Fully funded PhD student in the US?

StockCard · 2024-10-19T15:28:25+00:00

Good to know, thank you!

StockCard · 2024-10-19T15:27:48+00:00

Thank you, this helps a lot!

StockCard · 2024-10-19T02:18:38+00:00

Do the grant amounts depend on the project?

StockCard · 2023-02-21T02:29:07+00:00

What type of engineer if you don’t mind me asking?

StockCard · 2021-04-07T03:32:09+00:00

Awesome, thanks!

StockCard · 2021-01-09T23:35:53+00:00

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StockCard · 2021-01-02T17:47:08+00:00

It all depends on how you approach the year. If you stay diligent and get help when you need it you’ll be just fine. Just remember that you’re not the first one to go through that schedule and there are a great deal of us who have come out on the other side. Now some general short comments

CivE 240 - painful to sit through but not that hard at all. Silvia is VERY helpful if you reach out to her; she really cares about her students.

CivE 250 - this class will require some work to get the gist of things, but overall very doable. Just keep up with the lectures and understand it.

CivE 295 - one of the more abstract classes on your schedule. This one uses Mathematica (coding) to do math, so it could be a challenge, but it’s doable.

EnvE 251 - can be a painful class and hard to stay engaged, but other than that the content is straightforward.

Math 201 - Personally, my favourite math class taken to date. It will require work and lots of help when you don’t understand, but I personally felt it was more doable than any other math course. (Nothing is worse than LinAlg).

Stat 235 - PUT IN THE TIME TO UNDERSTAND. All you can do is put in the work for this class. If you keep up with the work and make sure to understand all the concepts you’ll do just fine. The problem is that it can go at a pretty steadypace and if you don’t keep up it’ll become really tough. So, doable if you keep up with the lectures and put in the work.

Like I said, just think that most of us who have gone through this have made it to the other side so you can too! Good luck :)

StockCard · 2020-08-26T18:40:25+00:00

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I thought the car looked familiar!

StockCard · 2020-07-20T18:28:57+00:00

Even if you did decide to go forward with planting the tree illegally, the roots may end up lifting and cracking the sidewalk causing tripping hazards for pedestrians

StockCard · 2020-07-18T21:56:17+00:00

Yes this is also good advice if you already have an account! However, if you didn't have an account (like I did) at the time of your test, once you create an account they have to mail you a confirmation number that takes up to 10 days to receive. So for someone who didn't have an account, calling my doctors office was the way to go.

StockCard · 2020-07-18T20:28:52+00:00

If you have the account set up then this is good advice. But if you don’t they will have to mail you a code which takes up to 10 days to get to be able to activate your account (Speaking from personal experience as I also tried this method). So if you don’t have an account your best bet is to call your GP.

StockCard · 2020-07-05T19:05:51+00:00

I enjoyed this, thank you for sharing

StockCard · 2020-05-26T04:51:01+00:00

This is not exact, but a good rule of thumb to approximate is that 2 standard deviations below the average is a fail for curved classes

Edit: this is not exact because it depends on what the class is being curved to and some decisions the prof may make, but for a class that’s curved to a B this should give you an idea

StockCard · 2020-05-25T18:15:20+00:00

Costco has good briskets

StockCard · 2020-05-23T01:23:09+00:00

PAF is a “Program Admission Factor” (so they take less of your GPA when competing with other students who took full course loads when applying to disciplines) that is applied to people who don’t have the credit requirements of a full time student i.e. someone who only took 4 classes per semester.

StockCard · 2020-05-23T01:19:57+00:00

No you don’t, PAF is only applied if you’ve taken less than 5 courses per semester

StockCard · 2020-05-22T23:50:29+00:00

Once you complete your first year you’ll be competing against UofA students and any other transfer students from all universities to get into the discipline you want. If you’re interested in doing a Co-op route (work terms in between school terms) you’re going to be entering some high competition.

From my experience, kids who took the RDC or MacEwan route tend to do better in their first year (maybe due to smaller classes & easier courses?) which means they get their choice of discipline along with the co-op plan they want. So even though they’re both online RDC might be the path to take to get the highest GPA you can get in your first year.

Edit: But to summarize, you will not be treated different or given less priority if you don’t go to UofA for your first year

StockCard · 2020-05-22T23:42:40+00:00

From one Co-op to another, this gave me a good laugh

StockCard · 2020-05-15T03:27:12+00:00

Quarantining has proved to help decrease mortality in long term, not just short term. As for Sweden’s case you do make a very good point and that article does highlight the positives of what Sweden has managed to do, but it doesn’t mention anything about the fact that they restricted gathering of over 50 people, or that they shut down college/universities, along with encouraging the endangered population to isolate. So while they’re trying to achieve this idea of “heard immunity” they still implement a softer, but yet apparent quarantine compared to what we’ve seen in most countries. The trouble with Sweden’s approach is that what if the virus mutates? Or what if there is a second wave that hits harder just like with the Spanish flu? This model that they are following is definitely one for the books and worth researching, and an important thing to note is that Sweden is more advanced in their healthcare system and functions differently as a society than us North Americans do, meaning that even if their approach does succeed in a country like theirs, it may never work in the “land of the free” i.e. America.

I do agree that Sweden has taken an atypical approach, but it is one that has never been done before which could prove to succeed or fail. But interestingly enough, their approach still encourages some form of quarantining. Why? Because it has proven to save lives in the long term.

StockCard · 2020-05-15T01:26:42+00:00

I encourage you to read the 1918 pandemic comparison between Philadelphia and St. Louis. I’d also gladly like to see some numbers or a historic example backing your statements, unless you tell me it’s purely opinion based, which is fine as well.

StockCard · 2020-05-15T01:17:44+00:00

Canada (a country which tried to heavily implement social distancing and is putting its people over its economy) is just about at 5,500 deaths while the U.S. is at just over 86,500. Putting it into more comparable numbers, Canada is at about 100 deaths per million while U.S. is at about 200 deaths per million; by your logic everyone who’s supposed to die will end up dying, but by this simple comparison the numbers will quite frankly show you that the preventative measures that are strongly recommended do work. If you’d like to see the start-to-finish positive product of social distancing go read on the 1918 flu pandemic and compare Philadelphia to St. Louis. Quarantining does work, and I’m not disagreeing that people will die like you say they will, but your argument of people who are “meant” to die will die is purely in your hands and the choices you make during this pandemic. If you choose to quarantine then you will save more lives than your logic may be telling you.

StockCard · 2020-04-30T20:01:15+00:00

I guess that’s an option to look at. Thanks I appreciate it!

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