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    MathCat got a reaction from Coyosso in 338: Q170; V168. I just BEAT the GRE!   
    Congrats on the scores, and overall this is probably good advice for people struggling with the GRE. But what you said here bothers me. I think the GRE is generally a pretty good measure of how well prepared you are just by your education and lifestyle, really. Somebody who reads for pleasure and has good critical thinking and numerical reasoning skills should score pretty well (probably not as well as you) without too much prep. Thus, it's not worth the time or money for this person to prep as you did. In that situation some of this time (and money) could be better spent on other aspects of applications - e.g. SOP, writing sample, or researching schools. I don't say this to brag, but rather to illustrate - I prepped for verbal on and off for about a month (learning vocab, as part of daily routine), quant for a few days, and practiced a few essay topics over two days. I paid less than $20 on prep materials - I just bought the official guide for practice problems on Amazon. I scored 170Q, 166V, 5.0 AW. I don't think I needed to spend any more time at this, because as a math major the quant is a breeze, and math hones your critical thinking too, which helps with verbal. People in other majors may need to spend more time on quant, though.
     
    I think in general the GRE is given too much emphasis on webpages like this. It can certainly hurt you if you bomb it, but I'm not convinced it gets you into a top program unless the rest of your application is at that level. In that case, you're probably somebody who can score well enough on the GRE without too much stress, at least on the sections most relevant to your major, which is what the admissions team will care most about, I think. I could be wrong here, and I'm not counting people who get test anxiety. It is worth some time for anyone to learn the tricks of the test, though.\
     
    edit: I also spent a couple of days doing the official practice tests (2 online, 2 in the book). That's definitely time well spent.
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    MathCat reacted to Sigaba in Need help making sense of correspondence   
    Please keep in mind that @fuzzylogician and @TMP (especially IRT history) consistently offer outstanding guidance--the fact that they agree with the professor in your OP is, IMO, sufficient reason to reread the POI's response to you, and to think it through.
    Please remember that sometimes (read: often) there's a big difference between what you want to hear and what you need to hear. The professor in the OP strikes me as someone who cares about you--a person whom she's never met--and is doing her level best to put you in a position to succeed, not just in gaining admissions to UC Davis, but to maximizing your potential as a professional academic historian. 
    While you may get more favorable answers from other POIs, they may not necessarily be better answers.
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    MathCat reacted to fuzzylogician in Need help making sense of correspondence   
    The professor seems pretty clear that you should improve your Arabic before applying to the program. The "I and my colleagues have decided..." suggests this may be a policy now, perhaps a new one, explaining why there are currently students in the program with less Arabic than you. You got a very clear explanation of why this is now the policy, given the current state of the job market. Frankly, I would take this advice seriously because once you start the program, as she says, it'll be hard to get your language to where it needs to be. If that means that by that very decision you're going to make it very hard for yourself to get a job after you graduate, it seems wise to take the extra year or two to beef up your language skills and allow yourself a more successful career down the line. One or two years aren't going to make that much of a difference from the other end of a long successful career, but if not investing them properly can mean not getting started even, well, I think it's clear what you need to do. The only thing she says that you should pay attention to is the question of career goals; if you aren't interested in an academic career in the first place, things might be different. 
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    MathCat got a reaction from rheya19 in Impostor Syndrome   
    Is it weird that my imposter syndrome seems to be coming from people saying positive things about me? The program I'm attending was very flattering in their recruitment of me, and it makes me feel like I must have been oversold, or they must have misunderstood my application package in some way, etc. Even my current professors' encouragement just makes these feelings more intense. It's making me pretty anxious, feeling like I have to live up to this inflated expectation of me.
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    MathCat reacted to rising_star in Love vs Grad School   
    I guess my question is one of how serious you and the SO are. Do you see a real future for the two of you together, one where you can pursue your passions/interests plus be together? How will you feel about having delayed graduate school if you and your SO were to break up 3-6 months from now? Thinking about things in this way might help you have a good perspective on your relationship, which can in turn help with making a decision. Personally, I picked grad school when in a somewhat similar situation and I don't regret it. Why? Because the SO that wasn't that supportive of me moving across the country for grad school was being selfish and wasn't interested in what was best for me long-term, which means things would've ended disastrously at some point.
