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No, we are shocked that someone would be so ridiculous as to call this plagiarism. There's no dishonesty here.

Oh for goodness sake. This isn't disgusting, or plagiarism, or anything else. I did this as an employer in the past. You ask people to write their own reviews, LoRs, job descriptions, not because you are lazy, but because you want to see how the person sees their own roles/work/potential. I can guarantee that a professor who asks a student to write this letter doesn't just sign the bottom and send it off, but uses it as a base for what they write.
 
This isn't much different than my professors who asked for my CV and SoP before writing letters for me. They wanted to know how I saw my own skills, and how I wanted to represent myself to the adcom, and tailored their letters to match.

Guess we shouldn't try and be honest in all of our work. 

Can we stop with the histrionics? Writing a letter for an internal grant is a minor piece of clerical work, not a publication.

I never wrote blog posts during my PhD because I figured that if my advisor saw them he'd think that was time I should have spent doing writing that was destined for peer reviewed outlets.

This forum isn't here to help with your homework.

Some crappy journal might, but the good review journals don't publish papers that are just lit reviews; they need to make a novel theoretical contribution or synthesis (e.g., Psych Bulletin, Personality and Social Psychology Review). I'm not capable of this level of thought myself, and I already have my PhD  Some journals are (mostly) invitation only too (e.g., Psych Inquiry, Current Directions in Psych Science). They're darn hard to get into.  I'm speaking for social psychology, anyway, which fits with the topics you mentioned; maybe IO journals are different. 
 
So, realistically I think your chances of getting a review accepted somewhere worthwhile are < 1%. If you want to do it for the learning experience that's up to you, but the publication chances are so slim that, frankly, if you told a POI or professor, "I'm writing this review that I hope will get published," I think you'd come off as dreadfully--but hopefully endearingly--naive.

Some crappy journal might, but the good review journals don't publish papers that are just lit reviews; they need to make a novel theoretical contribution or synthesis (e.g., Psych Bulletin, Personality and Social Psychology Review). I'm not capable of this level of thought myself, and I already have my PhD  Some journals are (mostly) invitation only too (e.g., Psych Inquiry, Current Directions in Psych Science). They're darn hard to get into.  I'm speaking for social psychology, anyway, which fits with the topics you mentioned; maybe IO journals are different. 
 
So, realistically I think your chances of getting a review accepted somewhere worthwhile are < 1%. If you want to do it for the learning experience that's up to you, but the publication chances are so slim that, frankly, if you told a POI or professor, "I'm writing this review that I hope will get published," I think you'd come off as dreadfully--but hopefully endearingly--naive.

you will only be able to find out from them, put on your big boy pants.

Jut an update, department assistant said this is fine and gas happened before. She was so helpful and understanding. Plan is happening!

No need to coin a new term, I think "sub drop" works just fine here. Grad school is definitely a D/s relationship.
 
 
 
OP, take a week off and don't feel guilty about it, then get back to work afterwards. A week of 95% disconnection from work (e.g., save for a few emails) is a lot better than half-slacking for the next two months because you were burnt out.

No need to coin a new term, I think "sub drop" works just fine here. Grad school is definitely a D/s relationship.
 
 
 
OP, take a week off and don't feel guilty about it, then get back to work afterwards. A week of 95% disconnection from work (e.g., save for a few emails) is a lot better than half-slacking for the next two months because you were burnt out.

It gets worse when they do give you rationale. I had a student who said they were on academic probation and if they didn't get a 70% in my class they would have to drop out of school. I just said that I was sorry, but it wouldn't be fair to the other students, many of whom would also have good reasons for wanting an extra 3% on their final grade. (And what I thought but didn't say was, "If this grade was so important you should have studied more.") 
 
At least the story ends well: The following term I saw the student on campus walking to class so either they worked it out or were full of shit. Either way, I stuck to my guns.

I also moved from BC to Ontario!
 
Everything said above is very good advice. In addition:
 
1. Yes, you can use a cheque from any Canadian Bank, usually. I have not seen a listing that ever required cheques specifically from one bank only. 
 
2. There is a 60-day notice to vacate in Ontario. So, if you want to move into a popular building by e.g. Sept 1, it will usually be listed in early July. Depending on what you are looking for and where you are moving to, there will still be openings if you arrive just before Sept 1, but it may be the case that a lot of the good apartments that have a good price will be taken within days of being listed. For example, my wife and I moved to our Kingston, Ontario apartment Aug 1 but we signed the lease on like June 4. Our friends moved from BC and arrived in Sept 1 and the only place they could find with such short notice was about the same niceness as ours but an extra $350 per month in rent!! When we gave our 60 days notice to vacate, our apartment was leased to someone else within a week of us telling our landlord that we were going to move.
 
3. Rent increases are locked to the inflation rate in Ontario. Each year, your rent can go up by a maximum of whatever % that some regulatory body decides. Our first year was 0.9%, the second was like 2.5%. It's nice that there are predictable increases in rent so you can plan for long term expenses. Your landlord may choose not to raise rent, but they will generally raise them by the maximum allowed amount.
 
4. Your landlord is supposed to pay interest on the Last Month's Rent (LMR). What usually happens is that you pay LMR at the start of your lease, and then this means your last month of tenancy is already paid for, even if the rent increases over the time you've lived there. 

I'm from Ontario and I rent.
 
 
Don't pay cash, send them a cheque. If they want cash that's a red flag because they won't give you the keys until the cheque clears anyway. Also, ask them if it's possible for a friend to visit on your behalf to view the unit and take pictures. Even if you don't have anybody who can do this, it might scare off any scammers. Even better would be to ask your new department if there's anybody nice who would do this for you.
 
