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They have evaluated 7 applications and I was ranked 2nd. Wow! So surprised!

I just checked, in your portfolio, results are online!!! I got funded, it says "retenu pour financement"!!!

Good to know. I'll check at midnight just to see, but otherwise, I'll just go to bed and see tomorrow. I'm so nervous.

Anyone has used Focusmate before? https://www.focusmate.com/support I've just joined, and will tell you if it's been helpful to me. But it sounds like a great tool to fight against procrastination!

Yes! I've seen something similar at my university. I'll explore that option. Thank you!

Do you think results will go out at midnight?

I took part in a face-to-face tarot reading course with a few people today! Perfect for this rainy day. It was fun.

Hello everyone, I was involved in a awareness campaign on a specific social issue in the last year, and I have seen in the last few days that I am being quoted by name in at least two peer-reviewed research articles. I don't have the premium version of ResearchGate and Academia.edu, so I only get some notifications through emails that someone is citing me by name, but one of my friends who was doing research for a undergraduate university assignment noticed while being on ResearchGate that one article talked about us specifically (she was also part of that campaign) and our contribution to that campaign in a way that wasn't very flattering. Mostly, the article is saying that the campaign used us for their own image or something like that (I haven't read the entire article), so even though it isn't criticizing us directly, it still mentions our names as examples to illustrate the author's point. Although I am fine with people criticizing me, especially in a manner that's articulate and non-personal, and that I agree with most of what's I read from the article (because these were considerations and questions I had in mind after having taking part in the campaign) I still wonder: how do you get used to other scholars critizicing your work or your community involvement? Because I just looked at my emails and I got new notifications again, on a extra article. I don't think that article will go widespread because it's on a online research community, but my colleague who was also part of that campaign seemed to be very much affected by that negative article.

Usually it's A- (80%) at least. But community involvement and leadership is also important at the master's and doctoral level.

Exactly. Thank you for understanding. I just wish I could construct something meaningful in a relationship (not with friends, I have plenty of friends) and having struggled my entire life to find that makes me very sad. It is truly what is missing in my life. Being in love with someone that genuinely loves you back seems like a truly transformative experience, and I am very sad that I never got the opportunity to experience that.

yeah true I'm tired of waiting though

Thats totally not true. The fact that I have dropped by initial research project and that I have picked something that's more realistically doable within the next year, is actually out of respect for that community. PS : I have work experience with sexual assault survivors, and I've been an activist for that cause as well. It's not coming out of the blue.

Most of the teams I am working in right now are bilingual. So whenever someone can't read French, they pass it along to someone who can and vice versa with English. Same with translating research papers. But I know you are right, and that I am not alone feeling this way, but I just don't like to idea of being evaluated academically in my second language, I feel like I will be judged more harshly if I do that or that my grades will be lower. I don't mind writing/talking in English in a non-evaluative context.

I got free pizza today. Yum yum

I almost broke down in public today.

Here: http://www.frqsc.gouv.qc.ca/bourses-et-subventions/resultats-des-concours

I slept until 12:00 today. I am heading out tonight for a dinner with a few friends. I am grateful for the amazing friends I have in my life.

@CrazyPugLady you are absolutely right, and yes, I have started working on my application! (I have three applications for scholarships on top of my Ph.D. application so it's better that I start early).

Wow, for real? Yeah, it was June in the past. That's extremely late. Unless they don't change their guidelines at all?

Has anyone here engaged with the media about their research topic? (by engaging, I mean writing an OP-ED piece related to an event that is tied to your research area). Do you have any tips or advice on how to do that? Because I've been very unsuccessful at it.

I am exaclty in your position, I am applying for Fall 2019 and I have contacted a potential advisor to a university that's out of town. So yes.

I can read and understand English perfectly (I did my undergraduate and my master's studies at an English university while writing all of my assignments and exams in French). I could write in English to improve my written English, but I feel like it would add a lot of stress on top of doing a Ph.D (which is already stressful). I feel very insecure about being graded for my writing in English and it'd take me 10 times more time, effort and energy as well to do that. I got extremely frustrated also during my master's courses because whenever I'd do oral presentations, I was never able to convey my thoughts as clearly as I wanted to. That's why I'd like to study elsewhere in Canada but to do it in French if possible.

Anyone else applying this summer?

Hello, I was wondering if you guys knew if it is possible to submit a Social Work Ph.D. thesis in French at UofT for instance (or other Canadian School of Social Work across Canada except for Quebec). In Quebec, students can submit their work in English if they make a request for it first. So I was wondering if there is the equivalent elsewhere in the country. Right now, my plan is to go to UofOttawa but the language barrier thing hinders me from applying to UofT.

That is very fair. Maybe I was overly sensitive. I couldn't wrap my head around how I felt about it. I basically responded that I wanted to study that topic because I had interest in it for a long time and had seen potential to become an ally, but that answer wasn't valid enough to her at the end of the day.