engineerwoacause

Wow. From the bottom of my heart, I wish all of you the best of luck. Admittedly my anxiety for this did not hit hard until the last month or so, but I can not imagine what it would have been like without this thread of fellow applicants stressing away with me. Even through the negative trolling, whether you have been a frequent “poster” or just a casual reader on the forum...I truly believe those who visit sites like this, ask questions, and pester NSF/PI’s are the go-getting scientists of the future. It has been an honor. -engineerwoacause....out!

I don’t think I’d read too much into that. Seems to me like a person on the phone was told “early April” previously, and, as it is now early April, can only say that.

Yeah so it seems to me they are kept in the dark with the stock answer of “early April”

Email will contain the results

Just a gut feeling?

How y’all feeling? Think we’re getting that maintenance notification today?

Just out of curiosity, why do you say that?

So no maintenance today. thoughts?

So why are we thinking the re-upload of the 2017 list is indicative of our release? I may have missed something

I’m assuming not. As suggested previously, the amount of applicants/reference writers in the said areas are relatively minimal compared to the entire applicant pool. With such a long review process as is, I wouldn’t expect to see much difference.

I’m defeated. Please release.

Newest update. But probably unrelated..just like filling in my fellow anxiety-ridden friends

If you tried to access Fastlane homepage last night, that’s the message you received.

Oddly enough, the maintenance period did change a bit. From 10pm to 8am now..

It seems to me they are just sticking with their generic answer of early April

It seems anytime before 9pm the day before. However, my skeptisism is due to the first alert. If there was in fact two alerts prior to awards being released, I would expect them to be back to back. As someone previously mentioned, last year’s forum (which two alerts were shown prior to the release) had no posts in which just one alert was present; hence why the two should be close together in my speculation. But technically we should have until 9pm tonight before giving up completely on tomorrow

It seems, based on all the previous years, Fastlane will be shutdown the same time period results are sent out. So without that second alert, I’d say it’s unlikely

I hate to say it, but it doesn’t seem like we’re getting that second alert.

But based on last year, I would not yet disregard the chance of another announcement; it does closely resemble the first announcement of last year..

My apologies, but I am not quite following. First (bottom) announcement: Fastlane will be down Friday night- Saturday morning Second (upper) announcement: Fastlane will be down Thursday night - Friday morning. So we tentatively have the first announcement, just waiting on the second. Or am I still way off? Haha

So theoretically...we should expect one more alert indicating a smaller shutdown for this evening/tomorrow morning if tomorrow is our day

Hmm..yeah that’s making it tough to believe we’re getting results tomorrow morning.

Looks like another day of constantly refreshing Fastlane between experiments!

I suppose it could be just luck, but seems like a large enough sample size that some explanation must be behind it in my opinion.

Hahah that’s beautiful. Gotta love people...