GRFP results (April 4nd, 2024)

Many of the people I contacted about the results are those who helped me with the application back in October: professors and grad students who provided feedback, friends who let me vent about the stress, family, and all my letters of recommendation writers. For them I am forever grateful! When I think back to writing my personal statement and research proposal I was sending it to every professor, TA, and peer to give me any feedback possible. Additionally, I've been going to my universities GRFP workshop/informational session for four semesters. Most of the information was repetitive after the first time, but it always helped to be reminded of all the requirements, contacts, and resources. I remember in the first one I went to, the lead had mentioned "if you are writing this semester, you need to have started your outreach efforts two year ago." That day I began looking into more relevant things I could do and places I could volunteer and intern, which led to most of my outreach efforts today. All of this led to my personal statement and research statement.

I am so completely thrilled and honored to be awarded. 

I can't wait to see where it takes me and I'm eagerly anticipating the hard part, grad school.