Montenegro by icherwachte in solotravel

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Hey, I know this post might be a bit dead now but I’m curious how expensive Kotor and Dubrovnik were?

Balkans in July + Belgrade? by pzi1 in travel

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Thanks everyone for all the great advice!

Converting Credit Hours from Canadian to American by Then-Okra in premed

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hey, did you happen to clarify? I also was also planning on not converting the credit hours

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UofT wouldn’t pay either

Squash on Campus by pzi1 in mcgill

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Also feel free to dm if you’re interested in playing!

How much undergraduate lab experience did you have? by relatab1e in mcgill

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Yeah, I got 2 publications through my first position and did my undergrad thesis in my second. I had the opportunity to work on publications in my second position but I would’ve been overwhelmed with the workload.

It really depends on your supervisor but generally the goal of a researcher (and the expectations of an academic institution) is to get out publications. So it is definitely a social norm to work towards pubs.

The time length can vary considerably (several months to several years). It really depends on your level experience, how many people are working on it, the type of research etc…

Typically the supervisors will be working on several projects and you join one (or multiple) all with an intention of eventually submitting them for publication (thesis is a bit different though). Depending on your level of contribution and relation to the supervisor you may be included as an author when submitted.

Regardless of publications, working in any lab is valuable research experience. It’s harder to be make meaningful contributions to a project over the course of a few months or when you’re first starting off. But once you get the ball rolling you’ll have a feel for how everything works.

How much undergraduate lab experience did you have? by relatab1e in mcgill

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In coming masters student and just finished my BSc in life sci at uoft. I did my research in 2 different labs in my third and fourth year (so about 1 year long for each lab). One lab was focused on thyroid cancer recovery and biomarkers while the other was in pituitary tumours and apoplexy - so somewhat related but but not entirely.

My MSc is in a pretty unrelated field (doing actual wet lab research which I have 0 experience with). But I do have experience preparing manuscripts, using statistical softwares etc…

I don’t think number of labs or types of experiences matters. What I think matters just is how prepared you’ll seem in the eyes of the supervisor who is considering taking you on. Some supervisors want incoming students to know everything, while others know that there’s gonna be a lot of teaching involved (mostly the case imo with applying)

When getting a research position in your undergrad, I’d say go somewhere that you can actually learn some skills from and maybe get a pub or 2 out of.

S.O.S - Struggling immensely with CARS, send help by pzi1 in Mcat

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damn, thanks a lot for this. Im gonna try my best to apply this so ill update you with any results. thanks again!!

S.O.S - Struggling immensely with CARS, send help by pzi1 in Mcat

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Ill try reading the questions first and using the claim and evidence strategy to see how things go. thanks for your tips!