hapanin

• hapanin 23 Sep 2022 12:47 UTC

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  in reply to: aogara’s comment on: Fund­ing is All You Need: Get­ting into Grad School by Hack­ing the NSF GRFP Fellowship

  My unclear interpretation of the rules was that when you apply for GRFP you must state an “intended school”. It felt disingenuous to state a school I didn’t apply to, ergo you should apply to a school. But I have no reason to believe it is verified in any way shape or form.

• hapanin 24 Sep 2022 21:32 UTC

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  in reply to: Algon’s comment on: Fund­ing is All You Need: Get­ting into Grad School by Hack­ing the NSF GRFP Fellowship

  Does the industry route count? Many people in private labs (Google, OpenAI, etc.) got there the private route without school. That was actually going to be my backup plan. In fact, one of the first authors on GPT-3 is now at Columbia working on her PhD somewhere down the hall. She’s in year 3, so do the math… Now I know the true meaning of imposter syndrome.

• hapanin 25 Sep 2022 22:24 UTC

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  in reply to: Metacelsus’s comment on: Fund­ing is All You Need: Get­ting into Grad School by Hack­ing the NSF GRFP Fellowship

  This is good advice. It is very helpful to 1) have a home school that will let you stick around as a backup and 2) have a sufficiently general research topic and flexibility to apply to make many schools be good fits.