Does anyone else remember a mention of results being released around 3 am Eastern time? I might just be telling myself that in an effort to justify this evening's wasted anticipation
edit: here's a quote from someone in the archives of this thread
"They will also send a "sorry lol" email around the same time. Last year mine came at 3:05 AM and had the subject line"2011 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Competition Result.""
I applied to "Law and Social Science," not realizing that historically there has only been one (!) award given out in that subject area. So really, there is so small a chance that my worrying about it is silly.
Lol! That would be so sad. I had mentally prepared for it being next week, but then I lurked excessively on this thread and now...spaz time. Glad we are all here together though!
I just logged into the GRFP Fastlane and it seemed to work even though we are in the maintenance time window, so they might not be uploading our results (?)
My two theories are:
that the admissions committee just takes a long time to do the best job possible, or
that they're soulless and want to make us wait for as long as possible before being like
...having your significant other break up with you, or getting rejected from your top choice school? What about getting rejected from everywhere you applied?
Personally, I think I'd rather keep the boy and not get in anywhere. But I haven't been this stressed out and miserable since my last boyfriend dumped me!