It hasn't been a great week for news around here, but I did get a small bit of good news by email yesterday. I have received a $500 travel award for the conference I am going to be presenting a poster at in January. Something like 18.9% of grad student presenters won the award. So that puts me in the top fifth of student research being presented at the number one conference for social and personality psychology, which is nice (just for general self-esteem purposes as well as adding a line to the cv). The money is nice, too.
The decision criteria included three things:
(1) Quality of the research
(2) Perceived interest in the research/topic to the conference-goers
(3) Strength of academic record (esp. previous publications / presentations)
So point 3 definitely is consistent with the idea that the best thing you can do to win a scholarship (or whatever) is to win another scholarship. I think of it as basically a way of labeling yourself to the selection committee as "Pre-approved of by people like you."
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That's awesome!
Congratulations! Money always helps.
Everyone likes a winner! Congrats :)
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