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HEAfrogfish

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    New Jersey, USA
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    functional morphology, fluid locomotion, frogfish
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    Ph.D.

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  1. I wrote an application for the GRFP 2017-2018 cycle, and even submitted it! However, my lab advisor and I reread my full application and compared it to the successful ones available online and from former students at the University I attend, and we decided to pull my application so I could apply during this current cycle (2018-2019). If you already have a set lab and advisor, especially someone who has a project open that you are jumping onto, you could still have a very successful application as a first year graduate student. The biggest problem I faced when writing my application last year was that I switched which project I was writing about one month before the deadline. That's a short time to start researching a whole new project! If you already have a project in mind, and an advisor willing to help you along the way, and a lab full of resources that you can write about, then write up an application. The worst thing that happens is that you decide right before the deadline not to submit and instead wait for the following year. You can save your material and use it as a jumping block for the following year. I definitely encourage you to write up an application for this year, whether you submit it or not, because it's a great way to practice writing a grant, and is also an excellent way to see how well you can articulate the project you plan on spending your graduate work on.
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