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It's administered through your institution and follows your institutional pay schedule (I am due to receive my last three MA payments this month). At Concordia, I get it with my TA/RA paycheck every two weeks, but if I were to hold it at York, where I'm headed, for example, it would be paid out to me in monthly instalments on the 25th of each month. So you'll have to check with the specifics of how people are paid at your uni. Congratulations to everyone who has received an award! I know the feeling and you should be proud - and to the alternates, don't be discouraged! I'm sure that a lot of people will be rejecting offers as we've seen in this thread and good things will come your way!

One of my closest friends has tattoos over basically his whole body and it's never been an issue.

Awesome, congrats on getting in! I'm looking forward to acclimating to the Toronto lifestyle, as I hear it's got quite a different speed from Montreal. The size of the city is a little intimidating!

Yes, the wait is almost over! Only a few more weeks, we can make it!

I'm going to be applying to the FTLA Award for a year of study in the US. Would be happy to exchange proposals with others.

This is where I'm at, too - I waffle between thinking that I have NO chance whatsoever, but then I remember that I need to put the positive vibes into the air. I'm talented, I have a good research project, SOMEONE has to win these, so why wouldn't it be me? But I've made my decisions as if I don't get SSHRC so that if I do get it, it's basically a bonus for me.

I was surprised by a lot of things. 1. How friendly everybody is. I made a few really solid friends in undergrad (I am currently at the same institution for my MA), but I felt like my Master's would be a lot more competitive. There are definitely echelons within seminar discussions of who is going to talk and add value to a conversation and who won't, but my cohort hasn't had any crazy competition, and we're 17 people so that says a lot. It's probably not like that at every institution, but I think that our department worked hard to foster camaraderie right away - we had a potluck at the former GPD's house and everyone got hella schwasted. It was so fun and it has given us a lot of great material to reminisce upon in the not-so-great weeks. 2. My writing and my capacity for critical thinking improved dramatically. I assumed that I was at the peak of my writing ability post-undergrad (silly third year hubris) but I am actually embarrassed of my first semester papers and wish that I could do them over again because they would be about ten times better now. 3. The closer that you get to the awards person at your SGS, the better your life will become. I've gotten personal e-mails to the tune of "hey you should apply for this" for awards that I didn't even know existed. 4. Outlining your papers makes your writing process much smoother. Shocker, I know, but I used to just jump right in and get to writing. Now, I can't even think about writing a paper without a fully formulated outline - it always looks like it belongs on a fridge next to a two-year old's scribbles by the time that I'm done, but I can't deny the results.

I think we all go through that, in one way or the other. Don't worry, eventually you will find something that sticks!

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-Finishing up my thesis -RAing (hopefully - provided my professors get funding) -Presenting at a conference at Standford -Attending a week-long residency in New York -Moving -Writing abstracts -Writing the GRE* -Starting work on SOPs* *will be applying to schools in the US/UK/France next year, currently in Canada and not wanting to stay.

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Have you considered museum studies/arts admin over art history? What is it that you're looking to gain at the end of your program - more information about the curatorial side/the potential to do more curatorial work while you're in your program? I'm just asking because your endgame isn't teaching in an institution a research-based MA might not necessarily be the best option! Just a thought! But writing a new paper (and getting one of your old profs to look it over for you, I assume) is probably a great start!

I'm Canadian and from Montreal, so I can answer your questions relevant to the Canadian context, but I can't help you as far as the US goes. If your money is partly TA/RA work, then you will be taxed on that portion but straight up scholarship money is tax-exempt in Canada. Like I said, I don't know if you'll be taxed in the US though. Hope that helps!

I'm thesis writing so luckily, I spend most of my time writing and revising rather than thinking about this - but I do check the forum at least once a day to see if anyone has heard from SSHRC or SGS at their school! What about you? How are you holding up?

I would contact your department before contacting financial aid personally... I think you can assume that you were accepted but it doesn't hurt to check with the department.

