You are absolutely right!! I am definitely grateful to have won this award! It means a lot to me. I just want to clarify that I would never have expected a CGS. What I was a bit miffed about was not being able to re-apply in the 2013-2014 round for an upgrade, given that I could be competitive by that point. At my school, if you don't have external funding, your tuition is taken care of by the school. However, if you get NSERC, you have to pay your own tuition. In that respect, being able to apply for a larger award would have been nice as a 1/3 is automatically taken away from my PGS.