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I got a TAship, and accepted it without thinking... now I'm trying to figure out how to back out of it. ? I think you can wait until fall/winter courses get announced to fill out your TA profile, that way you can pick the courses that are actually getting offered and read the course descriptions. At least in the History department, courses/descriptions typically went up in early June (though I'm not sure when other departments post that info, nor whether it'll be thrown off by this year's chaos).

Rad! Same boat as @Hawkmoon and I. "One of us! One of us!"

Congrats! What'd you end up with as a specialization?

I really think the property manager is lying to you, to trick you into signing a lease now rather that in September or whenever you were actually hoping to start renting. I asked my partner (a lawyer here in Ottawa) if she'd heard anything like that, and she answered with a loud "hell no." The only thing that the province is suspending is evictions.

Weirdly, nearly everyone I know, with a single exception, who went to NPSIA (either for the MA or the joint JD-MA with UOttawa) is now in private industry or NGOs, while the one person I know who went to Munk works at GAC... granted, that's purely anecdotal. EDIT: I also know two people who went through GSPIA, and they're split 50/50 between gov't and private

At least at Carleton, no deposit required. You don't have to pay anything until at least late August.

Congrats dude! What specialization did you end up in?

The "Research Scholarship" is sort of like an RAship. Kailey Wright explained it to me yesterday: "It is a scholarship associated with work with a faculty for one semester @ 10 hours a week or two @ 5 hours a week. You will be contacted by your assigned faculty member directly to determine how you would like to allocate this. It is different from an RA position because you are not necessarily paid on a fixed hourly rate, it is a lump sum scholarship that is disseminated to you in installments. For example, if you choose to work 10 hours for one semester, you would receive four installments over the semester (Sept., Oct., Nov., Dec.) to the total amount of your scholarship, or eight installments for the full year."

Not the person you asked, but I also got my acceptance letter yesterday. Between TAship, RAship, and entrance scholarships, I'm getting about $19.5k this year. EDIT - like I said yesterday:

Congrats!!! From what I've read of Munk, $5k is about the most they ever give out, so that's a pretty damn high bar you've hit.

Congrats!

Guaranteed your funding will be better at NPSIA

Me too! Just got the email and checked Central. Currently weeping openly on a Gatineau bus ?

@ElleG the minimum for full-time is 1.5 credits. Not sure what the upper bound is, but in undergrad, it was 2.5 (but you could overload to 3 if your grades were high enough). While you're on a co-op term, the most you can take is a single 0.5 credit class.

I suppose, but I think then you'd miss out on the co-op program. Also, the workload might be a bit hefty. EDIT: Missed the question about how many classes per semester. I believe the standard is 3. Obviously they're a little more intensive than undergrad classes, but there's also the issue of TAships and RAships that take up a lot of time and energy in their own right.

You already got the "unofficial" acceptance email though, right?

Woo! Status on Carleton Central just updated to "Review in progress by Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs"

Yeah. Found out about it from Twitter yesterday, and totally spaced on posting it here until right before the event Sorry! It was pretty good. The former head of CSIS Dick Fadden gave a short talk, and I got to chat with a couple NPSIA students.

If anyone’s in Ottawa, Philippe Lagassé (NPSIA prof) and Thomas Juneau and Srdjan Vucetic (GSPIA) are releasing a book tonight at Chateau Laurier and giving out 50 free copies. The book is titled “Canadian Defence Policy in Theory and Practice”

The grad student pub, "Mike's Place" (named in honour of Lester Pearson) is pretty decent... nothing spectacular on tap, but the beer's alright and the food is probably the best on campus (especially the curries).

I was actually thinking of seeing if NPSIA/GSPIA applicants already in Ottawa wanted to meet up for coffee and/or a pint

Nice! I'd been considering applying to LSE (among other places) this year, but dawdled a little too much and only wound up getting my app in at Carleton. Also in a similar boat regarding leaving my job. I'm in government now, but I don't know if I can do another two years of school and work simultaneously.

Weirdly, this is the first time I've really had any issue with Carleton Central since transferring to Carleton a couple years ago... Aside from the from the fact that it looks like it was designed in 1996.

Well, there goes my tidy little narrative! I retract my prior statement.

Yeah, I think we all went through the stages @schneebz laid out up above: preliminary review in progress > recommended for assessment > review in progress by department.