I am completely loving the LSA summer institute! The regular classes are way better than the presession classes, even! And I've been inspired to do lots of work while I'm here, because it's gotten me excited about my work again! Profligate scatterings of exclamation points!

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I thought I was done with classes a while ago (although it turns out I might have been wrong about that -- I might need to take one more at MIT after all due to some confusion about which classes count for what requirements), but here I am at the Linguistics Society of America's summer institute, taking more classes. And it's fun so far! Though ( Read more... )

I'm really excited about this semester so far. Also somewhat terrified by my schedule. I've been getting up early every morning, biking or taking the subway into work, going to classes and meetings and the gym and trying to fit a little bit of work in there somewhere, running errands, coming home late, sometimes cooking dinner (that new ( Read more... )

The new school year has been begun at MIT. I'm co-TAing (along with a friend, which should be fun) a class that teaches undergrads how to design experiments and analyze the results. I think that kind of class is a good idea, and it should be fun to help teach, but it's started out a bit disorganized. It shouldn't be as much work as the first ( Read more... )