SadieLou

I feel like somebody needs to give SSHRC a head's up about "under-promise, over-deliver." Like, if they told me I'd know in April, and I found out in March--amazing!
As it is, I'm basically a walking vegetable.

I feel like somebody needs to give SSHRC a head's up about "under-promise, over-deliver." Like, if they told me I'd know in April, and I found out in March--amazing!
As it is, I'm basically a walking vegetable.

I feel like somebody needs to give SSHRC a head's up about "under-promise, over-deliver." Like, if they told me I'd know in April, and I found out in March--amazing!
As it is, I'm basically a walking vegetable.

I feel like somebody needs to give SSHRC a head's up about "under-promise, over-deliver." Like, if they told me I'd know in April, and I found out in March--amazing!
As it is, I'm basically a walking vegetable.

I feel like somebody needs to give SSHRC a head's up about "under-promise, over-deliver." Like, if they told me I'd know in April, and I found out in March--amazing!
As it is, I'm basically a walking vegetable.

Hi, all! Just spent like 15 minutes trying to get into this old account after years. I swore that once I got my SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship I wouldn't ever go through the SSHRC process again. And yet . . . 
Just acknowledging the infinite depths of anxious despair into which we have all been plunged and bemoaning how asymmetrical deadlines get the more we progress. I get it--people are finite and overdrawn (especially these days)--but scrambling to defend this month *and* enduring the Big SSHRC Wait is kinda torture.
Anybody ever get told by the CRA that the SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship is taxable, by the way? I have a friend in my situation who filed it as a non-taxable scholarship, like I did with mine from my Master's and PhD, and was told flat-out that she was wrong and needed to pay tax on it. Even though it was reported on a T4A (I think? living in America these days). I thought things didn't get taxable until the postdoc.

Hi, all! Just spent like 15 minutes trying to get into this old account after years. I swore that once I got my SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship I wouldn't ever go through the SSHRC process again. And yet . . . 
Just acknowledging the infinite depths of anxious despair into which we have all been plunged and bemoaning how asymmetrical deadlines get the more we progress. I get it--people are finite and overdrawn (especially these days)--but scrambling to defend this month *and* enduring the Big SSHRC Wait is kinda torture.
Anybody ever get told by the CRA that the SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship is taxable, by the way? I have a friend in my situation who filed it as a non-taxable scholarship, like I did with mine from my Master's and PhD, and was told flat-out that she was wrong and needed to pay tax on it. Even though it was reported on a T4A (I think? living in America these days). I thought things didn't get taxable until the postdoc.

Hi, all! Just spent like 15 minutes trying to get into this old account after years. I swore that once I got my SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship I wouldn't ever go through the SSHRC process again. And yet . . . 
Just acknowledging the infinite depths of anxious despair into which we have all been plunged and bemoaning how asymmetrical deadlines get the more we progress. I get it--people are finite and overdrawn (especially these days)--but scrambling to defend this month *and* enduring the Big SSHRC Wait is kinda torture.
Anybody ever get told by the CRA that the SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship is taxable, by the way? I have a friend in my situation who filed it as a non-taxable scholarship, like I did with mine from my Master's and PhD, and was told flat-out that she was wrong and needed to pay tax on it. Even though it was reported on a T4A (I think? living in America these days). I thought things didn't get taxable until the postdoc.

Hey all! Finally. Doctoral Fellowship, external applicant (Atlanta), 14.4. *Passes out.*

Thanks! Honestly, it really just felt pretty random. I added a published review and a couple of conferences, and I re-wrote my program of study, but the project and letters were basically the same. I just tried to write very clearly and explain all terminology, making very obvious the sort of practical payout of a very theoretical project (philosophy) and citing things that made it clear that I was familiar with pertinent literature.  Last time I used headings to make it seem more organized, but I took them out. My score was embarrassingly low last time, and the huge jump in score did not feel warranted.

Direct applicant in the U.S. being forwarded! 

It arrived! No SSHRC this year. But I'm working on ramping up my CV for next year.

It arrived! No SSHRC this year. But I'm working on ramping up my CV for next year.

It arrived! No SSHRC this year. But I'm working on ramping up my CV for next year.

All I see are unsuccessful ones.
They're all mine.
They visit me in my dreams at night.
Their text scrambles and turns into maniacally-laughing faces.

