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I totally understand the feeling, I was so surprised I got funded last year! It's a good thing to apply even when one's unsure of their chances.

How do you know your ranking? Last year, when I got the offer, I never got to see my ranking.

I've been told that it isn't that hard to get accepted into PhD programs in social work, at least in my Canada. Most social workers practice, rather that do research so I guess that partially explains it. I think it all depends also if your research interests fits with the interests of your potential supervisor and the expertise of the university you're applying to. You do sound like a strong applicant. I think you should apply, you've got nothing to lose.

Congrats everyone!!

I fell asleep last year and woke up at 2am and was able to access the results. But maybe I could have access to them a little earlier than that but I was sleeping (lol)

Lol, I remember the struggle last year.

Hello everyone, I am considering doing a non-empirical (literature based) thesis for my master's of social work since my initial project to collect primary data won't work. Do you have any books/websites/articles/guidelines recommendations for those type of thesis in the social sciences? thanks!

Good luck everyone! It's midnight!!

Yeah true! Now I remember that. Why did they change it?

If you take a nap, it'll make the time go by faster hihi (that's what I did last year!)

Do you have an example of a study/article that's a study design that others could carry out?

I was in the same situation, but was lucky that the school I chose had offered me SSHRC. But I was concerned for those same reasons. It's something that definetly needs to change...

Hello, is it okay to present unfinished work at a international congress? It's not a student organized congress, it's a congress with 600+ participants and stuff. Like some of you know, I have to change a lot of things in my research project and it's going to be clearly not at the stage I wanted it to be by the end of August.

Lemonade came out like 2 years ago, and I'm still not over how awesome that album is! Haha

Yeah, I guess that's the positive side of it. I feel grateful for having been able to do everything I wanted professionally speaking. I feel like if I was in a relationship, a lot of stuff that I wanted to do would've been compromised. However, I still wish I had someone close to support me through this along the way. Isn't a partner supposed to support you when you want to achieve goals/dreams?

wrong thread I think

I think the reason why I find it increasingly difficult to be single is that I lack true intimacy in my life in general. The only person I truly feel close to is a college teacher I had a few years ago, who became a mentor to me after I graduated. We write to each other regularly and he supports me in anything I do. And he's been part of my life for the last four years and he has seen me at my lowest and stayed in my life despite that. I often feel that if I would not be doing conferences or media interviews, if I did not win awards, that no one would care about me. I have friends, but I often wonder 'If I make a mistake, or something terrible happens to me, who's truly going to be supportive? Who's going to truly care?". Those questions create the fact that I don't let anyone get close to me, out of fear of being dissapointed or rejected. I may come across as rude in the sense that when I have people wanting to be my friend, I don't always return the steps they make towards me. But I just feel like I have to be selective in terms of who I can be friends with and who I can trust. I experienced bullying as a child and as a teenager and I just get very anxious when people come towards me to be my 'friends' now that I'm grown up. I feel like I can't truly rely on them and that they come towards me because of those things that I do, not because they actually care about me as a human being. I live with a mental illness and I speak very openly and publicly about what I went through when I was younger, but a lot of people don't understand that I still have bad days. And when I try to tell people that I'm going through a bad day, I rapidly see that they don't want to hear it. I feel extremely lonely and I feel trapped in this image that people have of me. Sometimes, I'd like to say out loud that even if I am in recovery, I sometimes still struggle even if I come across as having everything together. But I'm afraid I would sound like I'm full of myself if I did that.

I just PMd you rising_star, thanks

After having completed the first year, how are you guys doing/feeling/enjoying (or not) your program?

I have zero motivation today.

It's a good idea but I am afraid that even that could be perceived as disrespectful for this population because the study design will not be made in collaboration with any grassroots organizations I'm very afraid to keep the same topic since I am faced with such resistance from the community...I would need to talk about that with my supervisor.

Yeah, I would need to discuss that with my supervisor, because I feel like there is so little information on my specific topic that I have to change topics if I'm not collecting primary data. I'm unsure about what you mean by 'developing a model study design' ?

I am turning 26 this year. thanks for your kind words.

Good luck everyone!

And I have explained to them why I wanted to study this, but they felt like my reasons weren't deep enough. They felt like it was a way for me to 'run away' from studying my own community or something that's closer to myself. I literally don,t know what to respond to that, I feel like I should have the right to study whatever I want...