Jimtastic

Bumping for 2016-2017 Planning on attending MUN, but I don't know anyone there. Any advice on how to find housing, getting settled in St. John's on my own, and meeting other people would be appreciated!

Applied out of undergrad and surprisingly received it at one and "Alternate" at another. I'd rather go to the school I got an "alternate" on, what are the chances of getting off the waitlist?

Sour cream

From what you're describing, it takes effort to find things to do? To be perfectly honest, I expect that anywhere... I guess support is also super important. Haha yup, GLIER. From their descriptions it sounds like a decent enough place, or the department at least.

Haha bit too specific eh? Funny how the students I contacted said Windsor was fine. I guess people who have chosen to go there wouldn't mind the place. Shouldn't have wasted one of my CGS-M spots on them either then...

Hey, thanks for your response! This is definitely an interesting perspective. Funny thing is, when you start listing the issues you have with Windsor, I can't help but think that Queen's (where I'm completing my undergrad right now) sort of fits those categories.... so yeah... maybe it's not as severe as Windsor? If you've been to Kingston/know other people who have, what would a comparison be like? One of the things I wondered was how a very successful professor in Aquatic Ecology came to reside at UWindsor. I just assumed that it was the location which was beneficial for him. Ugh, I guess Windsor is my super back-up in case nothing works but after reading that...

Destiny's child

I would at least send a follow-up email a week or two after, a couple of the profs I contacted had simply forgotten about it because they were busy or traveling. But yeah, do not cold-call them (unless their website specifically asks you to I guess).

Cold cut

Good luck to you too! Hopefully we'll be posting our acceptances in April

Feeling the same way, applying as an undergrad and hearing other grad students talk about how you need a 4.0 and a publication to get it is pretty discouraging though. Plus how late we hear about results (April? Whyyyy??) makes it awkward for grad program applications.

Well, it's submitted now. Nothing left to do but forget about it until April!

I was supposed to get my reimbursement for travel to a conference and they magically wrote me a cheque for $60 less than what I'm owed. They say they're sending the rest now but it's so freaking slow I NEED MONEY SO I CAN BUY RAMEN

Given how much I love complaining about the CCV right now, I can't imagine what it would have been like for you without it haha

Oh boy well I just looked at the NSERC CGS-M allocations per university, interesting stuff. Here if anyone's interested. Anyone have advice on writing/structuring the proposal?

Bump! I'm thinking about going to Windsor for grad school and am really being held back by my negative perceptions of Detroit (and Windsor too by association). Can anyone clarify on how it is to live there as a grad student - in terms of activities, places to go out, the closeness of the community etc? I'm doing my undergrad at Queen's and the student area is phenomenal, everyone is within a 15 minute walk and I love it. I'm guess it wouldn't be the same at Windsor. I love fishing too so if anyone's knowledgeable in that respect that would be pretty cool :)

Weird huh, I heard that previously you applied directly to NSERC and with an award, you could potentially bring it anywhere (making you very appealing for PIs to take on). I guess that's not the case when now it's being judged by committees at individual universities. Apparently it will be more competitive as well at universities with a smaller share of the NSERC funding pie since they're allocated based on that?

That's the feeling I got, thank you! I talked to my undergrad supervisor and he mentioned that the fact that I can send it to 5 different schools is new this year. I'm guessing that they mainly focus on your ability to write a research proposal as opposed to the science behind it?

I posted this in another thread but I figure I might as well try here too. I'm an undergrad who is thinking about applying for CGS-M funding and I'm a bit confused by how it's structured. Given that I've only really begun to contact profs and am in discussion with a few, how the heck does the research proposal work? If I'm not sure yet of where I want to go to grad school (and the field will vary a bit), how can I used one proposed project to apply to five different graduate programs? Until now I was under the assumption that you should first identify a professor you want to work with then craft an application based on their proposed research projects. If someone could shed some light on this it would be greatly appreciated!

Sorry to piggyback on this thread, but I'm an undergrad who is thinking about applying for CGS-M funding and I'm a bit confused by how it's structured (and you all seem to know what's going on). Given that I've only really begun to contact profs and am in discussion with a few, how the heck does the research proposal work? If I'm not sure yet of where I want to go to grad school (and the field will vary a bit), how can I used one proposed project to apply to five different graduate programs? Until now I was under the assumption that you should first identify a professor you want to work with then craft an application based on their proposed research projects. If someone could shed some light on this it would be greatly appreciated!

I'm thinking about working in the Aquaculture industry and I was wondering if anyone has done a research based Master's in Aquaculture then gone and worked in industry? A lot of the programs I'm seeing are 1 year diplomas which makes sense for technician level jobs. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!