Adelaide9216 Posted February 1, 2019 Author Share Posted February 1, 2019 53 minutes ago, spin_ice said: I know of two people with the same supervisor who won the Vanier scholarship in the same year. Apparently it can happen! Really reassuring! Thanks !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
immunity Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 The waiting really sucks! 2 more months... Adelaide9216 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adelaide9216 Posted February 7, 2019 Author Share Posted February 7, 2019 3 hours ago, immunity said: The waiting really sucks! 2 more months... I know. It's really hard not to focus on something else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
immunity Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 14 hours ago, Adelaide9216 said: I know. It's really hard not to focus on something else. Totally agree! Especially when I have multiple cooking... Adelaide9216 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adelaide9216 Posted February 13, 2019 Author Share Posted February 13, 2019 Grrrrrrrr, this is so long. immunity 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adelaide9216 Posted February 15, 2019 Author Share Posted February 15, 2019 Wow. So many (complete) strangers trying to discourage me from pursuing a PhD. Total strangers, people I have barely spoke to. (The word got around that I have been accepted in a PhD). It just pushes me to prove them wrong. Nobody in my family, friends, colleagues and supervisors (current and futur) doubt of my abilities (personal and intellectual) to succeed in a doctoral program. And if I do get Vanier, hell yeah I'll tell these people that I got the most prestigious doctoral scholarship in the country. People seem to think that just because I am young, been raised by a single mother, etc, that I can't succeed. F*ck them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBay Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 12 hours ago, Adelaide9216 said: Wow. So many (complete) strangers trying to discourage me from pursuing a PhD. Total strangers, people I have barely spoke to. (The word got around that I have been accepted in a PhD). It just pushes me to prove them wrong. Nobody in my family, friends, colleagues and supervisors (current and futur) doubt of my abilities (personal and intellectual) to succeed in a doctoral program. And if I do get Vanier, hell yeah I'll tell these people that I got the most prestigious doctoral scholarship in the country. People seem to think that just because I am young, been raised by a single mother, etc, that I can't succeed. F*ck them. Follow your heart. If you have gotten this far and even been nominated for Vanier and SSHRC, then you are very likely to succeed. Adelaide9216 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
immunity Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 Anyone else flip-flopping between self-doubt and confidence? TBay and PsychBoy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adelaide9216 Posted February 17, 2019 Author Share Posted February 17, 2019 3 hours ago, immunity said: Anyone else flip-flopping between self-doubt and confidence? Me!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adelaide9216 Posted February 22, 2019 Author Share Posted February 22, 2019 Well, I did not get forwarded for Trudeau. I hope I get Vanier though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBay Posted February 27, 2019 Share Posted February 27, 2019 Did anyone have the status change from In Peer Review to show the date results will be announced? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
immunity Posted February 27, 2019 Share Posted February 27, 2019 5 minutes ago, TBay said: Did anyone have the status change from In Peer Review to show the date results will be announced? Nope, mine still says 'In Peer Review.' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adelaide9216 Posted February 27, 2019 Author Share Posted February 27, 2019 21 minutes ago, immunity said: Nope, mine still says 'In Peer Review.' Same here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adelaide9216 Posted February 27, 2019 Author Share Posted February 27, 2019 If you look for Archived Opportunities, and find the 2018-2019 Vanier competition, it says results will be announced on April 4th. I hope it'll be before that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
immunity Posted February 27, 2019 Share Posted February 27, 2019 45 minutes ago, Adelaide9216 said: If you look for Archived Opportunities, and find the 2018-2019 Vanier competition, it says results will be announced on April 4th. I hope it'll be before that... What sucks is that historically they seem to release results later than the posted anticipated date... Adelaide9216 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adelaide9216 Posted February 27, 2019 Author Share Posted February 27, 2019 1 hour ago, immunity said: What sucks is that historically they seem to release results later than the posted anticipated date... True that’s what happened last year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adelaide9216 Posted March 3, 2019 Author Share Posted March 3, 2019 One month of waiting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
