Frustrating...
Jul. 26th, 2011 04:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccastareyesJust got off the phone with my contact at NASA-Ames. He said that he needed confirmation that I could get my PhD by September 30th, as that is the end of the NASA fiscal year. The website didn't say this*, and NASA-Ames Contact/Possible Future Adviser didn't know this, as he generally only does this once every couple of years.
Now, I was planning to finish by late October. Taking off a month three months away** is right at the window where I probably can't actually do it, but I think I can. And since I was prepping the application back in June, I might have been able to budget my time better OR not spend a week working my tail off writing the %*@%$ proposal.
The only positive side is that now I am in NASA's postdoc pool for the next year, so I can either revise what I've done or let it sit. And even if I revise things, it exists, which makes both applying for this job or others a lot easier.
* Well, there's the blanket 'you need a PhD before you come here, but you can apply before you have it in hand'. Years may have been mentioned. But not 'fiscal year starts 1 October. You need it by then'.
** With a personal vacation, and a conference in between, and, incidentally, I should be working on a talk for a mini conference that I'm giving Thursday.
Now, I was planning to finish by late October. Taking off a month three months away** is right at the window where I probably can't actually do it, but I think I can. And since I was prepping the application back in June, I might have been able to budget my time better OR not spend a week working my tail off writing the %*@%$ proposal.
The only positive side is that now I am in NASA's postdoc pool for the next year, so I can either revise what I've done or let it sit. And even if I revise things, it exists, which makes both applying for this job or others a lot easier.
* Well, there's the blanket 'you need a PhD before you come here, but you can apply before you have it in hand'. Years may have been mentioned. But not 'fiscal year starts 1 October. You need it by then'.
** With a personal vacation, and a conference in between, and, incidentally, I should be working on a talk for a mini conference that I'm giving Thursday.
