iluv2fly1

Wow. I hadn't seen that before. I had been worried that I didn't address the broader impacts and intellectual merit sufficiently. But now I know why I got the fellowship. My history, research and future plans pretty much all fit into that broader impacts category...

I'm in grad school now. The question is do I switch for a Ph.D. Better school, with fellowship, but I'm afraid switching will take too many years.

I think I know where I am going, but I might reconsider with this. You?

Infrastructure systems

The more you post, the more you freak out.

As I understand it, they choose the people to award it to without regard to race or gender. Then they go back and allocate a few additional awards to the top minorities and females not selected already. So that means that depending on how many minorities there are and how many additional awards there are, they could end up going quite far down the list for minorities.

The later...

Push the little quote box to the top right of the person's message.

Every day I think its the next day...

I believe that is really only true within the scientific disciplines. The arts students I know are often not offered any funding at all or are offered funding that is impossible to live on.

I can't believe that they would wait that long. People need time to make a decision and an nsf completely changes a lot of decisions.

I was thinking that this would also mean that there really isn't time to find an adviser that you sync with. I'm waiting on one school, but I think that even if I get this, I will go to one of the schools that I have visited and found potential advisers in.

I certainly hope so. I'm killing myself waiting on this...