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    MathCat reacted to TakeruK in Thinking about resigning my assistantship   
    I think you should do some sort of option 2. I don't know the history you have or why it would make you seem inflexible. However, it sounds like whatever the past was (no need to explain here), it has been documented somewhere and you should be able to work with someone else.
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    MathCat reacted to TakeruK in Graduate assistantship assignment/research interests do not align   
    Short answer: You should ask people in your department and find out. The most direct people to ask would be the professors you mentioned of course, but if you want to ask around for some info before approaching them (not necessary but I'd understand how that might make someone more comfortable), then ask the other students in your new program.
    Longer answer:
    In some places and programs, your grad research assistantship is also your dissertation work. But at other places and programs, it's common to work with one professor for your dissertation while also doing assistantship work with another professor for the purposes of funding. I don't know what the norm is in your field, so I am not sure if your situation is unusual or par for the course.
    In addition, it might be possible for you to get an assistantship with your thesis advisor in the future, if more money opens up later. Definitely talk to your desired advisor about this sooner rather than later. I can't speak for everyone, but most people I know prefer having the work they do for their funding and the work they do for their dissertation be the same when possible.
    Try to get the full answer ASAP because it's still early enough for some changes to happen if necessary. That is, would you really be happy if you have to switch your research field for your PhD? Is this still your first choice school if either you cannot work with your first choice lab, or if you have to get funding by doing unrelated work in a second lab? If not, I would consider checking in with other schools that accepted you and see if you can still be admitted for this fall. I would even consider deferring to Fall 2018 start if they are willing to take you but don't have any more funding room this year. I would also not rule out reapplying entirely and making sure you are in the right fit. However, before you take any action, it's important for you to get a realistic and accurate view of what your current department expects from you and what are some actual possibilities for your dissertation. You're about to start a 5-6 year (or more) chapter of your life, so it's okay to ask questions and ensure you're on the right path for you.
    Finally, this last part is too late to be useful to you, @AMB8706 (sorry!), but in case others are reading this, it's really important to confirm the process for research and teaching assistantship appointments prior to accepting an offer. It's not enough to assume that if you say you want to work in X or if you say you want to work with X that there will be a place for you. At many places, being accepted to the department and being accepted to a specific lab/group/professor are independent processes. Many places don't even assign you to a specific group/lab until the end of your first year, if you do rotations etc. prior to having a thesis advisor. At another department in my school, each year, about half of the incoming class wants to work with Prof. X and the majority of them will not be able to do so. Make sure you find out whatever the process is and that you're okay with that process (i.e. if it's a competition, do you have a backup plan in case you don't get to work with the person you wanted to?).
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    MathCat reacted to ExponentialDecay in Can too much and too varied work experience hurt admissions chances?   
    You seem to be doing a lot of things out of a sense of obligation to some shadowy unnamed force. I don't think that working at a place for less than 2 years reflects badly on you (unless it's a pattern, and at a later point in your career), I don't think that having worked at 3 places means you need to get a master's, and I can't even fathom why you'd think that working at 4 places versus 3 will reflect badly on you.
    You should critically analyze the source from which you are getting this bs.
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    MathCat reacted to rising_star in Am I insane to apply??   
    Are you sure about this? Most people start doing research for their dissertation while they're in the classwork phase. In the STEM fields, that includes doing labwork which later becomes part of the dissertation while completing coursework. If you are absolutely sure that you'll be able to count the things you're doing at work toward your dissertation, then it seems much more realistic/doable. 
    (Also, it's worth considering what experiences as a PhD student you will be missing out on if you're a part-time student working far away from everyone else. Will you be missing out on valuable research experience/mentorship because you aren't in a lab on campus? Will you be able to present at conferences? Will you be able to attend department colloquia, get involves in service/leadership in your department or in the grad association, etc.? Will you be able to secure solid recommendations from faculty in the program for future job applications or other opportunities?)
