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Oh dear god, no. I am never doing this again...well until I hit the job market I suppose. Five year contracts are fabulous.

The beach will be nice for sure! I'm so sick of getting snow in April...yuck. But no, I'm getting a Ph.D. in polisci.

Nope, simply their political science department for me, but I am totally excited nevertheless. What a fabulous program. And btw, IR/PS is absolutely amazing!

I think that might have been two days ago...

The biggest killer is often the broader impacts. This is where figuring out a good way of how to donate your time in the next six months is an awesome idea...

Absolutely true, I will go enjoy the beautiful beaches of San Diego, and try not to get eaten by a shark, and you can become a student in my current hometown. it seems like a fair trade!

That picture makes smile from ear to ear. Bye midwest, hello paradise...and game theory...

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I have declined all my remaining offers and I am going to UCSD!

Most places aren't going to be able to offer you much on that so I wouldn't weigh it too much into your decision. There are very few top tier Middle Eastern scholars in our profession.

It is exciting that US News will be releasing new rankings on April 23... That is pretty awesome, and they know what they're doing, I'm sure...

Welcome, Michigan is quite the awesome place, and we don't burn down our town when we win football games...

*cough*bullsh^t*cough*

They fixed a bug? This means nothing...

If you receive the NSF ask for an extension from all your schools stating the NSF as the reason. Then start the negotiation. Easy...

Hmm, I'm a a little worred about Coach. If he's up at 7am, this inherently means he drank all night...

This is fairly offensive.

No.

I don't think anyone at the NSF would care that I told people that I had access to a sublist for a specific field...

I don't know how you know this, but it is absolutely correct. And I am the contact person for the NSF in my department.

Anywhere closer to America the better.

We just got our list here. Plisar

Why not stay at Michigan?

I just declined an offer from Adaptations for dinner tonight. Unfortunately, I had other plans.

I don't know, the nice thing about these fellowships is that it gives you some possibility to work with faculty who would otherwise be unable to fund you. Ultimately, no one is going to let you in their lab if they don't like you. Faculty in the hard sciences and engineering just don't have the strength to do that. They'd kick you to the curb regardless of fellowship money.