Ontario's rental laws can be much different than other provinces so you probably want to check out the government site on the rules. For example, Ontario landlords aren't allowed to collect damage deposits but they usually collect first and last month's rent.
 
Another important law specific to Ontario is that you usually sign a one year lease, but after that year is up you're NOT required to sign another lease or move out. Instead, the tenancy defaults to month-to-month and, moreover, even as a month-to-month tenant, the landlord cannot evict you except for specific prescribed reasons (e.g., extensive renovations or they want to personally live in the unit). "I want more money" or "you won't sign another lease" or even "I sold the building to someone else" aren't legal reasons to evict you even as a month-to-month tenant. A common thing is that the landlords ask (but can't require) you to sign for another year in exchange for some consideration (e.g., no rent increase). 

You need to come across like you're serious about IO and didn't just pick it on a whim. How do you actually know that you like IO? (i.e., if you had IO lab experience you could explain using that)  If it looks like you're going into IO without knowing much about it, it appears more likely you that could easily become disinterested (or turn out to be bad at it). That's the impression you need to combat.

It's pickup artist gibberish. "Social value", the way they use it, is a bullshit concept. You're better off ignoring whatever you're reading and switching to something useful (i.e., not misogynistic).

It's pickup artist gibberish. "Social value", the way they use it, is a bullshit concept. You're better off ignoring whatever you're reading and switching to something useful (i.e., not misogynistic).

May_Me_D, you are talking about two separate problems: one, mistreatment from this professor, and two, questionable hiring processes at your institution. However, as a graduate student, you only have one problem, and that is with this one professor. Frankly, we do not have the authority to challenge or rewrite hiring policies. And since you did not serve on the hiring committee, you only have conjecture about why this prof was hired.
 
Still, if your professor is treating you in a way that makes you want to leave the program, that is a big problem that concerns you. I would focus my energy on resolving that issue. If you feel like you can't approach your advisor, the DGS or ombuds person will be good folks to approach. But when you do, just focus on your own problems with the professor. That is all that can be resolved at this point, and that is the most immediate barrier to your success. 

Not to jump to conclusions because I clearly wasn't privy to the experiences you've had with your current advisor, but the one example you give ("such as the fact that I am not suited to go to grad school") is not necessarily the mark of a bad advisor. Some people aren't suited for grad school and it's a good advisor who is honest with his/her advisees about their chances. It's not necessarily a slight either; grad school is a hard slog with bad job prospects at the end of it.
 
All I mean is that it might be worth a bit of introspection or seeking a second opinion where you ask somebody to honestly evaluate your credentials and prospects.
 
Another thing I'm sensing is the search for an advisor who "truly cares" and "truly supports" you. A good advisor is someone with whom you can have a mutually beneficial and productive relationship, not someone who will just support you. There's an element of that, of course, but it's a two-way street.  
 
More so, a pre-graduate-school RA job isn't necessarily one where you should expect your research interests to be supported. Your advisor might be thinking that he/she hired you to help do research. A good boss here will give you a good reference letter, not necessarily encourage whatever (possibly) idiosyncratic research interests you might have.
 
So, suggestion #2 is that it might not hurt to re-evaluate your expectations of what to get from an RA job or from an advisor.

Not to jump to conclusions because I clearly wasn't privy to the experiences you've had with your current advisor, but the one example you give ("such as the fact that I am not suited to go to grad school") is not necessarily the mark of a bad advisor. Some people aren't suited for grad school and it's a good advisor who is honest with his/her advisees about their chances. It's not necessarily a slight either; grad school is a hard slog with bad job prospects at the end of it.
 
All I mean is that it might be worth a bit of introspection or seeking a second opinion where you ask somebody to honestly evaluate your credentials and prospects.
 
Another thing I'm sensing is the search for an advisor who "truly cares" and "truly supports" you. A good advisor is someone with whom you can have a mutually beneficial and productive relationship, not someone who will just support you. There's an element of that, of course, but it's a two-way street.  
 
More so, a pre-graduate-school RA job isn't necessarily one where you should expect your research interests to be supported. Your advisor might be thinking that he/she hired you to help do research. A good boss here will give you a good reference letter, not necessarily encourage whatever (possibly) idiosyncratic research interests you might have.
 
So, suggestion #2 is that it might not hurt to re-evaluate your expectations of what to get from an RA job or from an advisor.

Not to jump to conclusions because I clearly wasn't privy to the experiences you've had with your current advisor, but the one example you give ("such as the fact that I am not suited to go to grad school") is not necessarily the mark of a bad advisor. Some people aren't suited for grad school and it's a good advisor who is honest with his/her advisees about their chances. It's not necessarily a slight either; grad school is a hard slog with bad job prospects at the end of it.
 
All I mean is that it might be worth a bit of introspection or seeking a second opinion where you ask somebody to honestly evaluate your credentials and prospects.
 
Another thing I'm sensing is the search for an advisor who "truly cares" and "truly supports" you. A good advisor is someone with whom you can have a mutually beneficial and productive relationship, not someone who will just support you. There's an element of that, of course, but it's a two-way street.  
 
More so, a pre-graduate-school RA job isn't necessarily one where you should expect your research interests to be supported. Your advisor might be thinking that he/she hired you to help do research. A good boss here will give you a good reference letter, not necessarily encourage whatever (possibly) idiosyncratic research interests you might have.
 
So, suggestion #2 is that it might not hurt to re-evaluate your expectations of what to get from an RA job or from an advisor.

If you want to be a real outcast in social psychology, try being a social conservative or even, to a lesser extent, a fiscal conservative.

If you want to be a real outcast in social psychology, try being a social conservative or even, to a lesser extent, a fiscal conservative.

Agree with the above. "Sorry, in the past I've always paid for posters where I was the first author."
 
 
If money is that tight black and white is like $15.