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The grant process is terrible. I’m a second year professor in the US and wish I had known how terrible this process is years ago. Even though my first federal
by azhenley 7y ago
The grant process is terrible. I’m a second year professor in the US and wish I had known how terrible this process is years ago.
Even though my first federal grant (NSF) was funded, the process was one of the most draining things I have ever done.
I loved the puzzle of breaking down a new, fun idea into its fundamental parts and I enjoy writing. But I do not enjoy the salesmanship, the 7% funding rate, the 8 months I waited to find out my second proposal was rejected, or the laborious amounts of supplemental documents.
- acollins1331 7y agoYou can whine all you want, but the other option is not being in control of your own project and answering to someone else who is paying you. Grant writing sucks, but you control your funds and how it's spent and what it's used for. There's a reason it's hard to get hundreds of thousands of dollars from people, and it's because you can basically spend it how you want. So of course they're going to make sure you know what the hell you're doing.