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NEW MSE GRADUATE STUDENT CHECKLIST

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📆 Last updated: August 2024

Welcome to ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV! Below you will find a list of admin tasks you will need to complete to get setup.

General items

1. Find housing
2. Open a Canadian bank account
   
4. Buy a Compass card from a to use public transit
   
5. 🟥 Load your U-Pass on your Compass card
6. 🟥 If you meet the U-Pass exemption eligibility criteria, you may request a U-Pass exemption by the deadline listed at the link.
   

¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Related

1. Activate your computing ID (this will be your ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV email handle, and it is different than your 9-digit ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV student number)
2. Fill out the form to access campus spaces (including your lab)
   
3. Enroll in courses asap (deadline: end of week 2 of term)
   • 🔵 MASc students - enroll in MSE 898 MASc Thesis every term until you graduate
     
   • 🔵 PhD students - enroll in MSE 890 PhD Qualifying Exam every term until you pass your Qualifying Exam, then enroll in MSE 899 PhD Thesis every term until you graduate
     
4. 🟥 Pay your tuition
5. 🔵 Research Assistants only - Have your supervisor fill out the RA form on CourSys to setup your payroll
   
6. 🟥 Get your ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV student ID card from RIS on the Mezzanine level. (you will be asked to provide an acceptable form of ID)
   
7. (This is to confirm you will be working with the same supervisor you were admitted under. Upon admission all students in research programs need to declare their supervisors).
   
8. 🔵 Complete two 700 or 800 level technical courses graded on standard grading basis (A+, B, etc) to be eligible for Graduate Fellowships as soon as possible.