there, a draft has been submitted
Sep. 8th, 2016 10:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareinaThere, the grant application that has been taking so much of my time has been submitted. We can re-open it and edit as many times as we like between now and next Wednesday's deadline, but in the worst case, they at least have the current draft. This means I am free to spend tomorrow packing for the weekend's SCA event, and can enjoy the SCA event this weekend. (however, if any of my colleagues sends me comments tomorrow during the day, I will, of course pause from packing to deal with them straight away, but it also won't surprise me if I hear nothing more till Monday)
This has been a fun grant proposal to work on--I have learned a fair bit on how to do them, especially from the comments from Grants Office. I am quite happy with some of the paragraphs I wrote today. But then, it is fairly low stakes for me--if they say yes then there is another post-doc in the department with whom I will work closely, but nothing else changes for me (ok, it gets us one step closer to having the budget for me to go full time, but I don't know that this one alone would be enough for that), and if we don't get it my employment situation doesn't change at all. On the other hand, it would make a huge difference for our potential post doc. But she knows that there is only an 11% success rate, so she isn't holding her breath.
This has been a fun grant proposal to work on--I have learned a fair bit on how to do them, especially from the comments from Grants Office. I am quite happy with some of the paragraphs I wrote today. But then, it is fairly low stakes for me--if they say yes then there is another post-doc in the department with whom I will work closely, but nothing else changes for me (ok, it gets us one step closer to having the budget for me to go full time, but I don't know that this one alone would be enough for that), and if we don't get it my employment situation doesn't change at all. On the other hand, it would make a huge difference for our potential post doc. But she knows that there is only an 11% success rate, so she isn't holding her breath.