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On the contrary, I don't care what the criteria are (unless it was killing babies or something). For $30k x 3, I would be happy to accept it regardless, haha.

No NDSEG for me either... and that is my last year I can apply (I think). I swear, if it is my undergrad grades still screwing me, that is quite ridiculous since I had 4 semesters of graduate grades to hand them to outweigh them. The only other thing is if my statement wasn't good enough. Ah well, at least my fiancée will have a job here shortly so I won't be poor. Time to be a kept man for the next 3 years.

Is using power tools while refreshing this page on my phone a safe practice?

I was going by percentages, not total awardees.

Also consider the percentage of acceptances per discipline. If we had 100 aerospace engineers in here you would expect roughly 20 acceptances. With something like biology, you expect less than 10. It is hard to judge.

I am starting to regret even checking this forum again for this thread. I probably should have just waited it out in ignorant bliss because waiting like this, regardless of the outcome, is worse.

Nah. At least today is Monday so we are promised an identically nerve-racking day tomorrow if it ends like Friday did.

They only do that to sharks...

Clearly the trolls are now on to phase 2: inundating the ASEE offices with phone calls so no one can work thus further delaying the release of the rest of the decisions.

Well that was constructive.

Refreshing it with reckless abandon, I might add.

Filling out a purchase order to get an array of plasma actuators, trying to finish this bit of homework, studying for quals... not much of it is actually getting finished.

I won't argue that.

Of course they said that Friday as well. I think we all just need to take a step back and take a deep breath.

The difference being that the running theory here is that not all of that "first round" has been sent out yet. Usually they give a week to decide for the first round people and then when they get all their responses they send out a second round to the people who are next on the list now that spots have opened up. This time it sounds like they only sent out a portion of the original group. That is how I have interpreted this anyway.

Keep in mind that the historical acceptance rate for aerospace is around 19% if I recall correctly. I would expectto have heard more from that area on here if they had all gone out already. Basically, I doubt they have all been sent out already.

That is the same link they use every year. You could have typed that in back in October and gotten the same results. The important thing is when they start letting people into it.

Fair enough. All I know is that I had a dream last night that I woke up this morning and had an email saying I got it. Then I woke up for real this morning and was quite disappointed.

And yet there are so many examples of this on the internet. It is both sad and funny, really. Almost as sad as how crazy this whole process has made me.

I can't speak for all of us, but if you read through the stuff posted by jendoly and myself I think it is obvious that it was all (mostly) in good fun. What would be our motivation for handing out -1 rep for no reason? Clearly someone was being a d-bag but I would bet it wasn't one of the several people joking around earlier. At any rate, I think it is pretty safe to say that that none of us truly know what is going on. The only people who know with 100% certainty if awards have gone out are ASEE and the folks who claim to have gotten one and only ASEE would know why there are seemingly so few. I think at this point it is safe to say we should all just chill out, enjoy our Sunday and wait for a potential round of notifications early in the business week.

Our wind tunnel complex is the reason I came here. It is pretty fantastic. On another note, I am suddenly feeling like I ought to not have quite so much information on my forum profile...

Well it isn't a large airport. There just isn't room on campus for large wind tunnel facilities anymore, so we have new (albeit somewhat spartan) lab facilities out at the airport here, which is technically on campus I suppose.

I think I went a month at one point without seeing mine and only getting a couple emails here and there. Then again, my lab is off campus at the local airport, so that would certainly not help (or hurt?) that matter.

We usually know when he is out of town, though sometimes not until the last minute. We often know he is sick but not until 20 minutes into us waiting in the conference room for him to show up to that weekly meeting and then we get an email from his secretary. I think most advisors were created alike in that they don't tell us a lot. Shoot, for the first 3 semesters here, I was honest to God scared of my advisor to a certain degree.

When I know he is gone (out of town or sick at home) I do sometimes park in his reserved spot because it is infinitely closer to the main building than my random spot ends up being. They don't tow in that lot unless someone calls it in, and since he is gone, he can't call it in.