rachaelski

I am feeling a little better now that I found a spelling error in my rejection letter.

I got rejected. Boo. But I suppose it's nice I won't have to live across the world from my husband.

Are there any computer geniuses among us? Someone who could hack into the Fulbright system and tell us if we made it? I kid, I kid.....but seriously!

Congrats! That's excellent, and you are so lucky to have a ruling-breaking campus advisor!!!! Go out and celebrate while the rest of us fret! I love the Netherlands! A good friend of mine teaches photography in Leiden. YAY SlyStone!!!!

Ha, thanks for the reality check! Side note, my Fulbright Campus Advisor works in the International Studies department, so it includes international students and student programs for studying abroad. Like most states, NM is in a HUGE budget shortfall, and in turn the University is as well. An international student told me that my university is cutting international exchange programs by 66%! I couldn't believe it. All programs are cutting and being cut, but 66%? I am so disappointed. International students are such an important part of a university community. It breaks my heart. That was about a minute of NOT thinking about Fulbright. I need to go check my email again. Good luck to all my Fulbright-hopeful friends on here.

My advisor just emailed me back and said "Yes, I heard they are sending out notifications on the 21st. So, we'll see." Am I overreacting to assume doom based on his 14 word response?

I emailed my Fulbright Campus Advisor last night, I am hoping he responds in some way that gives me a clue...or maybe he'll just tell me!

This is terrible. I hate waiting!!!!!

I decided that I am not telling anyone about the new date. I figure it gives me time to process or to shock the hell out of them!!!!

So we are going to know if we get to spend the next 2-5 months waiting again in LESS THAN 2 DAYS!!!!!!! OMG. I am going to cry or vomit or both.

Dear Fulbright, Please stop trying to kill me with confusion and anticipation. Thanks, rachaelski

That's true. Wow, less than a week.

Holy Crap! I kind of wish I didn't know that. My panic and impatience are planned out through the 31st. Now I have to cram it into less than a week! Ahhhhhhh And, of course, I will panic if I don't get the email on the 24th. This is sure a curveball!

I'd guess that in your field of study it wouldn't be a big deal. I am in education in the Southwest, and it's not really a big deal here. My advice is to feel it out as you go. If you are at a national conference, dress more conservatively than you would normally (it's always cold at conferences, wear a cardigan).

I am so thankful the semester is starting and that I have a paper to get ready to submit for publication (due on Feb 1) to keep me busy!

It isssssss. Now give me all your money.

I predict that two weeks from now this thread is going to be bananas,

I cannot speak to having children while in graduate school, but I am married and went back to school full-time. I suggest having frank conversations about what life will be like in graduate school, the little money you can hope for, etc. Will your wife work while you are in school? My husband works full-time, which has made the cut in my income a little less dramatic. Also, I try to take a day or two off from graduate school work--usually weekends, because it works with my schedule. I also cook a nice dinner a couple days a week. It separates me from school for a bit, and allows a little more time to spend with my hubs.

I love this thread as much as I do graduate school. I'm sure I will be harassed for saying this, but I think the life of a full-time graduate student is much easier than working a real job. I will substantiate my life before graduate school and what I love about it currently. I was pretty normal, I went to college right out of high school and graduated in 4 years. Then I went on to get my Master's in International Affairs, full-time student, straight out of undergrad. Next, I joined Teach for America, while completing my 2 year commitment, I was also working on my Master's in Teaching and my state credentials. That' was pretty difficult, considering I worked at an extended day school, with students in school from 7:30-5. I taught for 2 more years, and then I began my PhD program full-time (my first year of PhD I was a part-time student, while teaching full-time). Of all my grown-up experience, post-college, my time in the Master's in International Affairs and my PhD studies have been the easiest. That's not to say I don't work hard, but my lifestyle and the organization of my life is much easier. I love having control of my time! It's nice that I can make time to run or see a movie. This perk was reaffirmed when I did a fellowship last summer for my state's higher education department. I was in an office (with no window) 40 hours a week! Yuck. Shackled to the desk. Boo. I love the opportunities for collaboration and exchange of ideas. My advisor and I are teaching a class together, I am the instructor for an undergraduate course in teaching writing and she is the professor for a similar graduate level course. We are teaching them together as a single class, with AMAZING projects. So much fun. I work with friends and share ideas. It's been especially rewarding because my program as quite a few Native American students who are brilliant, but a couple are non-native speakers. Helping a friend with their paper (grammar and mechanics) is so rewarding and creates a great sense of community. I love reading from 9am to 11pm and truly enjoying what I am reading about. I love riding my bike to campus, and taking my part to reduce my carbon footprint. I love teaching my amazing undergrads, who are future teachers and will further impact the schools in our community. Those are just a few of the things I love about graduate school. I am so thankful that I have a supportive husband who was okay with me halving my income in order to be a full-time student again. Having the time to truly think and process big ideas is not something everyone has the opportunity to do.

Vietnam notified in late March last year! Hopefully it is the same time frame this year (assuming I make it to the next round).

I'm fulbright obsessed again. I planned to apply for other stuff, but it just didnt happen. If I don't get past round 1, I will apply for some campus scholarship & fellowship stuff (actually I will do it either way). Can I just sleep for the next 2 weeks and wake up when the letters are emailed?

Baaaaaa! You beat me, I was looking up the timeline.

On Jan 31, applicants are told if they make it to the final stage, then between March and June finalists are told if they received the grant, if they are an alternate, or if they just didn't get it. The timing in the last step depends on the host country and their process of selecting scholars.

It's Jan. 31 on the timeline. We are all waiting.

Okay, now that I've thought about it....the 31st is FOREVER away. AGhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I wanna know! My husband and I talked more about the FB, and now I am totally excited and want it. I wanna be a bad-ass FB scholar!!!!