Huh, that's interesting. I went from Mantz to McCarty, but I don't know when. I assumed it was the 18th, but maybe not. I know that Mantz took over from Winslow about a year ago, little more. Don't know why this latest switch happened--I assumed it was a year-long tenure. We're all in the dark as to whether any of it is negative, positive, or means anything at all...
Wrote a script to check fastlane and email me if it's back up. Running it as a cronjob every minute. Waiting for my android phone to make the happy new email sound.
The above was based on the Results stream. I think the forums are more reliable.
I finally managed to dig up the relevant parts of the previous years' forum threads:
2007:
---> Friday, March 23, 11:40 PM ET : List goes up online
2008:
---> Monday, March 31, 2:00 PM ET : Some people see "congrats, fellow" when they log into Fastlane, other eventual awardees do not. Others hack the website to deliver the spreadsheet even though it's not linked yet. In other words, NSF screwed up.
---> Tuesday, April 1, 8:00 AM ET: NSF posts full list online
2009: (1st batch) / (2nd batch)
---> Friday, April 10, 1:00 AM ET : First batch of awards only, no HMs, ~900 awards (HMs and the rest of the awards given in mid-May). Rejection letters also sent to those not in limbo waiting on the final award number. Fastlane went down for scheduled maintenance at Thursday, April 9, 11:00 PM ET previous to the list going up.
---> Tuesday, May 19, 1:00AM ET : Second batch of awards goes up. Fastlane went down for scheduled maintenance a couple hours before, at Monday, May 18, 11:00PM ET.
2010:
---> Tuesday, April 6, 12:50 AM ET : List goes up on Fastlane. Fastlane went down for scheduled maintenance at Monday, April 5, 11:00 PM ET previous to this.
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In regards to 2009, when they only awarded the first batch, this was what the NSF said at the time:
"Due to the complexity of the current budget situation, the 2009 GRFP awards will be announced in installments based on fields of study and other factors. The first installment is now available on FastLane. Awardees, as well as Applicants not recommended for funding, have been notified by email. Recipients of Honorable Mention and any additional Fellowship award offers will be forthcoming. Applicant ratings sheets will be available after all award announcements have been made. We thank you for your patience. "
I think it's entirely feasible that they will do something similar early this week, unfortunately, and that some of us will be stuck in limbo afterwards. I hope not.
At any rate, I think this rules out any chance we'll hear before the middle of the night between Monday and Tuesday! And apparently what we're looking for is Fastlane going down at 11PM ET, with emails and the list showing up at around 1AM following, unless they decide to depart from the last couple years' pattern.
Also, I really hope next year when people are obsessing about this, someone stumbles upon this post so they don't have to recreate the legwork I just did. That way I'll feel like I didn't just avoid all the things I should be doing for nothing.... ;-)
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EDIT: Updated to include the 2nd batch of awards in 2009, which also were a late-Monday/early-Tuesday, just like the 2010 awards. Hmm...Monday night, then?
thanks for the -1 rep points......'NOT sorry if upset someone by pointing out, or rather "quipping," on facts regarding the undeniable exponentially increasing socialist agenda of the US govt. which has already been discussed in this thread [so yes be aware there are tea-partiers and birthers in technical fields and yes I am aware its not Obama doing - since it trully started in the 1850s with radical republican reconstruction]. ANYWAYS....not lookin to troll....NEW topic on NSF anyone?
