of necessary references. Well....did anyone else do this? I wonder if it will influence my research proposal negatively. As far as I know, I did not get disqualified yet! I also went through my essays and found a few terrible typos (Genus name not capitalized in one case, and a random extra period etc.). No one can know this, but how much do you think things like this matter? Did any one else happen to make silly errors that they didn't catch until it was too late? Oh the horror! To save my pride, when I don't get the GRFP I am going to blame my wretched tyops and not my wretched research!