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 [...]

Mailing list

Today I’ve been added to the PhD student mailing list at my department. Another important step for me! I’ve debated with myself, and have come to the conclusion that if I was accepted into the PhD program by mistake, they should have discovered it by now. I guess it’s for real.

New colleagues

I sent an e-mail to the other doctoral students at my department, and soon I received two replies, welcoming me. Nice!

Getting organized

At the library I got some information about EndNote which the librarian suggested we use to manage references. It seems like a really good way to make sure that all references are in their right place. But how do you organize your references IRL?? I have a ton of articles, books, copies of books etc [...]

What I didn’t expect

I didn’t expect that I would be getting my own room at the department, so that was a pleasant surprise! It’s amazing how a small thing such as a key can make you feel welcome. And someone had written my name on the door before I came, so that when I walked about looking for [...]

The beginning

Well, this is the beginning of my life as PhD student in linguistics. At the same time I have reached the goal that I had set for myself years ago, before I even started studying at the university. The goal was, obviously, to get into to the PhD program - and here I am!
According to [...]