It looks a bit strange if you don't have at least one from your new institution is what I've been told - MAs here are two years but you apply for your second year MA funding to federal programs and even though professors have only known you for two months, you're expected to get at least one letter. You've been in their seminars for two months at that point and most of the time, they'll have graded you for something already - volunteer to do your reading presentation early or something. Also, I don't think that you should determine your MA degree based on letters. If you're serious about applying to top PhD programs maybe make contact with your potential MA advisor over the summer, let them know of your intentions, and start to cultivate a relationship early.

I widthdrew from two classes in my Master's degree and it had absolutely no impact. People withdraw for all kinds of reasons, as the poster above has said, and unless you have a particularly judgmental department, I don't see it making a huge difference.

I think that it's actually refreshing to read people's little jokes and to see that bit of humanity peeking through. I haven't finished my thesis but I wrote my acknowledgements and there's definitely some humor in there. I've seen people write incredibly poetic, beautiful acknowledgements; I think it shows a lot of thought and effort and as that's probably the only sentimental part of someone's thesis, I find it incredibly charming. Honestly, if your employer slights you based on the fact that you have a personality, you probably don't want to work there anyways, imo.

I'm in the humanities, so the science-related stuff is lost on me but as a general presentation suggestion, I would play up the reasons why you thought that there would be a correlation between these two things. Obviously your idea didn't come from thin air and I assume that your POI didn't think that the idea was completely beyond the scope of reason either or I assume they would have said something. If you have a good basis for talking about how you came to even think that this was a possibility and how that informed and affected your research process, then I think that that will serve as a good base for going into your defence, especially if your research method was solid.

If you're mostly considering it because you want the "experience" of going to that school, you have ways of doing that without doing a whole degree there. For example, doing a semester abroad during your MA/PhDs. Some important questions: 1) Is it the best 'fit' for your research? 2) Are you planning to come back to the US afterwards? 3) Are you willing to take out student loans to pursue your degree there, even for a year - living in England is pretty expensive.

I definitely packed on like 35-40 pounds easy during my MA degree and now that I'm nearing the end, I'm thinking about how to get rid of it. Things that I have found that help: 1) Planning my meals (3 meals and 2 snacks). At the end of the week, I plan what I'm going to make for the next week. Now, I don't always stick to it, but if I've been meaning to make salmon on one day and I make ground pork instead, then I just switch it up, but I try to stick to what I've planned for the week. It also makes groceries easy because I can avoid aisles at the grocery store that I don't need to visit because I'm not aimlessly wandering around! 2) Use my "wasted" time productively. I've started using time that I would just stand around doing nothing (ie: while waiting for water to boil) to do squats or kettle bell exercises. I don't really have time to go to the gym as I work 35 hours a week on top of going to school full time, so I think that this is probably helping me to not get bigger, if nothing else. 3) Eliminating gluten. I've been on a low FODMAPS diet for about a year anyways and I agree that it does make a difference. 4) Get at least eight hours of sleep. I can't function without eight hours anyways and now that I've made it a routine, my body tends to naturally wake me up at the right time instead of letting me sleep for 12 hours sometimes when I was kind of managing my schedule however I felt like it. 5) Lots of water. I use a food journal to track what I'm eating, so it makes it easy for me to track how much water I'm having. You're supposed to have about 2L of water per day, so I use 500ml Mason jars to make it easy for me to keep count of how much I'm having.

I applied directly from undergrad to graduate because this is what I love doing. It sounds cheesy, but learning is a lifelong passion and I didn't see the point in doing a job for a year and then coming back to my graduate studies. For a lot of people, that really works for them, but for me, I knew what I wanted to do and where I eventually want to end up, so why procrastinate?

I was lucky and my university offered me a great package, but I'm going to be in Toronto, so SSHRC will be the difference between living in either a crappy apartment on my own or in an apartment with a roommate *cries* and living somewhere that is halfway decent. I'm hoping that they stick to the end of April deadline but maybe they got held up?

*quietly waves to the MA art history admit at York* I was admitted to the PhD, and I think we take methods together if I'm not mistaken, so hello classmate (if you accept your offer!)