gellert
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The email from Rick said we needed to secure transportation with US flag airlines, and linked to the Fly America Act. However, the FAA also states that you can use int'l airlines with US gov't funding if their countries are in a bilateral/multilateral Open Skies Agreement. So if your country has signed one of these agreements, I take this to mean you can fly with one of their national airlines?
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On 6/20/2016 at 0:40 PM, Indie_soul said:
Thank you everyone for all of the helpful comments! Even with the webinars, there is still not enough information out there about the process. How did you guys go about finding a host abroad? For example, was it an already established collaboration, or was the "cold-emailing" involved? If the latter, how did you come up with a specific project that would be reasonable to expect to accomplish with your host during your stay, especially if it's a fairly short (2-3 months) one?
I cold emailed. I had an idea of the type of thing I wanted to study, but not a specific experimental design. After he said he'd be interested, I came up with five designs which I emailed him, and we then discussed over Skype which research line made the most sense and would be most practical to implement in 12 months.
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Oh my god, it's absolutely mad that some of you are still waiting to hear. Fingers crossed you find out soon.
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Sweden, I hope you're ready for me -- just got the email from Rick!
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Congrats, Norway people!! eta: And Australia!
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I don't have SAD, but I have medication-resistant depression, so I feel ya. I've been in remission for a while, but lately I've just been so stressed and anxious that I'm worried it's resurfacing. In some ways it's nice it's summer because at least I don't have to worry about as many rigidly-scheduled responsibilities, but on the other hand, it's miserable seeing how relaxed and happy everyone else is while I'm still toiling away under this dark cloud.
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Waiting on Sweden here. Fingers crossed for everyone!
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Congrats guys! Japan is on top of their game this year.
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I may be able to get funding from my host regardless, so I'm pretty sure I'm going, but I haven't made any definite plans yet.
I may think of applying to EAPSI in the future though! But my prospective host country is in Europe, so not this year.
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Assuming no one else has heard anything yet either. Fingers crossed it's soon!
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10 hours ago, brightup said:
I proposed early September, partly because I saw how crazy last year's result releases were. I really hope we find out soon, though -- it'd be nice to know before we have to submit the AAR.
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Apply the reviewers' comments, within reason -- you are unlikely to have the same reviewers next cycle. Your proposal in general should be improved commensurate with your greater experience as a second year student.
For BI, try finding more concrete outreach, and then performing it. This could mean mentoring students 1:1, talking about science on a public platform (blog, lectures in elementary/middle/high schools), or finding ways that any disadvantage from your own background has influenced your career and will contribute to your research being able to enhance the experiences of other disadvantaged people. You can't overdo BI in my experience. To the degree that BI can be integrated into both your research proposal and your personal statement, that's optimal.
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Does anyone's fastlane status say anything besides "Awaiting NSF approval" yet?
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1 hour ago, chaparral said:
This may be really dumb... but does anyone know what the subject line of the acceptance or the rejection email will say? lol
"2015 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Application Notification" is what it said last year. It doesn't really give anything away in the subject line, which is good or bad depending on your perspective.
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I have a random question. Does nsf look negatively on those that currently hold fellowships? I mentioned that I had a fellowship but stupidly did not mention that it is only 2 years. I tried to change the info but could not per nsf policy.
I already had a university fellowship when I applied, and it was cited in my reviews as meritorious and likely helped me get the NSF. Awards beget awards and so on.
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On 11/18/2015, 10:01:52, Queen of Kale said:
First off, shout out the the awesome person who shared their budget proposal w/me. That was super helpful. Also, I was wondering, is anyone else applying to both the GROW and the EAPSI programs for the same country? Did you find you could reuse much of the same application? My country has a pretty short minimum stay so most of my application remains the same - I am hoping there is no overlap in the review committees.
Would whoever this was be willing to share with me too? This is the last thing on my list and I'm having Issues. Thanks!
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edit! I don't think the answer is known.
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I had 7 references. They were footnotes, every single paper with >2 authors was 'et al.', and I used abbreviations in journal names. Seriously, there are no guidelines for the references, so do what you have to do to save space. It won't disqualify you.
It is an awkward balancing act though. Too few references and your project idea isn't theoretically supported. Too many and it's unoriginal.
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I took two, 200-level courses at a community college in 2012 (after completing my bachelors, one course a semester for 2 semesters). I do not think of them as graduate level courses at all, but technically I was a postbacc since I had already gotten my bachelors. Now I am in a PhD program for just under the 1 year mark. Do those two courses screw my eligibility? Would this qualify as part time graduate studies before my PhD?
How do I even list this on my application? Would I say I was an undergrad for these courses? or not applicable? It was a community college, so there are no official graduate studies there.
Nope you're totally fine. By graduate coursework they mean graduate-level classes at a graduate degree-granting institution, not cc classes you took for fun that just happened to be after you graduated.
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The guidelines say that fonts in figures also have to be Times New Roman 10-pt. Does anyone know how picky they are about this? I'm paranoid that sizing my figures will make the font too small for the guidelines.
Let's just put it this way: don't get yourself disqualified over something like font.
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Plenty of people start off as pre-med before realizing they can't make the grades and switching majors. It's nbd. It's your last 2 years that matter most.
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Ah awesome, congrats! I imagine you addressed the gap years in the personal statement? That probably made your application more interesting to the reviewers.
Well, I did research during my gap years (full-time), so I talked about how that furthered my academic goals and led to the development of my current research interests.
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An aside: I ended up postponing graduate school until spring 2016 because of an internship offer, so I can apply as an undergrad senior again (I think), because I haven't taken any grad classes. Has anyone else done this?
I did! I applied twice as an 'undergrad' (once while still in undergrad, the second time while reapplying after deciding to take 2 gap years) and got it as a first year grad student. As long as you haven't taken more than whatever number it is of grad hours, you're golden.
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Figured I'd start one of these for this year....
Still waiting to hear back from the SBE Directorate. Anyone else still in the waiting boat?