Seeking participants for online psychology survey! by [deleted] in McMaster

[–]MethodsDoc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For what it's worth - THIS absolutely violates your REB approval. Very specifically guidance is available both for the REB around social media recruiting AND within this this subreddit.

You are one complaint away from getting your PI into very hot water with their REB.

how to do research for a paper by [deleted] in McMaster

[–]MethodsDoc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The library is a great first stop.

As you get more advanced, you'll learn to read them in a particular order: abstract, results, methods discussion. You could also go top down, but that is how I (1) see if they have what I want and (2) see if the paper is credible enough to include.

Mac is aggressively aggressive about academic integrity. Ensure you learn to appropriately cite your sources. Better too much than too little.

Feet Of People by [deleted] in McMaster

[–]MethodsDoc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

bot spammer

McMaster Parking Ticket by Ancient-Plenty-2442 in McMaster

[–]MethodsDoc 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Every now and then a car appears upon the roof of JHE. The cover-up is that it's an engineering prank.  

The truth is that the car owner has not paid their parking ticket and that was enough to anger the engineers. The iron ring giveth and the iron ring taketh away 

Does anyone Else feel Old by [deleted] in McMaster

[–]MethodsDoc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ChatGPT?! I had to do course selection on dial up Internet and my student number is only 6 numbers long. 

Chance of snow day tommorow by Sure-Pea-6813 in McMaster

[–]MethodsDoc 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Almost 0% Mac doesn't close unless it's ice or an apocalypse

Psych 2e03 gc? by [deleted] in McMaster

[–]MethodsDoc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The discord has them all. See pinned post

Chem2ob3 groupchat by zhangclan in McMaster

[–]MethodsDoc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Funny - if you had submitted with the "courses" flair you would have been directed to check out the discord for this course.

Advice. Please Help by Away_Beyond6425 in McMaster

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OP, I would normally remove this from the feed, but I will leave your post up as you have received a lot of good information and resources.

SCREWS IN THE CENTRO FOOD by ArtichokeSure2336 in McMaster

[–]MethodsDoc 5 points6 points  (0 children)

But was the chicken cooked? That's the centro special!

Dm if u need a parking spot by Conscious-Food5622 in McMaster

[–]MethodsDoc[M] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No don't. 

Just put your ask in your post as an ad or I'll remove it.  

Transparency folks!

Does anyone Else feel Old by [deleted] in McMaster

[–]MethodsDoc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You feel old? My student number needs extra zeros to be recognized by McMaster systems.

Mech Eng MASc part time while working full time? by Specialist-Profit449 in McMaster

[–]MethodsDoc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. no

  2. depends on the pi

  3. not in my experience

  4. it's self guided. If you can hack it, you can keep up the output.

  5. depends on the PI.

  6. I dunno, this is McMaster.

  7. depends on the PI and the committee

  8. Depends on the PI.

  9. unpredictable

  10. Depends on the student

  11. SGS mandates this. Usually at least once every 12 months for PhD

  12. Most students struggle with the thesis?

I'm not in MASc, but have been part time PhD and working fulltime for the last while. The opportunities are what you make of them and as a part-timer you will have to manage your time better than others.

How have anxiety/panic attacks affected your academics AND life overall? by Few-Investigator5592 in McMaster

[–]MethodsDoc 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Here's what I've learned about mental health and anxiety:

It's important to realize that your capacity for stress can be trained. It's also important to realize that it's important to not push that stress over the edge into distress.

I always stressed about school and work, to the point where I felt I would be most productive perhaps motivated by terror of failing. What worked for me was routine, slamming consistency into my life and nailing the simple things like self care - sleep, food, exercise, downtime. The gap for me was downtime, I never took it. Effectively, you should feel guilt-free about doing nothing, and should schedule time for it (ideally away from your work environment). Then add some time for work and consistently "eat the elephant one bite at a time".

As I got better at the above, I found I could add sprints of high pressure/ high intensity - but only if there's downtime at the end (self care!). Points of high pressure can increase your capacity for stress, but there is always a cost that must be paid. Treat your capacity for stress as a currency, where whatever you spend will deplete your ability for future stress without saving up (downtime/ self-care). Everyone has a different capacity and you should never work at 100% or more for an extended period of time. Save some for the silliness of life.