WooHoo! I just got notified that a small grant I submitted has been selected for funding. It's not much but it will let me hire an undergraduate student to help me out with some summer research. What's important is that it marks the first time that I've been a sole PI on a (non-student) award.
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Here's a link for Ed Brayton, who does a fair bit of poker blogging: via Dave Sez, Brian at MGOBlog is playing the the World Series of Poker, and
Something quite unexpected happened to me: I managed to pay off a student loan nearly a year before I go up for tenure! Who'd have thunk it?
Here's the letter they sent me, with a bit of reading between the lines:
Dear Janet,
When I first started attending Rutgers in the fall of 2001, the football coach had to come and practically beg the incoming freshmen to come to a football game.
apropos nothing - what sort of circumstances hypothetically trigger university disciplinary investigations?
Woo-hoo!! Congratulations!
Hooray!! Now THAT is a good way to kick off the weekend!
That's wonderful! Congrats :-)
Congrats!!
*trumpets and huzzahs!*
Congrats!!
Hooray! What good news.
Vivat!
Hearty congratulations! What a great feeling, eh?
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Bravo!
Good job!
congrats! :)
Congratulations!! Good for you!
Great news! Congrats!
Rock on!
Yay! Congratulations.
Adding to the others a big congratulations. Hope you get an excellent student!
Congrats!
Yeah!!!! Congrats!
Good for you!
Hoorah! Congrats!
Yahoo!