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    MathCat reacted to fuzzylogician in My husband has turned into something horrible   
    Okay, I'll voice the possibly less popular opinion. Your responsibility is to yourself. You don't have to stay with him and you are not responsible for getting him better or for educating him. You need to take care of yourself. If you do decide you want to try and stay, I think it's of utmost importance to get support from others. Can you involve his family? friends? do you have a support system around you to take care of you, if you need it? If he wasn't always like this, something must have triggered this, and maybe you can help him through it. Whatever it is, though, you shouldn't do it alone, and you shouldn't let him take it out on you. This sounds like a situation that requires professional help. I know that posting here was probably already hard enough, so maybe the next step is for you to find counseling on your own, maybe through your school, before you think about talking to him. Figure out your resources and support network, then come up with a plan to confront him. I hope that there is no fear of physical violence, but if there is, let me repeat again: your responsibility is to yourself first. Make sure that you are safe, and take care of yourself, both physically and mentally. If that means you need to leave him, I think that's totally understandable and no one from the outside can judge. And if you choose to stay and try and fix it, again I hope that no one will judge and that you can find the help you need. 
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    MathCat reacted to deadlock123 in My husband has turned into something horrible   
    Hi, I set up this account especially for you. 
    First of all, I am so sorry for the plight that you are in. Please don't leave your husband at this moment; if you do, I'm worried that he will turn into something more radical. However, if you have tried everything to talk sense into him but fail or if he becomes physically aggressive, that's another story. 
    Have you considered taking your husband to a psychologist? Or do you know some of his close friends/relatives who are not racist? Try to get your husband talk to them. 
    Or try to (discreetly) make him read real stories of the Holocaust - to let him understand what Nazism really means. 
    As a last resort, anti-depressants such as Prozac, Celexa, may drastically reduce his aggression/hatred towards "other races" or women. 
    You must stand your ground firmly and must never be swayed by your husband's attitudes/behaviours. If there's anyone who can change him, it's you. I understand how frustrating it is to battle against someone who holds drastically different (and wrong) values, especially if it's someone close to you. But please, please, please, don't give up on them without trying. I guess you don't need my reminder, but never forget that what you are standing for is 100% correct: women = men; white = Asian = black = Hispanics, etc. 
    Kudos. It will get better, and I hope to hear any updates from you later on.
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    MathCat reacted to DiscoTech in My husband has turned into something horrible   
    Good. Because you have offered some comically dangerous advice. 
     
    He only has to get "physically aggressive" once for your advice to turn out poorly for OP.  The guy only threatened to divorce his wife because she won't let him hang a Nazi banner. He sounds really stable and like the kind of fellow who is unlikely to get physically aggressive.
     
    Are you for real? 
     
    Holy mother of God, no! This advice is bad enough when offered to people in non-threatening relationships ....
     
    OP:  fuzzy hit the advice head on. Please take care of your physical and emotional health. If want to try to help your husband, that is great (I think). But please don't believe that it is your responsibility or that you alone can change him. 
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    MathCat reacted to TakeruK in Leaving I-20 in the US   
    It's up to you want you want to do.
    But here's another option: Tell your ISS office right now that you had to leave for an emergency and left your I-20 in the US. They should be able to print a new one, sign it, and courier it to you. This will be faster than your friend doing it because it is fewer steps. Also, the fewer times the I-20 has to change hands, the less likely it will be lost. And by telling ISS this right away, they can help you find other solutions that might be possible too.
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    MathCat reacted to ThousandsHardships in How to Deal Problem Students as a TA   
    The one trick I've learned (mostly through analyzing why I respect some professors despite being subject to their scathing criticism) is to be honest and confident and deal with the behavior like a boss, but to never judge or make assumptions about the student's personality, motivation, or abilities.
    Instructors who get the best results:
    Might tell the student that his/her behavior comes off as [insert negative thing here], but will never say that the student is A or B or that they think the student is A or B. Might say why they took points off and where the problems are in a certain paper or assignment, but will never generalize the performance on that single assignment to make negative assumptions about the student's performance overall or question the student's effort or abilities. Keep personal feelings out of it. Treat each situation as something separate - once a conversation is over, let it be over. Don't let your attitude cloud your other interactions with said student or with other students. If they don't bring up the topic of a past unpleasant interaction with you, you don't bring it up first. You smile and treat it as if nothing happened after the fact. Also, it's okay to clue in the instructor of record if it gets too absurd.
    As a TA, one of the worst interactions I've had with a student involved that student being aggravated by a not-so-great grade on her essay and was trying to get points that I couldn't give her. She yelled at me during office hours, refusing to believe that her answers weren't correct and telling me that she didn't think I understood how much money and effort she put into her education, that I didn't care because I wasn't paying nearly as much as her, and that I wasn't qualified to teach and probably didn't even read the textbook.
