Navigating NeurIPS Author Notifications: A Community Check-In

With NeurIPS author notifications coming up, I’m realizing that I’m way more stressed than I expected to be.

I know the usual advice: reviews are noisy, one paper doesn’t define your research, there are always other venues, I completely understand all of that. But apparently my brain has decided that none of it matters.

For anyone else waiting for the author notification: how are you holding up?

And for people who have been through this before, does the stress actually get better after a few conference cycles, or do you just become better at pretending you’re not stressed? 😭