marmoor

Congrats, how did you get informed?

Wow you got the letter?

May I ask who exactly did you email, I really want to know my PDF results. BTW I just checked my mail and nothing.

and?

From what I know UQAM is officially closed from the strikes

Well Canada would prefer to hire US school graduates as faculty members cause they know the quality of research there is really good, so move to US work hard for 4 years get a PhD with high quality publications and come back to serve Canada.

Congrats, I would say take your PGS to a big school in US such as MIT or Stanford so you wouldnt be sad about CGS. and really if you have the chance to take your award outside do it there is a BIG difference for your future.

Well they told some other person that PDF letters were mailed yesterday, so I think nobody know whats happening in NSERC . Maybe there is fight between the mailman and NSERC staff and some letters go to the mailman side some to NSERC staff.

One person from Ottawa has received their letter via mail, have you checked your mailbox? R u in Montreal?

I am in CS, one is Intel R&D the other is IBM Dev. I am actually worried about job stability I have never been in industry and heard you might be layed off any minute. I am not even sure if I would have the time to publish in a developing position but at least its something new to me since I lived in school doing research since I remember.

Ok now that I am 100% sure I wont get PDF, what do guys think a bout a research vs development industrial position? I have to decide which one to take by the end of this week and they are both approx the same salary.

How where you informed?

Today

Has anyone in Ottawa or Montreal checked their mail and is a PDF applicant?

Anyone with PDF results?

Where is our reporter and his mailman!!!

Fingers crossed they might have mailed some of the letters today

hehehe so 9% PDFs last years is going to be 2%, cooool its like winning the lottery.

I think the funding was low this year

I have no news, I called last week and they said we get results the same time as applicants, if you do talk to them can you see if they give out PDF results as well?

So did they mean via mail or department?

DO you think the departments are going to get results today?

Well I have asked two employers to postpone the date I can accept their offers to March 31th, I do have a one year postdoc offer but wont go to it if I dont get NSERC and prefer to go to my job offers. The only thing is the employer thinks I am crazy since I have told them I have no idea when I can reply to you anymore!!!

OMG both Monday and Friday are holidays: http://www.statutoryholidays.com/2012.php I am getting so sick of this game, what if god forbid someone has some sort of schedule and needs to know their results on time?!!!!

I had not idea Monday was a holiday in Canada things are not looking good, I wish I could forget about NSERC but its like a virus in my brain.