I completed a physical recently and that was why I got lab work. My PCP also got back to me and explicitly said the only red flag was my vitamin D levels.
As for VR, I contacted them earlier today and they said my plan was “basically written,” but they just need to send it to me for approval. One signature away from my plan being completely and totally approved in this case.
ETA: Oh, and in case it hasn’t come up yet, I’m also enrolled in the Federal Workforce Recruitment program and have a Schedule A hiring letter so I can go through a non-competitive process to land a job.
It may be a very good idea to raise your vitamin D level to a safely higher range. Nonetheless, an article such as this, which discusses over-screening, may be interested to read:
That’s a good read. My Vitamin D was below 30 in this case so I was below the minimum range. My levels should hopefully be where they need to be after a couple of days.
Not room and board in this case but I got a tuition waiver + stipend for every academic year. My university where I’m doing my Ph.D though is (get this) the only one in Michigan that doesnt give their graduate assistants health insurance. All years I was funded I was on Michigan Medicaid!
The OP is at a PhD program, and “fully funded” means tuition + stipend or Tuition + a job that can support you. The whole “Dorm + Dining halls” are generally not for graduate students, so room + board really doesn’t work. There are grad student residences, but they are rental units, not dorms.
Yeah, I get that, but ‘room and board’ was so much simpler to write than ‘graduate living residences and/or supported private housing, whether on-campus or off-campus, plus a stipend for living expenses plus a stipend for health care.’
btw: since you want to get pedantic, you’ll note that I never wrote Dorm+Dining halls. And more importantly, Cornell Grad actually uses teh term, “Housing and Dining, (Room and board)” with the latter in parens.
The standard PhD support is tuition + living stipend/ensured salary. The stipend is based on a half time TA or RA position. It is now between $20,000 and $40,000 a year, depending on the university and program.
It is not actually a “stipend”, despite the name, it is a salary, and the students are expected to provide 20 hours a week either as a teaching assistant or as a research assistant. Like every salary, the person receiving the salary decides how to allocate it for rent, health insurance, food, utilities, etc. It is not a scholarship or a grant.
Graduate student unionization is based on that, with the demand being that they get paid a fair wage for their teaching or research assistance.
PS. Research assistantships are generally supported by research grants that a PI receives, while teaching assistantships come from the department’s teaching budget.
Hey everyone. To those who’ve followed this thread and post, I just wanted to give an update that I’ve pursued partial hospitalization and did my first day as of today. I’ll hopefully get to the bottom of what’s caused my cognition issues and made me function so poorly at my current gig at a SLAC.
Update: I thought my symptoms were executive dysfunction first but that’s not the case.
Turns out it was my poor stress management all along that led to my cognitive issues. I’ll be working on management techniques with this program in the coming week.
My depression also went up from moderate to major.
Another update. I was originally going to make a different post about this but figured I probably should post it here. I’m still ruminating, but it was recently treated yesterday in my therapy appointment. I’m going to share the things I got hung up on and then my therapist’s counterpoints. I would like to hear from folks what they think about it.
1.) Misrepresenting my lab experience as 9 months rather than 3 months (with the same things listed). Don’t know if if was intentional or not.
Therapist counterpoint: No way to know whether that change would’ve made a difference.
2.) Former therapist, evaluator for my neurodivergent conditions, and educational consultant writing me a letter of recommendation. She only mentioned that she was an educational consultant and former professor who thought they could speak to my potental, but did not mention my other conditions. Another letter of recommendation came from the PI at the lab where I was a research assistant simply running participants and attending meetings my senior year of high school. My final letter of recommendation came from a graduate school instructor at the time I took his stats class (and got an A in doing so). I felt like I committed fraud since my therapist didn’t mention the full extent of their connection with me.
Therapist counterpoint: My original evaluator/therapist mentioning that did not have any relevance to writing the letter itself so there was no need to mention it.
Major takeaway from all of this: I can’t go back and change anything at all.
Side note: All of my references for my Ph.D program were all from professors in my Master’s program.
Would like to hear thoughts on this as I still question the ethics of what I’ve done.
Therapist told me to value myself because I am one human life.
Whoa that was fast. Same with the (for now) single other upvote your post got.
Definitely still willing to hear from others but just wanted to acknowledge how quick you followed up since it seems like this post gained more traction than I thought.