Grad School - Week 1
Last week I met with my advisor and learned more in depth about the research she and her students are working on. I ended up being invited to a picnic and hike with the various research groups that work together in NLP. It was enjoyable and everyone who went seemed to be friendly and interesting.
Classes started on Monday; I'm taking Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, an intro PhD course, and doing research for independent study. My advisor has been exceedingly helpful, and I find it nice that my professors know who I am already. I suppose that's not hard to do when you're one of the very few women, but I'll actually be working indirectly with one of my professors (received his PhD from Berkeley). I think I'll really enjoy his class and he seems to be intelligent, interesting, and funny. I was a little worried that maybe he'd have a bit of an ego, but so far I haven't noticed one. I'm excited to start working with both my advisor and him (and the NLP research groups in general).
On another note, I may be doing some additional work/research for pay - a surprising amount, I think.
Anyway, I was planning on writing a lot more, but I've been tired lately, so that's all for now.
Classes started on Monday; I'm taking Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, an intro PhD course, and doing research for independent study. My advisor has been exceedingly helpful, and I find it nice that my professors know who I am already. I suppose that's not hard to do when you're one of the very few women, but I'll actually be working indirectly with one of my professors (received his PhD from Berkeley). I think I'll really enjoy his class and he seems to be intelligent, interesting, and funny. I was a little worried that maybe he'd have a bit of an ego, but so far I haven't noticed one. I'm excited to start working with both my advisor and him (and the NLP research groups in general).
On another note, I may be doing some additional work/research for pay - a surprising amount, I think.
Anyway, I was planning on writing a lot more, but I've been tired lately, so that's all for now.