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Like the above posters said, you have to know yourself in order to answer this question. I have friends who regularly date within the same group of people and they all still hang out and are friends. I, however, have always steered clear of that and don't really speak to anyone I dated anymore. Some of my relationships have also ended quite poorly. I would not want to deal with that on a regular basis if I had to see an ex every day.

Ugh the 90s jean shorts is the worst trend going around right now. I don't think anybody looks good in it. They are called mom jeans for a reason.

My advice to you is to get off this forum. Seriously. I am so grateful that I did not know about this place until after I had applied and was already accepted. I had no doubts I would be accepted, but I'm sure this forum would have put serious doubts into my mind

I am IN grad school and have been dealing with mild anxiety/depression. Causes me to procrastinate because I'm so anxious about my work. I contacted my university's counselling services and am talking to someone there. It's helpful, but basically me telling a stranger the same things I tell my dad or boyfriend when I'm stressed out.

I think it's generally easier for girls to look nice and presentable without looking too over dressed. I would probably wear a nice skirt and top. Or dark jeans with a dressier more constructed top/blazer.

Just put a budget together. If you don't have a support system factor in the costs of boarding your pet. And vet bills are difficult to budget for because they can come as a big shock. It's worth it though, in my opinion.

Being an athlete is expensive. My club dues are $300 alone, and if I want to go to an out of town (or country) tournament the costs go up from there. I am very lucky my parents bankroll this for me.

My boyfriend and I certainly don't scrimp in the food department, we spend about $600-700 per month on groceries/eating out between the two of us. Certainly doing a lot more eating out right now in the summer. My boyfriend is an AMAZING cook so he does a lot of cooking and then we have leftovers for lunch (we usually spend our eating out money on dinners, not lunches). I'm a pretty competitive athlete and eat a lot of food for my body size when I'm training. We used to have a Costco membership when we lived in a house, but now that we're in an apartment we don't have room to buy food in such bulk quantities. We try to buy meat only when it's on sale. There's a great farmers market near my rugby games, but unless we have a game we don't go there because it's pretty far away. It is quite cheap though. The farmers markets in town are definitely more expensive.

Certain things in your post ring really true for me. Now my supervisor isn't actively trying to sabotage me, luckily, but I do feel disinterested in my research and don't have the kind of relationship with my supervisor that I think I could have had with someone else. I've actually contacted counselling and psych services at my university and am starting to see a counselor to help deal with my anxiety and feelings of general despair towards my degree. Perhaps you might find this helpful. Like you, I just want to be done and out of here. Fortunately the only person stopping me is myself.

I wrote a letter to my future self when I was 11 which was mailed to me recently (it was supposed to be mailed 10 years afterwards). I thought that when I was 21 I would be married with 2 kids living in New York City with a law degree. Haha My boyfriend's sister is 8 and it was very interesting reading her yearbook. Everybody in her class wants to either be a doctor, teacher, artist or athlete.

I love IKEA too much. My boyfriend and I literally go on dates there when we need stuff and get dinner/lunch in the cafeteria and cheap ice cream.

Some more photos of Turbo

Glad I do my marking on PDFs...

I think I have a more unusual situation with my advisor, we only meet once a month or so. Almost any other communication is done via e-mail. I did a design project in undergrad and one of our supervisors was across the country. We did almost everything via phone or Skype, rarely e-mail.

I liked reading all the responses to this. My perspective is very different, I think, because I really have no personal relationship with my supervisor. I see him very infrequently for very short meetings. I'm only doing a Master's, so I'm here for a short time, but I did decide to do a PhD this forum has certainly opened my eyes to what a student-advisor relationship could be. Although I think I could've had that if I had gone with another prof.

What an awkward situation. I will firstly say I think he is severely underpaying you. I don't know if its comparable for cats, but it's easily $40/day to put my dog in a kennel somewhere. I used to house sit for a friend of mine and watch their dog (who was rather high maintenance), and they would pay me at least $100/week and their house was very conveniently located. I probably would have done it for much less. Given the fact that this is not convenient for you exacerbates the low pay problem. Can you just use your cat as an excuse? Claim it's feral or something and can't be with other cats or left alone all night. I always need a pretty good excuse if I'm going to say no to someone, especially someone like your supervisor.

My supervisor's old student wrote a kickass thesis and got a great TT job all while treating grad school like a 9-5 job. Many of the people in my research group have spouses and children. I'm in engineering, if that makes a difference.

My name is very unique so I am very searchable. When I Google myself I just get pages and pages of sports related stories. Although don't the Google search results vary slightly from person to person? I think they track your recent searches and whatnot and so it could be different. I might be wrong.

I was born and raised in Edmonton and did my undergrad there (albeit in a very different field). If you have any questions, feel free to ask!

With no supervisory/TA dynamics, there is no conflict of interest, and no need to disclose. My university's policy is that they have no business telling you who you can or can not date, but they do require you report a conflict of interest so that it may be dealt with.

Luckily my employed boyfriend covered most of the initial costs, so we actually have pretty nice furniture and stuff. I would say we easily spent at least $5000 on setting up the new place, moving stuff and paying deposits and what not.

OGS is not need-based, so no, there is absolutely no reason I would see that you would lose it. You are still ELIGIBLE for OSAP, you are just not receiving any money. There's a difference there.

When I was applying to grad schools I simply e-mailed a bunch of professors, and most of them got back to me. I happened to be in their city around Christmas time, so met with many of them.

What is worse is the messy bun on top of the head. I mean on the VERY top of the head. Looks ridiculous.

Yes, I am in Canada. And the external awards I refer to are from the national and provincial governments. The way it works here is that all incoming students are typically guaranteed a certain amount of funding, say $20,000. If you receive an external award, such as NSERC, that is $15,000, for example, then technically the university only needs to provide you with $5000 more to match their promised funding. But more often than not, to reward you for getting an external award, they will provide you with $10,000 of internal funding, bringing your total funding $5000 above the minimum. If you have no external awards you will only get $20,000.