Not selling my life

When reading about this guy who is selling his life, I feel really happy that I don’t have any urge to do the same! My first term as a doctoral student is almost over, and I’m already looking forward to next term.
Soon I’m going away on vacation. My husband and I are going to two [...]

Now and next term

I’m still working on my first essay, and I’ve got two more to write this summer. I’ve had some other things on my mind as well - I got married three weeks ago! I had a hard time concentrating on my essay the weeks before the wedding, but now I’m almost back on track.
I was [...]

A lot going on

The central part of my life right now seems to be train rides… Since the university where I study is 2,5-3 hours by train from here, and I go there at least twice a week, I spend 10 hours or more per week on the train. The key to successful studying on-board the train is [...]

Feeling stupid

I really really tried to go to the seminar today. I did! But - listen to this - I got lost! The seminar was in another building, about 1km away, and I didn’t find it… I had looked at the map, but when I was on my way I saw some stairs going up to [...]

Two new courses…

…starting tomorrow. “Pragmatics” and “The History of Linguistics”. Unfortunately they overlap tomorrow: pragmatics from 1PM to 4PM and history of linguistics from 2PM to 4PM.
Before that I’m going to a seminar on  “rehabilitating communicative ability in children and adolescents with acquired brain injury”. It’s a presentation of a PhD project by an SLP. It’ll be [...]

Essay topic

On Thursday my first essay synopsis is due. The course is “Phonology and Morphology”, and right now I’m trying to figure out how to connect my research interest (production and perception of pauses) to the course.
One idea is to look at realizations of filled pauses in speech, i.e. allophones of filled pauses. I’m not sure [...]

In MacBook heaven

Today I got my work computer - a MacBook. I’ve only had it for about 8 hours, but I think I’m in love… So this is a great start to my new life as a full time PhD student! I finished my old job on Thursday, and now all I have to worry about is [...]

First lecture!

I attended my first lecture as a PhD student this Thursday! The subject of the course is Phonology and Morphology, and at least the Phonology part feels familiar. You know you are a language nerd when you feel at home when you look at the IPA chart…

Dialogue systems with autism

I went to see my supervisor on Friday, and we talked some about dialogue systems, which he does a lot of research on. He told me this interesting thing: when you sum up the mistakes a dialogue system makes, you end up with a list which more or less describes the communication problems that children [...]

Courses

My first course begins in less than two weeks, and I’m really looking forward to it. I’m taking three courses this semester: Phonology & Morphology, Pragmatics and History of Linguistics.