    I ignored any attacks on me. I told her first of all that I didn't question her ability or effort - there were specific things we were looking for and she didn't have it; it didn't mean she was a bad student or that I graded on a whim. I also explained the answers to the questions and the reasons her answers didn't express them adequately. I then told her that she was welcome to go to the instructor for a second opinion (which she was going to do anyway). After she left, I followed up with an email recapping what I'd said, BCC'ing the instructor, and I met with the instructor later that day to talk more about the incident. When the student sent in the essay for that second opinion, the instructor and I went through it together, and the fact that the instructor was on my side about the grading helped the student come to terms with her grade, and she ended up apologizing for her attitude.
    Honestly, I have to really thank this student. She gave me a killer answer to a really common and hard-to-answer interview question! 
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    MathCat reacted to fuzzylogician in Leaving Grad School-Problem   
    Thirding the above opinions. Your mental and physical health are the most important. If you have come to realize that your current program is no longer where you want to be, then the decision to leave is the right one to make. It's commendable of you to worry about who will take the position you have been offered and the training you've received, but it's not your problem to solve. You need to take care of yourself, and your department will have to take care of itself. The best you can do is try to leave on the best possible terms: have a conversation with the DGS, your advisor, and anyone else close to you, explaining your situation just as you did here; express your gratitude for the support and education you've received, and let them know you've decided to withdraw at this time because that is the best decision you can make for yourself right now. (Alternatives to consider, depending on your status in the program and your interests, are staying for the MA, and/or taking a leave of absence to take care of your health, if you think that that might help you in the long run, and you may want to come back once you are feeling better. Your post didn't make these sound like options you'd want to take, but it's worth knowing about them so you can make an informed decision.) If this is possible, you could offer to start training someone new now, before you leave, but only if you'll be around anyway and not otherwise. If you need to leave, they will just have to figure it out, and while I'm sure it won't be ideal, they most definitely will. 
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    MathCat reacted to juilletmercredi in Post April 15 PhD FOMO   
    One thing you'll often find is that your emotions often have no relation to the quality of your decision-making
    It is quite normal to be sad to leave a familiar place with people you know and like. By your own admission, you love your current city, you built a community and you like your advisor. Of course you will be sad to leave! You're also going to move to a new place that you've only been to once to work with people you barely know. Of course you will be fearful about the situation!
    That doesn't mean, however, that leaving is a bad decision. After all, at some point you were new to your current city, right? There was a time in your life when you didn't know your current advisor and didn't have a community in your current city. You had to build those things, too. You took a chance. And so you will take this chance build these components anew in your new city.
     
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    MathCat reacted to serenade in TA grading turnaround time   
    Thanks, TakeruK and Fuzzy, for your helpful suggestions! I really appreciate it. As to your questions, Fuzzy, the other TA suggested this during a hallway chat between the 3 of us (2 TAs and prof) and as soon as he did, I said that that wasn't feasible for me. So I think the professor gathered from that that the other TA had not run his plan by me before suggesting it. And thankfully, none of us had given the students any indication of turn around time, so that's one less hassle to worry about. 

    But the good news is, as it turns out: crisis averted! Just got an email about an hour ago from the professor saying the more he thought about it, he decided to go back to his original plan of not giving students back their papers at all unless they wanted us to send it to them over the summer/get it back in the fall. But both your suggestions are really great ones, so maybe this thread will help somebody else in the future who runs into this problem. For the record, I was planning on taking option 6, TakeruK, since I think I had a pretty good case. 

    As for my co-TA, well, he gets a bit anxious to impress our professor. The professor is both of our advisors and my co-TA thinks that doing things like showing his prowess to grade papers in 3 days will earn him some additional favor, I think. Also, he taught high school for several years before starting his PhD so I think he is used to his own way of doing things and sometimes runs on autopilot. He means well and apologized profusely to me after the professor walked away when he realized he put me in a bad position. He's just the kind of person who likes to take any chance to impress our advisor without always thinking things through first. 

    Thanks again, TakeruK and Fuzzy! 