immunity Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 14 hours ago, Adelaide9216 said: One month of waiting Going to be torture! Hard to not neurotically check ResearchNet ? Hoping for the best for everyone! Been trying to compare how my application holds up against previous Vanier winners. I don’t recommend it ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adelaide9216 Posted March 4, 2019 Author Share Posted March 4, 2019 12 minutes ago, immunity said: Going to be torture! Hard to not neurotically check ResearchNet ? Hoping for the best for everyone! Been trying to compare how my application holds up against previous Vanier winners. I don’t recommend it ? Omg, I totally relate. I've been doing both! immunity 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adelaide9216 Posted March 4, 2019 Author Share Posted March 4, 2019 18 minutes ago, immunity said: Going to be torture! Hard to not neurotically check ResearchNet ? Hoping for the best for everyone! Been trying to compare how my application holds up against previous Vanier winners. I don’t recommend it ? @immunity, I am assuming you've applied to CIHR Vanier? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
immunity Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 15 minutes ago, Adelaide9216 said: @immunity, I am assuming you've applied to CIHR Vanier? So glad to know I’m not the only one! And yup, CIHR. Doesn’t seem like CIHR people are very active in this forum. Thanks for starting this thread btw! I’ve also looked back at the previous years’ threads and it looks like this entire thing is one big crapshoot... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adelaide9216 Posted March 4, 2019 Author Share Posted March 4, 2019 3 minutes ago, immunity said: So glad to know I’m not the only one! And yup, CIHR. Doesn’t seem like CIHR people are very active in this forum. Thanks for starting this thread btw! I’ve also looked back at the previous years’ threads and it looks like this entire thing is one big crapshoot... @immunity, yeah, according to applicants from previous years, the thing is pretty subjective I wish I could get Vanier though. I have moments where I feel confident that I'll get it, and other moments where I get insecure. I think the only part where I am not as strong as others is first-authored publications. But I applied as a master's student, so I guess it is expected that at my stage (and in my field), I won't have as many publications. I have heard of people who got Vanier without any publications, so it's a bit reassuring. The waiting is killing me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
immunity Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 7 minutes ago, Adelaide9216 said: @immunity, yeah, according to applicants from previous years, the thing is pretty subjective I wish I could get Vanier though. I have moments where I feel confident that I'll get it, and other moments where I get insecure. I think the only part where I am not as strong as others is first-authored publications. But I applied as a master's student, so I guess it is expected that at my stage (and in my field), I won't have as many publications. I have heard of people who got Vanier without any publications, so it's a bit reassuring. The waiting is killing me. Stay strong! ? just one more month. I hope you can get it too. The funny thing for me is as time passes, I get less and less confident. If I had known my boss wanted me to apply for Vanier, I would’ve prepared much better! Too bad this is my first and last try at this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
immunity Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 10 minutes ago, Adelaide9216 said: @immunity, yeah, according to applicants from previous years, the thing is pretty subjective I wish I could get Vanier though. I have moments where I feel confident that I'll get it, and other moments where I get insecure. I think the only part where I am not as strong as others is first-authored publications. But I applied as a master's student, so I guess it is expected that at my stage (and in my field), I won't have as many publications. I have heard of people who got Vanier without any publications, so it's a bit reassuring. The waiting is killing me. Also, if I remember correctly from an information session by CIHR, every section is scored equally and then the average of the three is taken. Depending on that score, you are placed into three bins: 1-3, 4-6, 7-9 and you’d want to be in the upper middle-top bin to get it. So feasibly if you kill leadership and academic potential, it could make up for academic excellence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adelaide9216 Posted March 4, 2019 Author Share Posted March 4, 2019 1 minute ago, immunity said: Stay strong! ? just one more month. I hope you can get it too. The funny thing for me is as time passes, I get less and less confident. If I had known my boss wanted me to apply for Vanier, I would’ve prepared much better! Too bad this is my first and last try at this... I think my confidence went down because I did not get forwarded for the Trudeau scholarship at my uni. I expected that the process would be harder for Trudeau, but since I was forwarded for Vanier, I thought I would also be forwarded for Trudeau. I will try again for Trudeau next year though. But if I don't get Vanier this time, and I get a smaller scholarship, I won't have any choice than accepting the smaller scholarship in order to live. I am moving out of town to pursue my PhD so I need money. But if I accept FRQSC or SSHRC or OGS this year, that makes me not eliglble for Vanier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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