just.for.the.grfp

No, dear, you're just like everyone else here, with the sole exception of me. Someday you'll reach my level of being too. As a way of a hint, here's how:

Not half as sad as yours, dearie.

Hahahaha, you people are utterly pathetic. Hahahahaha. I laugh at your stupidity. Hahaha. I actually won back on the 10th, believe it or not (I bet you won't, but I don't give a $#!%). Oh, and as my parting gift, here's a 'lil something for Bio God. Not that I agree with him (or her don't want to offend any of the hot babes here or anything), but

Yeah, tonight at 10:52 EST. Regarding the date, I don't know. The original awards went out on the 10th, so maybe they're using the same letter? I'm just totally psyched to have won.

Woohoo! Look what I just got! They seem to be notifying the winners first, 2 of my friends in limbo have yet to be notified. National Science Foundation Division of Graduate Education 4201 Wilson Boulevard Arlington, Virginia 22230 April 10, 2009 Application Number 10000*****: Dear: [My Name], Congratulations! I am pleased to inform you that you have been selected to receive a 2009 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) award. This award is based on your abilities and accomplishments as well as your potential to contribute to strengthening the vitality of the U.S. science and engineering enterprise. The stipend rate for 2009-10 is $30,000 per twelve-month fellowship year, prorated at $2,500 per month. Fellowships are funded for a maximum of three years and may be used in any three 12-month units starting in Summer (June 1) or Fall (Sept 1) over a five-year period that begins in 2009 (your award year). To facilitate your acceptance and begin the processing of the fellowship award, please follow the instructions below.

That's pretty far out man, I'm like stoned immaculate, or something dudes and dudettes, and this is giving me the spins hehehehe. Dude, Friar man, we sould like meet up sometime, Im gonna frind you on facebook and we should meet up and get wasted. Dude when will they announce this #$@&ing award? I'm like all wound up tryin' to find out. Peace brothers and sistahs!

Ok xanax, this is utter crap. I will proceed to tear your stupid arguments apart, one at a time. The government has many important functions, but funding non-competitive graduate students is not one of them. If you can't get funding from the school, aren't in the 10% that gets awards, and can't get funding from any other source, then you should be able to grasp the message: No one thinks that you are worthy of grad school, and they're all probably right. This provides American jobs? Nonsense. This creates no jobs, it merely funds graduate students, the 10% of whom are worthy are helping to keep us scientifically competitive internationally. Any others who are funded are a waste of our money. On the other hand, this "expensive machinery", like the F-22, provides over 30,000 manufacturing jobs to blue collar workers, who are suffering most in the downturn, as well as providing upgrades to our Air Force, which hasn't seen a new fighter in decades. It also provides employment for the pilots, the maintenance crews, and the people who make replacement parts. And considering that they've already spent or pledged to spend more money this year in the stimulus, bailouts, budget, etc., than they have spent in our entire history, I doubt that they plan on subsidizing your failures in grad school.

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A fake email. One of my friends, who is going to get his @$$ beat, sent it to me. Damn CS majors... :x

I've been getting a 404 error ever since I tried logging in immediately after receiving the email. I hope it's not a scam/phishing attack, although I don't see what they stand to gain by directing me to a broken website .

Fine, don't believe me. But I did receive it, like it or not.

No idea, it's just what was at the bottom of the email. Maybe the contractor sends email from an Australian server? Makes no sense to me, but we'll see.

I'll call tomorrow and ask about that, but anywho, WOOOHOOOO!

It is man, and thanks for the congrats!

Mechanical Engineering. And my last name starts with "A", if that's of any help.