A doctoral student in Boston spent years writing grant proposals for NSF and NIH R01 funding under their advisor's direction, only to face rejection after rejection. The speaker found the process grueling and ultimately felt the effort was wasted when nothing got funded.
So when I completed my doctorate in Boston, I was very fortunate to work under an advisor who wrote grants like crazy. And he also emphasized the importance of teaching his grad students how to write really strong research grants like those for the National Science Foundation and R01s for the National Institutes of Health. And at first, I absolutely hated it. Writing grants took so much time and energy, and there were just so many components and things to consider when putting together an application. And so once you submit a grant, you're just absolutely exhausted. But you know what the worst part was? All the grants I wrote with my professor just kept getting rejected. And this got me even more frustrated because I felt like the time and energy spent on writing these grants was just completely wasted.
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