Applying for Fellowships Sucks
I probably shouldn't whine, but...
For the second year in a row, the UNC grad school deemed my research not worthy enough to merit a write-up/completion fellowship. I honestly don't get it. Granting agencies really like my research and are willing to give me money to do all kinds of chemical analysis on dead people, but the grad school is not a fan of mine, no matter how interdisciplinary I make my research (combining classics, anthro, and geochem is not exactly easy). It would be really lovely to be able to finish this dissertation and, you know, get a job. Not having a completion fellowship means teaching, and that (and even TAing) takes a ridiculous amount of time away from actual reading/writing/research.
So now I get to try to convince either the grad school or my department to pay my tuition for a semester or year, as the PEO award requires that I maintain enrollment - at a cost of $4k for the school year as an in-state resident. If the grad school screws me over again next year and insists I'm still out-of-state, that's $11k for the year. And there goes nearly the entire PEO award. Grrr.
For the second year in a row, the UNC grad school deemed my research not worthy enough to merit a write-up/completion fellowship. I honestly don't get it. Granting agencies really like my research and are willing to give me money to do all kinds of chemical analysis on dead people, but the grad school is not a fan of mine, no matter how interdisciplinary I make my research (combining classics, anthro, and geochem is not exactly easy). It would be really lovely to be able to finish this dissertation and, you know, get a job. Not having a completion fellowship means teaching, and that (and even TAing) takes a ridiculous amount of time away from actual reading/writing/research.
So now I get to try to convince either the grad school or my department to pay my tuition for a semester or year, as the PEO award requires that I maintain enrollment - at a cost of $4k for the school year as an in-state resident. If the grad school screws me over again next year and insists I'm still out-of-state, that's $11k for the year. And there goes nearly the entire PEO award. Grrr.
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