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    MathCat reacted to TakeruK in TA grading turnaround time   
    You should talk to the professor about this issue, as soon as possible. I think you are in the right that because your professor has given one deadline and then effectively moved the deadline to 4 days from today, with very little notice. I am assuming the original deadline would have been sometime after the final exam and the grades due date right? 
    Because this is graduate school and TA work is what you're paid to do, I believe this means mutual respect and responsibility between TAs and the professor. If the professor changes the deadline without adequate notice, the professor will have to decide how to handle the fact that some of the TAs will not have finished grading in time. In addition, I feel like the professor has changed the nature of the assignment. If the students aren't getting their papers back, you're providing summative feedback instead of formative feedback. i.e. I'd just assign a letter grade with a few overall comments. But now that the students are getting papers back prior to the final (presumably so that they can learn from it to improve their studying for the final), you are being asked to provide formative feedback, which is a lot more work, in my opinion.
    That said, whether or not you want to have this fight/battle is up to you. I don't know how long it will take you to grade all of these papers. I think a reasonable conversation with the professor where you don't start a fight but just bring up your concerns about meeting the deadline and see where it goes. Maybe the professor will change their mind about getting the papers back before the final. 
    If they do not change the deadline, I can think of a few things you can do:
    1. Accept this and have a miserable 4 days but get everything done.
    2. Let your professor know that you would appreciate having more time to provide more feedback, but if the deadline is important to the professor, you will reduce the amount of time on each student in order to get the work done in time.
    3. Do the same as #2 but don't tell the professor, just do it.
    4. Tell your professor that you would spend as much time per paper as you would with the old deadline, taking the risk that not everything will be done in time. 
    5. Same as #4 but don't tell the professor, just do it.
    6. Argue more strongly for an extension, using arguments laid out above regarding how you feel about the last minute deadline change and the amount of work.
    None of these choices are really ideal and they come with different costs. Personally, if bringing this up with the professor does not work, I would take option 2 or 3. 
    ------
    Finally, I have to say, what's the deal with your co-TA??? Whenever I TA'ed with someone, I always discussed any "suggestion" I wanted to make (especially if they result in more work) with the other TAs before bringing it up with the professor!!!
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    MathCat got a reaction from TakeruK in Canadian student in USA - paying taxes w/ income from both countries   
    This is my first year filing as a factual resident (long story there, but suffice to say I have to correct my 2015 tax return...), and I'm uncertain on how to answer the question for my province of residence on Dec. 31, 2016. I guess I am a factual resident due to my ties to BC, and that is where my permanent Canadian address (i.e. my parents' house) is. But it is not where *I* lived on Dec. 31. So do I answer British Columbia? I'm using UFile online right now. The options are: say BC, or choose one of 'deemed resident' or 'non-resident', neither of which applies to me, I believe.
    edit: nevermind, I found the answer: I do indeed say BC. Found here: http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tx/nnrsdnts/ndvdls/tmprry-eng.html "For each tax year that you're a factual resident of Canada for tax purposes, use the General Income Tax package for the province or territory where you keep residential ties. Generally, this is the province or territory where you lived before you left Canada."
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    MathCat reacted to TakeruK in Canadian student in USA - paying taxes w/ income from both countries   
    1. I don't report US income on my Canadian taxes. In 2014, I called the CRA and they specifically told me not to report income used to support graduate studies. I don't think the tax law changed though? This is consistent with when I was a grad student in Canada---I was not taxed on income supporting my graduate studies (however, TA and RA work in Canada don't count as supporting studies, but as an employee)
    I guess I don't know what to say here? I'm not a tax expert so I don't think I can overrule the CRA agents, but I am confused why your CRA contact told you a different thing. But if you do the T2209, you should not have to actually pay any additional tax on your Canadian income (my spouse does this because their income is not to support their grad studies).
    2. Oops. I was using "deemed" and "factual" interchangably because both requires you to report all worldwide income as if you were in Canada, but you are right that they are technically different things. After checking the definition, you are right that we are certainly factual residents.
    3. All of my TL11A submitted in the past has been accepted so I don't know what the difference is. Quick question---are you just filling in the TL11A yourself, or are you getting a school official to do it? You need the school official to fill it out (I just submitted mine to my school today actually). Ensure that they filled it out correctly (it's understandable that they are not familiar with Canadian tax forms)---they need to indicate the time you're a full time student and the total amount paid in tuition & fees (it's a blank in the paragraph in the first section so if they missed that, it could cause issues). Otherwise I'm not sure why??
