NSF GRFP 2009-2010

[DrBones]

  On 4/6/2010 at 3:32 AM, sarajune said:

So is the consensus that results will be posted before e-mails are sent out?

There was about a 20 minute delay for me personally between when I found outon the site, and received an e-mail. The e-mail came later.

[oilnvinegar]

sweeet...Soon, perhaps, most of us will get to stop waiting anxiously for an email and get to start bemoaning its contents. Fun fun fun!

[whalo22]

okay all you phd level computer science hackers, time to go to work and find a way to get that list!!

[fifthneville]

So let's say that the emails were sent/received at ~1:20 AM (Eastern) last year, and the results were posted at ~1:00* AM...does anyone remember if the website went down at 11:00pm or midnight last year?

Edited April 6, 2010 by fifthneville

[thecircumstance]

Be thankful that you didn't watch the end of the NCAA hoops final. Butler was SO CLOSE to beating Duke. Yet another bad omen. With Duke winning the championship, I'm not expecting to hear about the GRFP till Friday.

[Palgrave]

NSF set up a website to answer questions about the announcement timing. I have checked it and it is as accurate as the speculation above.

Edited April 6, 2010 by Palgrave

[xkindofbluex]

  On 4/6/2010 at 3:46 AM, thecircumstance said:

Be thankful that you didn't watch the end of the NCAA hoops final. Butler was SO CLOSE to beating Duke. Yet another bad omen. With Duke winning the championship, I'm not expecting to hear about the GRFP till Friday.

Haha, for real, I already experienced one heart attack and serious, serious disappointment when watching the game. I actually might not be upset if the second round of that got put off.

[btown]

Is anyone thinking about coming to GA Tech next year?

[fifthneville]

  On 4/6/2010 at 3:47 AM, Palgrave said:

This NSF website prognosticates the announcement timing with as much accuracy as the speculation above.

So I asked if I'd get the NSF...and it said yes. Further empirical testing to begin shortly. It's a nice diversion from clicking refesh.

[meankney]

  On 4/6/2010 at 3:48 AM, fifthneville said:

So I asked if I'd get the NSF...and it said yes. Further empirical testing to begin shortly. It's a nice diversion from clicking refesh.

I got "definitely" for the awards being announced tonight and "definitely" for me receiving one! I think this thing is totally legit.

[CarpodacusAculeatus]

The combination of the end of that basketball game, studying for a very difficult (for me) stats exam, and anticipating the announcement is getting to be too much! I really envy my cat about now: all he worries about is when he's getting fed.

[meankney]

Wow, 174 users reading this topic right now. CRAZY!

[volnam]

  On 4/6/2010 at 3:53 AM, CarpodacusAculeatus said:

The combination of the end of that basketball game, studying for a very difficult (for me) stats exam, and anticipating the announcement is getting to be too much! I really envy my cat about now: all he worries about is when he's getting fed.

Haha, I always get jealous of my cat when I'm stressed. He's sleeping in my lap, now

[btown]

  On 4/6/2010 at 3:48 AM, fifthneville said:

So I asked if I'd get the NSF...and it said yes. Further empirical testing to begin shortly. It's a nice diversion from clicking refesh.

I got a "no way" LOL

[meankney]

  On 4/6/2010 at 3:55 AM, btown said:

I got a "no way" LOL

Maybe it's payback for your joke! ;-)

[fifthneville]

Q: Will the NSF announcement come before midnight?

A: My sources say no.

Q: Will the NSF announcement come before 1AM?

A: Ask again later.

Q: Will the NSF annoucement come before 2AM?

A: My sources say no.

This is starting to sound eerily like the call center...

[geodrake]

  On 4/6/2010 at 2:38 AM, Coffee_Wine said:

But speculating is so much fun:-)

Wouldn't that just be cruel if they changed the URL so that those of us who use a bookmark or the autocomplete in our address bar to go to the ratings sheets won't see the awards appear? Even crueller would be if somehow the redirect to "page not found" gets cached on our machines so we go to the evil Page of Taunting in perpetuity... glad I'm not their SysAdmin... might be tempting

[sarajune]

Does anyone have a link to the facebook page(group? fanpage) where the seeemingly-reliable stuff about 2009-2010 NSF GRFP was posted? I can't find it in Search for some reason.

[Coffee_Wine]

  On 4/6/2010 at 3:47 AM, Palgrave said:

NSF set up a website to answer questions about the announcement timing. I have checked it and it is as accurate as the speculation above.

that was great :-)

[oilnvinegar]

  On 4/6/2010 at 4:02 AM, sarajune said:

Does anyone have a link to the facebook page(group? fanpage) where the seeemingly-reliable stuff about 2009-2010 NSF GRFP was posted? I can't find it in Search for some reason.

Facebook:

spell it out- no abbreviations

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Washington-DC/National-Science-Foundation-Graduate-Research-Fellowship-Program/71182286186?ref=ts

[julip]

  On 4/6/2010 at 3:40 AM, fifthneville said:

So let's say that the emails were sent/received at ~1:20 AM (Eastern) last year, and the results were posted at ~1:00* AM...does anyone remember if the website went down at 11:00pm or midnight last year?

FYI: THE website notification from last year, taken from the 2009 thread

"FastLane will be unavailable Thursday, April 9 from 11:00PM ET until 1:00AM ET on Friday, April 10 for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience."

[fifthneville]

  On 4/6/2010 at 4:05 AM, julip said:

FYI: THE website notification from last year, taken from the 2009 thread

"FastLane will be unavailable Thursday, April 9 from 11:00PM ET until 1:00AM ET on Friday, April 10 for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience."

Thanks for the info! In that case, I'm going to bed, since I can expect an email around...5AM?

/sigh

[sarajune]

  On 4/6/2010 at 4:05 AM, oilnvinegar said:

Facebook:

spell it out- no abbreviations

http://www.facebook....82286186?ref=ts

thanks!

[BioTurboNick]

  On 4/6/2010 at 4:07 AM, fifthneville said:

Thanks for the info! In that case, I'm going to bed, since I can expect an email around...5AM?

/sigh

I don't know... I'm thinking their strategy will be to take the site down, send out all the e-mails, then bring it back up after e-mails have been sent. That way, everybody will see their official e-mail first.

[julip]

Last year they only shut down Fastlane for 2 hours, which resulted in a number of problems. NSF's whole deal this year has to do with (1) getting emails out before people can just look up the list online and find out about other people before those people can check their emails; and (2) not having everyone inundate Fastlane at the same time to use it as their primary source of notification, resulting in the same problem as in (1)

What if..

The uploading of results to The List takes around 2 hours. We will start to get emails at the end of those 2 hours, with all emails completed by 5am. Last year people received emails between 1am and 4-5am. At 5am, after everyone theoretically has had a chance to view personal results via email, The List will be posted.

.. thoughts?

[edit] SORRY bioturbonick, totally just said what you said already. I seem to be doing this a lot today.

Edited April 6, 2010 by julip