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I am seeing someone. Someone I knew for four years. He made a love declaration to me. He had been waiting for me for four years. I said yes. Falling in love during the pandemic was totally unexpected and not within my plans. It's not official yet and I am scared. He's scared too. But according to our closest friends, we're experiencing a beautiful story that has a lot of depth, respect and love. Something very strong and rare. I am going back to my hometown next week to see him again. This time as a potential lover, and not as a friend. And I am scared. Almost as if it was my first date or the first time I see him (although I've known him for four years and have seen him multiple times in the past years). I am both happy and scared.

I am tired. I know it won't change anything to the situation. I know it's hard for everyone. But I need to vent/rant. I live on my own, two hours away from my hometown. I had moved for my first year of university and had always planned to move back to my hometown afterwards. But because of COVID-19, I have not seen my family and friends in person since March. I am quite an independant woman, and it was okay at the beginning (the first two months). But now, I am fed up to be honest. It impacts my motivation re: my comprehensive exam as well. I have low energy and feel like I'm stuck between my four walls. I can't even do the things I enjoy doing on my own (going to music concerts, watch independant movies at the local movie theater, going to music concerts, etc.). I can't study at the local library or café. I'm at home all day long. All my activities entails going to the grocery store, talking walks with music, and watching some webinars. And cleaning up my appartement. That's it. I speak with my friends and family through Zoom, phonecalls, Messenger, texts daily. But it is not the same thing has having a real human being in front of you or to get a hug. Plus, to my surprise, I fell in love with a man that loves me back during the pandemic (we knew each other for multiple years). He made a love declaration to me and I've responded back positively to it. But he's in my hometown. We speak over the phone daily, but we cannot see or touch each other. Falling in love has impacted my level of concentration. It,s a bit better now, but I still feel like my head is up in the clouds. And I am notorious for how focused I am. But I just can't focus. I think travelling is now allowed between Canadian provinces. I am going to take a shot at taking the train next week to go back to my hometown. Because I am going crazy and feel bored.

Hum, have you tried specific forums for EndNote users? https://community.endnote.com/t5/EndNote/ct-p/endnote

Yeah. I chose not to do both. Got enough on my plate already!

I was selected for the fellowship I have applied to. Will do it part-time while being a full-time PhD student.

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Do you think this will be effective until 2021-2022? Because I have a Visiting Research Scholar Opportunity in the States starting in September 2021...

I think it depends how this could be interpreted. It may look like you do not seem to know where you're going, why you're doing the things you're doing on a resume with too many degrees. BUT, if they tend to complement one another and there's some type of link between all these degrees, this can look as an asset. Just my two cents. But at the end of the day, you do what you want depending on what your career goals are

Thank you for asking. I submitted my chapter one day before my deadline last Thursday. Congrats to you too!

Usually public announcements are in the summer ! They will contact you

@jujubea, thanks for checking in. I finished task 3. I've submitted my reading lists to my committee for approval, and have begun reading and annotating two articles and am halfway through one book already. In terms of the book review, I decided to not work on it this week and to postpone it to the end of the month. For the book chapter, I am confident I can finish it for Friday. Congrats to you as well for your progress!

Got another A+ as a final grade for my second course !!!

I think just saying thank you and that you're grateful for this opportunity is fine. And that you're looking forward to working with them. It's more than enough in my opinion. Don't overthink it ? (easier said than done, but truthfully, I think it's fine!)

I'm not moving back to hometown this summer. COVID-19 is pretty intense back home. I'm staying here until everything calms down...

This week's projects are (deadline: May 15th, 2020): - Complete the writing of book chapter for anthology (1500-2000 words) by May 15th, 2020 (in progress) Complete the writing of the chapter in my mothertongue (approx. 2 hours) Translate chapter to English (1 hour) Proofread chapter in Grammarly (30 minutes) Send bio to editor (5 minutes) Approximately : 3.5hours for this task. - Complete the writing of book review for journal by May 30th, 2020 (in progress) Re-read guidelines for submission (10 minutes) Re-skim through the table of contents (10 minutes) Write a first draft of 500 words (two paragraphs per chapter, and cut extra words afterwards) (1 hour) Approximately: 1.5hour for this task - Comprehensive Exam - finalize questions and reading lists by May 30th, 2020 (in progress) Create a calendar for readings (books and articles, try to alternate between books and articles) (1.5 hours) Clean-up my Zotero library (2 hours) Approximately: 3.5 hours for this task

Tired of being single. I cried again. I also stopped praying and meditating these last couple of days, maybe I should get back at it because it helped me to let go of my relationship status for a couple of weeks when I began. I was surprised by the change. But I don't feel the strength to meditate and pray, I just want to cry.

Applications open on May 15. I wonder what's going to be the impact of COVID-19 on this opportunity...

I got an A+ on my final paper for one of the courses I took this Winter. The prof even invited me to share my research experience in a future semester to the next cohort. Really happy, this was one of the papers I was most worried about (worth almost half my grade for this class!)

@jujubea It's no longer an issue, I've successfully passed my master's thesis and am a doctoral student now! But you might be writing your tips for someone else who might be reading this thread!

I got SSHRC and Vanier. So I guess it’s pretty common for Vanier scholars to be offered SSHRC. But for both, it’s two different committees. I did not get a high score for SSHRC which proves that these evaluations don’t always make sense.

Yes. It doesn't make sense to be honest. Last year, I got a Vanier but did not get FRQSC. For the exact same research project. So congrats you everyone who got the award and for those who did not, please please please don't take it personally or as a reflection of your worth and potential in academia.

I use Focusmate and Focus apps, it helps me when I procrastinate!

I am also doing comps this summer and fall. Mine is a "take-home" exam, so it doesn't change much except that my defense in the fall might be on Zoom instead of in-person. I don't know if some students will ask to move it later, I know a lot of folks who are feeling extremely anxious because of COVID-19. Personally, I don't feel the need to ask for an extention, I am quite excited to actually get to do something this summer, because otherwise, it's boring lol

hello, Quick question. I plan to teach a couse after I pass my comprehensive exam, and I am expected to teach a least one course during the course of my doctoral studies. It is common practice in my field. I've came across a few syllabi of tenured professors or tenure-track professors, at different universities, who are teaching on themes related to my research expertise. Since my topic has an angle that is quite new, those courses are taught as a special topics course rather than a mandatory/well-established course in almost all the cases I have came across. My question is: is it common practice to contact those professors by email to inform them that I would like to take some content from their syllabi (assignments, readings, etc.) and that I would cite them in my syllabus as the ones who have designed the original course content. Or do I just create my syllabus and cite them (*Inspired by the work of so-and-so)? What's the politics around that? What about if the professor is teaching at a different university than the one I'd be teaching at? And If I have to contact professors, what do I say to them exactly? Thank you

@Miss Brightside You can list those on your CVs even if they were cancelled. https://apastyle.apa.org/blog/canceled-conferences