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No! Someone else had that time and I "The Price Is Right"ed them. I think the next highest guess was sometime thurs so I get most of Wed (and FYI too late to steal it from me now...lol)

In an effort to lighten the mood, I want to let you all know that I emailed PhD comics about how we're all freaking out and how long this post has gotten. I hope they can turn it into a cartoon b/c (lets face it) this is entertaining and (hopefully) something we'll be able to look back and laugh at. Anyone who is thinking about calling the NSF line, I encourage you to email PhD comics instead. PS- I'm still holding out for my 10:01am EST tomorrow.

There would be some poetic justice in learning that for every phone call they got, they delayed the release of the results by an hour. I'm sure that can't be true because we'd never get the results then. I personally would be a bit afraid to call and harass them... you might get blacklisted... after all I imagine that NSF gets seated alphabetically next to/near NSA alot. (j/k) Call center or not... it's really pointless to call them. Express your frustration here and hope they can't trace down your IP address... lol

Somehow I tend to believe this has more to do with them being sick of OCD grads/soon-to-be-grads incessantly trying to log on even though they knew they couldn't. I'll be honest and say I've tried ~10 times. Anyone else want to fess up? lol

I'm going to pull a cheap "The Price Is Right" trick and go w/ Wed Apr 8 at 10:01am EST

I think you mean Coast is closer to the west side of campus (yes, being from the east coast I still mess up east/west at times too). That being said, I'm really responding b/c Coast is definitely closer to Chem and at least some Bio and Physics. You're right that engineering is closer to Mesa. I don't know why engineering is completely across campus from Chem/Bio/Physics, but I have plenty of time to be annoyed by it when I walk between the two areas. As for housing, I live in grad housing and like it. Sure I'd love to live somewhere move vibrant or w/ a dishwasher and washer/dryer, but grad housing lets me live off my stipend and not be broke. I use my car to get to museums/etc during the weekends, and I'm not much of a clubber (so maybe I am the boring La Jollan). Anyhow, if you're thinking its cheaper to live far off campus and commute, I will warn you that the parking permits were something like $800 per quarter! (Thankfully its free for grad housing other than single grad) I know a lot of people do bike/bus from other areas, and many of the single grads off campus have roommates.

I just found this forum. In a "misery loves company" way, it helps to know I'm not the only one obsessively checking the site (and having done so for like a month now even though I knew it'd be late March at the soonest). I guess I knew I wasn't the only one, but it's cool to find others I can talk to about it. Good luck everyone! To answer the most recent question, I'm a 1st yr grad student so it doesn't affect any school/funding decisions for me. It does affect what direction my research takes. I hope they announce it soon for the people who have to decide.