OhTheStress

You're ascribing too much benevolence to our overlords.

Huh. Odd. That's kinda early still. I guess I can't do math though. Somehow I calculated now+1 = 3:00

They leave at 3:00?

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See page 26 of the thread edit: No rudeness intended. Sorry. That's just where it was first noticed.

My group does combustion, fuels, engines, etc. so we use Converge CFD. It's been an interesting learning curve. I went from project engineer using SW for pipes and the occasionally low-quality duct flow simulation, to jet fuel combustion lab research, to CFD, in less than a year. What a ride.

Sure does right now. I've got some spray burner simulations running in support of my lab work that I can work on but those take forever to run. I was hoping to get the NSF grant so I could get XSEDE access to run those.

Easy. Drink beer and work on our research (except the poor bastards like me who don't have enough data yet to do anything with and are locked out of their labs).

How we all feel waiting outside the Black Gate of our inboxes.

It's only a little after noon on the coast, and they are clearly doing something - I think we should see how today plays out.

Seconded.

Also still under eval. Curious to hear from thel or SFS; they are the two non-lurkers to get 4/13 updates.

I'm silver 1 at my absolute best with terran so no terrible threat. LeadJunkie#1170

You play SC2? Race/league? I'm down

Then maybe I owe you a beer? ?

Was it? I've lost track. Too many pages.

That is a gold mine! I'd buy you a beer if I could.

Guess so. It's COB now on the east coast and we're no more enlightened today.

Actual video evidence of Systems Plus managing the award notifications

Honestly, I'd more lean towards the "CYA" theory of their reply to you. I've worked with them before, and I absolutely wouldn't put it past them.

Or they're just saying that to get us to shut up and leave them alone, which is also quite plausible...

Good question. Maybe they know the finalists and are getting every finalist set up so that they can easily activate the acceptance forms for whoever the DoD picks? It's what I would do if I didn't know who actually won. Also, this is taken with a grain of salt because we don't know the veracity of alcoholistic's report (no offense), or whether SysPlus is just covering their asses by blaming the DoD for their own delays.

Man, if even SysPlus doesn't know who won, that sure as hell puts a nail in the coffin of our "the dates mean something" theory, at least for the different dates in April. No, I'm sure that dude is just laughing his invisible head off. "I don't need to condemn grad students to hell. They do it to themselves!"