boneh3ad
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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.
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Is using power tools while refreshing this page on my phone a safe practice?
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Actually, the biosciences typically have 20 awardees each year...it's the discipline I applied to, and have been waiting to hear whether anyone on here also applied and has heard anything.
I was going by percentages, not total awardees.
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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.
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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.
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Nah. At least today is Monday so we are promised an identically nerve-racking day tomorrow if it ends like Friday did.
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Absolutely no offense. BUT. Why would the DoD care about whales? Lol. Unless they have laser beams attached to their heads......
They only do that to sharks...
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Haha he's not me, but he may have a point about the conspiracy theories, especially since you're now thinking one of us is conspiring to insult you under another name.
By the way, thanks to the people who posted apologies, though you really didn't have to. I've been more amused than offended.
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.
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I read threads on grad cafe when I was originally applying to grad school in 2008, and have been since while waiting for fellowship decisions like NSF and this one. I just signed up today to say:
I got NSF, and if I also get NDSEG, I'm not going to post it on here because you're all a bunch of weird conspiracy-theorists that I had hoped had better things to do than harass the poor souls that posted their decisions on here, but it looks like I was wrong... very wrong.
Well that was constructive.
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I'm trying in vain to concentrate on this STM head design. I keep finding ways to search for things on the internet and invariably ending up refreshing this forum page...
Refreshing it with reckless abandon, I might add.
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Glad to see I'm not the only one.....
So what's everyone's poison this morning? Mine is "A Self Consistent Bathymetric Mapping Algorithm".... but I doubt Ill get through it until I hear about these decisions...
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.
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I agree with you in principle, it's just easier said than done.
I won't argue that.
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Just so you know, they've done this before, where they've given out acceptances in two rounds. In that situation though there was at least 1 week between round 1 and round 2. I don't think they have that kind of time on this go around.
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.
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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.
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like everyone else i cannot access https://ndseg.asee.org/award i get the wrong password error message. HOWEVER, how wierd is it that the URL is a good link? i mean for it to exist means that someone had to have gotten a notification right? because i cannot find it anywhere on the NDSEG homepage....yet the link is active.
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.
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True. Though gradcafe is probably less of a troll magnet than most places.
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.
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I guess we could have pulled off such a troll if we really wanted to, but it seems unlikely and would be a pretty nasty thing to do.
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.
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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.
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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...
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An airport? At least when that day inevitably comes wherein you have to turn to the person next to you and say "We have to leave the country", transportation is the easy part?
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.
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The true benefit of a fellowship - being able to remind yourself in those moments of sheer terror that you cost him nothing except his time......which is *usually* reassuring enough...
I just show up, see his door is closed, and disappear back into my windowless office for another week.
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.
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Your advisor TELLS you when he's gone?
...oh man, that would be the life. To know when not to show up for a 9AM meeting that isn't going to happen for months on end...
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.
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If I were him, I would so park in handicapped spaces anyway. xD
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.
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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.