News has come to America! Perhaps I will not be waiting forever after all?
Congrats!

Right now, I am trying hard to focus on all of the reasons that it will be okay if I fail in this competition. I'm in Georgia (direct applicant), so it might be a few days before I know the results.
Maybe this will be helpful for other people?
1. There are plenty of chances yet.
2. Every year that you fail is a chance to gain more and more items to put on your CV.
3. Success in this competition is not a measure of your worth.
4. Just being in grad school is akin to winning lots of competitions!
5. The harder you work to prove yourself, the better you become as a scholar.

If anybody else wants to chime in, feel welcome.

Congrats to all who were successful!

Right now, I am trying hard to focus on all of the reasons that it will be okay if I fail in this competition. I'm in Georgia (direct applicant), so it might be a few days before I know the results.
Maybe this will be helpful for other people?
1. There are plenty of chances yet.
2. Every year that you fail is a chance to gain more and more items to put on your CV.
3. Success in this competition is not a measure of your worth.
4. Just being in grad school is akin to winning lots of competitions!
5. The harder you work to prove yourself, the better you become as a scholar.

If anybody else wants to chime in, feel welcome.

Congrats to all who were successful!

Right now, I am trying hard to focus on all of the reasons that it will be okay if I fail in this competition. I'm in Georgia (direct applicant), so it might be a few days before I know the results.
Maybe this will be helpful for other people?
1. There are plenty of chances yet.
2. Every year that you fail is a chance to gain more and more items to put on your CV.
3. Success in this competition is not a measure of your worth.
4. Just being in grad school is akin to winning lots of competitions!
5. The harder you work to prove yourself, the better you become as a scholar.

If anybody else wants to chime in, feel welcome.

Congrats to all who were successful!

Right now, I am trying hard to focus on all of the reasons that it will be okay if I fail in this competition. I'm in Georgia (direct applicant), so it might be a few days before I know the results.
Maybe this will be helpful for other people?
1. There are plenty of chances yet.
2. Every year that you fail is a chance to gain more and more items to put on your CV.
3. Success in this competition is not a measure of your worth.
4. Just being in grad school is akin to winning lots of competitions!
5. The harder you work to prove yourself, the better you become as a scholar.

If anybody else wants to chime in, feel welcome.

Congrats to all who were successful!

Right now, I am trying hard to focus on all of the reasons that it will be okay if I fail in this competition. I'm in Georgia (direct applicant), so it might be a few days before I know the results.
Maybe this will be helpful for other people?
1. There are plenty of chances yet.
2. Every year that you fail is a chance to gain more and more items to put on your CV.
3. Success in this competition is not a measure of your worth.
4. Just being in grad school is akin to winning lots of competitions!
5. The harder you work to prove yourself, the better you become as a scholar.

If anybody else wants to chime in, feel welcome.

Congrats to all who were successful!

Right now, I am trying hard to focus on all of the reasons that it will be okay if I fail in this competition. I'm in Georgia (direct applicant), so it might be a few days before I know the results.
Maybe this will be helpful for other people?
1. There are plenty of chances yet.
2. Every year that you fail is a chance to gain more and more items to put on your CV.
3. Success in this competition is not a measure of your worth.
4. Just being in grad school is akin to winning lots of competitions!
5. The harder you work to prove yourself, the better you become as a scholar.

If anybody else wants to chime in, feel welcome.

Congrats to all who were successful!

Right now, I am trying hard to focus on all of the reasons that it will be okay if I fail in this competition. I'm in Georgia (direct applicant), so it might be a few days before I know the results.
Maybe this will be helpful for other people?
1. There are plenty of chances yet.
2. Every year that you fail is a chance to gain more and more items to put on your CV.
3. Success in this competition is not a measure of your worth.
4. Just being in grad school is akin to winning lots of competitions!
5. The harder you work to prove yourself, the better you become as a scholar.

If anybody else wants to chime in, feel welcome.

Congrats to all who were successful!

Kill me.
Guhhhh.

For anyone else stressing out about it : I read on a wiki about SSHRC postdoctoral fellowships that they usually take the applications off the website 30 days after they were submitted... they probably do the same thing with doctoral applications (and personally I guess it has been at least 30 days since they forwarded my application directly to SSHRC).