snowcapk Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 There are still a few hours! Hope...waning... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cogdiss Posted March 26, 2008 Author Share Posted March 26, 2008 Hope...expired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lambdaman2 Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 yeah.. boo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowcapk Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 Tried calling the GRF Operations Center (spiffy name!) just now. The answering machine message says that applicants will be notified in late March, no mention of early April. Just think...ten minutes from now, maybe we will all know. :roll: EDIT: Thunderbird seems to be misfunctioning...expected the e-mail from NSF by now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bryophyte Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 I haven't received an email today, so maybe Friday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sigh Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 Funny, my email is malfunctioning too. Looking back over previous years on here, it seems like they tend to release the results pretty late in the evening (5-7pm), so there's still hope! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackeywoods Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 What phone number are you folks calling that gets you that message? At least the revision suggests that we'll get our responses either tomorrow or Friday. Although I guess they've left themselves Monday as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowcapk Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 I called this number: 866-NSF-GRFP. After about two minutes of hold music, I got an answering machine that gave me the message. I guess they are screening their calls - wonder why. God damn it, it's 7pm EST. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lambdaman2 Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 The NSF Fellowship 2007 thread had about 80 posts. so we need to get up to that for the results to come out..haha -lambdaman2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bryophyte Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 Maybe NSF posts results according to PST? *wishing even though this doesn't make sense* <--Adding to get to 80 comments Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowcapk Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 Retarded freshmen...started a flame war while I am waiting for an important e-mail... I have to go gnaw some heads off. Page me if the results come out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thunderbelly Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 At least the revision suggests that we'll get our responses either tomorrow or Friday. Although I guess they've left themselves Monday as well. yes... and don't forget about "early April." It's most likely that they just never updated the outgoing voicemail message when they updated the web site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thunderbelly Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 I'm not trying to be a killjoy here, by the way. I just hate the idea of hundreds of the smartest people in the country wasting a week of their lives calling NSF and hitting shift-reload in their web browsers. If only 52 of us do that then we've wasted an entire year of NSF-applicant quality brain power! Look how many reloads this thread has gotten already. I'm sure there's no way they'd update the site to include "or early April" if there were really any chance that the results would be out in March -- bureaucracies just don't work that way. If results come out tomorrow or Friday I will print out my NSF rejection e-mail, film myself eating it, post it to youtube, and link it from here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sigh Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 Secretly, I think you're right, but that's still not enough to keep me from refreshing the NSF GRFP website every five seconds or so. Plus, watching you eat your rejection email would make the rest of us who get rejected feel a little better... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowcapk Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 thunderbelly - laser or inkjet? If it spans two pages, will you be printing double-sided? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thunderbelly Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 thunderbelly - laser or inkjet? If it spans two pages, will you be printing double-sided? in the unlikely event that this becomes necessary? inkjet, single-sided, normal margins, 20lb bond inkjet paper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtlve Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 I'm sure there's no way they'd update the site to include "or early April" if there were really any chance that the results would be out in March -- bureaucracies just don't work that way. Why would they leave the word march, if there was not a chance for March? They would have replaced March with April if that was the case. I am guessing it will be out sometime between March 28-April 4. Lets hope for an earlier date, since there are a lot of us wasting lots of time waiting for results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carka Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 Hi all, Hate to be a bearer of mediocre news, but talked to an actual human(!) at GRFP and they told be early next week. Hope this relieves some of the anxiety/compulsive website checking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cogdiss Posted March 27, 2008 Author Share Posted March 27, 2008 Well, that's good to know, I suppose, although I'm sure more than a few of us won't be able to help repeatedly refreshing until then anyway. How did you get through to someone? I literally never know what NSF is doing during this time--they've got to be sitting on the results, which is pretty maddening. I'm sure it takes a lot of organizational prep to devastate thousands of people, but still. Just frustrating to know that it's all been decided already, and yet we're sitting here in limbo (to put it nicely). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cogdiss Posted March 27, 2008 Author Share Posted March 27, 2008 Also, relatedly, I wonder if anyone from NSF ever reads this forum to enjoy watching us squirm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowcapk Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 Hate to be a bearer of mediocre news, but talked to an actual human(!) at GRFP and they told be early next week. x2. Well thunderbelly, it looks as if I will not be watching you swallow your award notification. But that's okay, because I am now able to picture it in my head quite well, thanks to all of the details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cogdiss Posted March 28, 2008 Author Share Posted March 28, 2008 I called too--I couldn't help it. "Wednesday at the latest...we're just waiting on some final award confirmations." I am going to do my damndest to stop checking between now and then. We'll see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lambdaman2 Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 CMON PEOPLE... WEDNESDAY ISS TOOO LATE!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soc.phd.hopeful Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 I'm wondering - I've heard that NSF doesn't talk to your potential grad program at all. However, it wouldn't make sense for them to give a fellowship to someone that got rejected from that program. Am I correct to assume that if I didn't get accepted to my program I talked about (but did get into an even stronger program - I had discussed the original school due to location for a study), that I can't get the GRFP award? Is the award completely contingent on the specific program? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lambdaman2 Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 no, i dont think it is contingent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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