snowcapk Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 Is the award completely contingent on the specific program? Definitely not. I know people who won the NSF but were never accepted (even after receiving the NSF) to the program they named in their proposal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thunderbelly Posted March 29, 2008 Share Posted March 29, 2008 "we're just waiting on some final award confirmations." I can't figure out what that might mean. Final award confirmations? Maybe they do a final pass through everyone's application to check for eligibility or something? With whom might they otherwise need to confirm? I'm glad I won't have to consume any potentially toxic ink-jet output but I must admit that I was really, really hoping to be wrong. My faith in others' ability to make a deadline is low enough though that, to my mind, "Wednesday at the latest" probably means "Thursday if you're lucky but most likely Friday." My BF tells me I'm a sour puss and to get off the computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowcapk Posted March 29, 2008 Share Posted March 29, 2008 With whom might they otherwise need to confirm? My guess is that they need to confirm with all of the previous recipients whether they plan on using NSF funding during the 2008-9 school year. I doubt NSF puts $120,000 away in a vault for each fellow - they probably have to allocate $40,000 per fellow on a year-by-year basis. NSF fellows defer for other fellowships (like the NDSEG), or take time off, or whatever - people think up some creative ways to spend three years' worth of money over a five year period - but NSF needs an exact count of fellows who want $40,000 for the 2008-9 school year, because there is no waitlist. Meanwhile, Retard von Already-awarded-an-NSF-and-ruining-everyone-else's-spring-break-ington is on a Watson Fellowship in Namibia and can't be reached by phone or e-mail, so the GRFP Operations Office has to sit on its hands and wait for his reply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slowestwriter3ver Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 ug. so do i even bother checking my email tomorrow during the day at all? what sucks is i'm supposed to be writing a qualifying paper, but i can't finish a paragraph without: 1) checking my email 2) checking FastLane 3) checking this thread 4) searching technorati/google blogs for "nsf grfp 2008." in that order. i'm pathetic. at least when this is over i might be able to get some writing done. :| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cogdiss Posted March 30, 2008 Author Share Posted March 30, 2008 I hear you. I'm defending my masters this week...unfortunately my prep is consisting mostly of the actions you mention above. Damn you, Retard von Already-awarded-an-NSF-and-ruining-everyone-else's-spring-break-ington! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowcapk Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 Sorry to hear you guys have actual work to do, I feel like an asshole for complaining. Still, it's going to be soooo sad when I realize I've put all this time into preparing my app and checking my e-mail, only to be rejected. I will not even have a youtube video of thunderbelly "eating his/her words," so to speak, to comfort me in those trying times. Maybe I will just lie to all of you :wink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thunderbelly Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 I will not even have a youtube video of thunderbelly "eating his/her words," so to speak, to comfort me in those trying times. I'm tempted to toss Monday into the bargain too, but I so desperately want to know by Monday that I can't bring myself to do it. sorry. At least we can be reasonably confident that this is our last weekend of waiting. Next weekend my excuse for not working will be that I have to go through the grieving process for my rejected NSF bid. :| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtlve Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 Hopefully we all get an email either way tomorrow! If they wait until Tuesday, they could play an April fools joke on use - e.g. accepted/rejected all of us or continue delaying the release. They might actually find such a prank amusing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slowestwriter3ver Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 man, an April 1 announcement would be bad, either way i think. how many times are we gonna have to say, "no, seriously." for better or worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lambdaman2 Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 ANY SECOND NOW.. CMON!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cogdiss Posted March 31, 2008 Author Share Posted March 31, 2008 Ok, no, this is seriously getting ridiculous. Personally I vote that someone else should call and try to get them to say whether or not it will be today. When I called I tried to sound really pathetic (wasn't too hard), and the guy sounded pretty sympathetic. I can officially get nothing done... Put us out of our misery! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
materialgirl Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 Actually, I spoke to someone at operations today and she didn't know when the list is going up, but she said they wanted to send emails by 'later this week'. So...not much information... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thunderbelly Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 on one hand, the tension is killing me and I need to know RIGHT NOW, but on the other hand the TENSION is KILLING ME and I NEED to KNOW RIGHT NOW!!!!!111!!!!!111!!! omg poniez Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slowestwriter3ver Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 i told myself i wan't going to hit "send/receive" for a whole hour. i made it 37 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackeywoods Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 You should switch to "push" as opposed to "pull" email. Or is it the other way around? Blog atcha later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowcapk Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 I just read this. But when I log in to fastlane, I see nothing. Do you think this person is full of it, or did I just not win? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lambdaman2 Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 I think the person is April foolsing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
campingisintense Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 Fellows Task List Accept/Decline Award (March 22, 2008 - August 13, 2008) she is not foolsing... i logged in to find this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowcapk Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 OMG, Congratulations camping! I only hope that they haven't put my letter up yet :roll: EDIT: BTW, what letter does your last name start with? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bryophyte Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 Oh, congrats to all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cogdiss Posted March 31, 2008 Author Share Posted March 31, 2008 No, it's true! I have an award letter. I cannot believe it. I just talked to prof of mine, and she says that more letters may be posted, so do not despair. Why can NSF not just notify everyone like normal people... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slowestwriter3ver Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 wait, have people gotten award emails? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cogdiss Posted March 31, 2008 Author Share Posted March 31, 2008 I haven't gotten an email or anything yet, and I still don't see the list posted. BTW, my last name starts with M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowcapk Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 Haha, thanks cogdiss. My last name starts with a W, so maybe...yeah right though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cherrifaery Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 I don't have anything posted... I guess this is bad news But I can still hope! NSF sucks. Also, I think everyone and their mom is trying to log into fastlane right now, since it took five minutes to load the home page without any images... also, my last name starts with an F. So extra bad news if its alphabetical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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