    4. I fill out the 540NR Long form because of the Canadian income from NSERC, as you said. 
    ---
    Extra note: I got a pleasant surprise when doing the 2015 taxes. It was the end of my NSERC award, so I only had half the normal income from them but I picked up a US based fellowship, so my income split was:
    NSERC: $10,500
    US Fellowship: $10,000 (issued a 1042-S)
    From my school: $9,500 (issued a W-2)
    Apparently, according to the tax software, this means I am eligible for the Canada-US tax treaty which applies only when the relevant income is under $10,000. And it seems like fellowships (i.e. 1042-S income) is not counted as relevant under this tax treaty (the software knows about both US income sources!) so I don't have to pay any federal tax on the W-2 portion at all (I still pay California state tax though, and again using the Long Form). So even though the US fellowship doesn't change my overall stipend, the reduction in taxes is like an effective pay boost! (Also, I'm lucky that my W-2 income sources was just under $10,000 because it's not progressive; if you earn $10,001 then you pay full taxes!).
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    MathCat reacted to tonydoesmovie in Do you agree?   
    I'm not a woman, let alone a successful one, but men that are intimidated by successful women are probably not the best candidates to have a relationship with in the first place. Attraction is attraction, it shouldn't be qualified by the subjectivity of success.
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    MathCat got a reaction from namastayingalive in NSERC PGS/CGS - D Waitlist numbers   
    CGS-M process is quite different from the PGS-D/CGS-D process. CGS-M is institution specific - they are the ones who will know how the waitlist is organized.
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    MathCat reacted to Thu.berc in NSERC CGS/PGS-D 2017-2018   
    Woohoo: after a few carefully worded e-mails to NSERC, I got my PGSD2 changed to a PGSD3!!!
    It's unlikely that there's anyone else in the situation that I was in which that allowed this to happen, but hey just in case: IF YOU CHANGE PROGRAMS DURING YOUR PHD, IT RE-STARTS THE CLOCK FOR PGSD3 ELIGIBILITY!!!!
    My example: I went to PhD straight from bachelor's meaning the cutoff for PGSD3 vs PGSD2 was having completed 24 months of the program as of Dec 31, 2016. I started my PhD in Applied Physics in October 2014, which meant that as of Dec 31, 2016, I'd been at my school for 27 months, which made both myself and NSERC believe that I was only eligible for PGSD2. However, after 5 months of being in the Applied Physics PhD program I changed to the Physics PhD program (which at my school is a totally disjoint program from Applied Physics, run by a different administrative division) in March 2015. Two days ago I realized that because of this, I had actually only spent 22 months in the program for which I am requesting funding! Explained this to NSERC and they upgraded my award. The lady that I was in contact with was extremely kind and patient, which is totally the opposite of my experience dealing with NSERC when I had application problems last year.
    TL;DR: If you've changed programs at some point in your PhD and you were given a PGSD2 this year, do the homework and see if you're actually eligible for the extra year!!
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    MathCat reacted to ThousandsHardships in Why do you need a Ph.D. degree?   
    Because I want to be a professor. Because my field keeps me grounded and I can't imagine my life without it. Because doing a PhD in and of itself allows me to do everything that professors get to do (research, teaching, leadership opportunities akin to academic service), and be paid for it. If I only get 4-5 years of that, then so be it. It's still better than never getting to do it at all. And yes, I am admitting that the competition in academia means that I may never get the job I desire. I am also admitting that going into a PhD makes no guarantee that I am going to finish. But why look this far? Life is too short for regrets, and no regret would have compared to the one I'd have if I had let my inhibitions prevent me from applying. Because life away from the university is miserable.
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    MathCat reacted to TakeruK in NSERC CGS/PGS-D 2017-2018   
    Sorry, but to be honest, this reasoning isn't a good one. Firstly, let's take the case of a student at a Canadian school who currently has a PGS-D offer. Why would NSERC set it up so that if the student accepts their PGS-D now, they get taken out of the running for the CGS-D? If NSERC wants to upgrade the student, they would do so regardless of whether they have accepted the PGS-D or not. Secondly, it's not that big of a difference to decline a CGS-D or to just have a PGS-D. Just accept your award  Congratulations!
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