vannik Posted April 8, 2009 Posted April 8, 2009 I cannot wait to get rejected from the NSF, have to tell my adviser and listen to him say "you should have done better on the GRE's and gotten a 4.0" after months of him telling me grades don't matter and the only thing that matters now is my research. Dogfish Head Sahtea anyone? Is it out yet?! AMG!
hhog Posted April 8, 2009 Posted April 8, 2009 I cannot wait to get rejected from the NSF, have to tell my adviser and listen to him say "you should have done better on the GRE's and gotten a 4.0" after months of him telling me grades don't matter and the only thing that matters now is my research. Dogfish Head Sahtea anyone? Is it out yet?! AMG! Please tell me you are in the Boston area.
parsimony Posted April 8, 2009 Posted April 8, 2009 PSi_light wrote: vice wrote:10am tomorrow! 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) it was me! 11:26 am ET thursday Hey! I guessed Wednesday 4/8 at 15:16.2342! I apologize for thinking that someone would pick up on the "Lost" numbers... and yes, I'm lame.
omusubi Posted April 8, 2009 Posted April 8, 2009 Someone a few pages back suggested that they use the extra stimulus money to go back and give awards to last year's HMers. As a 2008 HM, is it wrong of me to actually be holding out a miniscule amount of hope that this could be true? Realistically I don't need it - I'm in grad school, I have funding. But at the same time, the siren call of the GRFP is just that strong... Wouldn't that cause more problems for people who applied in 2007? 2006? and so on? I'm not sure....
monkeywrench Posted April 8, 2009 Posted April 8, 2009 Wouldn't that cause more problems for people who applied in 2007? 2006? and so on? I'm not sure.... Oh, I'm sure it would. There's no WAY they would actually give awards retroactively (causing problems for earlier applications, grad school decisions, etc.) I think it was just presented as an amusing idea. That said, tell me the 2008 HM'ers wouldn't trample each other to take it...
zetetic Posted April 8, 2009 Posted April 8, 2009 it does that every night at exactly the same time, don't take it seriously.. (i have a python script monitoring the award page for changes) http://bash.org/?400459 Been waiting for you to reply for awhile, sir buttsssssss. (note: you may have posted recently, but despite my obsession over checking this forum thread as of late, I can't say I've been able/wanted to/had the stomach to stay up with all of the most recent postings...)
buttsssssss Posted April 8, 2009 Posted April 8, 2009 http://bash.org/?400459 Been waiting for you to reply for awhile, sir buttsssssss. (note: you may have posted recently, but despite my obsession over checking this forum thread as of late, I can't say I've been able/wanted to/had the stomach to stay up with all of the most recent postings...) hi ZETETIC ELENCH. everyone's going crazy, hope we all get it. all the 'smart girls are nasty' talk last night made this place particularly unappealing, but i think it is obvious we all want the award and don't want to be informed second hand due to weird glitches that we didn't get it (i learned from someone else last year, when i was happily ignoring the whole situation, waiting for email).
tensor Posted April 8, 2009 Posted April 8, 2009 I think we should know by the end of this week. Im basing this on the fact that the engineers have to tell their fellowship whether they are accepting/declining by this Friday. Any thoughts?
whease Posted April 8, 2009 Posted April 8, 2009 Hey! I guessed Wednesday 4/8 at 15:16.2342! I apologize for thinking that someone would pick up on the "Lost" numbers... and yes, I'm lame. Can't believe I missed that. Nice one.
vice Posted April 8, 2009 Posted April 8, 2009 Check this out: https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity ... =1&au=&ck= Looks like they are going to contract out the GRFP process. Note that they expected to release the full solicitation on April 6.
mtlve Posted April 8, 2009 Posted April 8, 2009 I think we should know by the end of this week. Im basing this on the fact that the engineers have to tell their fellowship whether they are accepting/declining by this Friday. Any thoughts? Didnt people have to tell NDSEG today? I do not think NSF even cares about the other fellowships, so they will release it whenever they feel like doing so.
blargh Posted April 8, 2009 Posted April 8, 2009 Didnt people have to tell NDSEG today? I do not think NSF even cares about the other fellowships, so they will release it whenever they feel like doing so. i think ndseg extended their deadline to friday.
buttsssssss Posted April 8, 2009 Posted April 8, 2009 Check this out: https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity ... =1&au=&ck= Looks like they are going to contract out the GRFP process. Note that they expected to release the full solicitation on April 6. haha, they hate this more than we do
vice Posted April 8, 2009 Posted April 8, 2009 2008 - March 31 2007 - March 26 2006 - March 30 2005 - April 9 I think these are the dates for the last few years, give or take a little. 2005 is the closest to this year. I feel like they might want to not be "as late" as 2005, so maybe they will try to do it tomorrow or the day after.
blargh Posted April 8, 2009 Posted April 8, 2009 Check this out: https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity ... =1&au=&ck= Looks like they are going to contract out the GRFP process. Note that they expected to release the full solicitation on April 6. it appears from this that the process has been contracted out to ASEE for the past few years anyway. perhaps it is a routine practice.
vannik Posted April 8, 2009 Posted April 8, 2009 Please tell me you are in the Boston area. Yes, I am from that area, and you scare me. Thanks!
vice Posted April 8, 2009 Posted April 8, 2009 Yeah, true. It looks like they contract it out every few years. I wonder if 2005 was also a contract out year?
curiousD Posted April 8, 2009 Posted April 8, 2009 maybe this is stupid but is anyone currently monitoring fastlane/nsf sites?
blargh Posted April 8, 2009 Posted April 8, 2009 Yeah, true. It looks like they contract it out every few years. I wonder if 2005 was also a contract out year? actually ... maybe it was their first year doing nsf stuff? "The services are currently being performed by American Socity for Engineering Education, Inc. (ASEE) under Contract Number DGE-0426243 which was awarded on March 13, 2004. The ceiling value of the contract (Base Period plus all option periods) is $14,470,216.00."
gb6 Posted April 8, 2009 Posted April 8, 2009 Sounds to me like we have someone new to pester on the phone! Who's calling ASEE tomorrow bright and early?? :idea: :idea: :idea:
whease Posted April 8, 2009 Posted April 8, 2009 Sounds to me like we have someone new to pester on the phone! Who's calling ASEE tomorrow bright and early?? :idea: :idea: :idea: Umm... seriously? Anyway, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the GRF Operations Center administered by ASEE? So wouldn't they be the ASEE folks who we would need to contact, and haven't people been contacting them plenty already? Plus I don't think anyone needs two more pages about the merits (or lack thereof) of said pestering...
Neuronerd Posted April 8, 2009 Posted April 8, 2009 Just out of curiousity: has anyone ever heard of someone getting hm 3 years running? I'm on 2 now... A rather ignominious record.
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