Here on the blog I’ve been chatting away about my current life (premature aging) and my future life (hopefully less so), but let’s get back to talking about language for a moment. I’ve been studying for the GRE, ...Read More

I realized I haven’t given any updates about where I’m heading in two months, but there are several! As I mentioned before, I was accepted to be an English Language Assistant (Auxiliar de Conversación)  through the Spanish Ministry of Education, back in May. About ...Read More

Here’s a little summary of last week’s fantastic trip to New York. Maddy and I went as a three-tiered celebration: for her 22nd birthday, our graduation from UCSB, and to visit our sisters, who both live there. We were sweating profusely in 98% humidity ...Read More

A love of travel comes with the question of where to stay. Ideally, I would have friends all over the world who would open their houses for a few nights, which has happened on some occasions and always proves for the best trips. Or I would ...Read More

This weekend I graduated from UC Santa Barbara, officially becoming a Gaucho Alum. It was a jam-packed weekend full of dinners, graduation parties, pictures, ceremonies, and final nights with friends. Most academic departments on campus held small receptions for their graduates. My housemate Deniz, ...Read More

I just finished my last German final, and now I can begin the swift process of forgetting a year’s worth of material. But even if verb order and plural endings don’t stick with me, a recent linguistics study about German articles made quite the ...Read More

Have I hit rock bottom? I’m officially EXCITED to do research for a paper I’m writing, on the grammar of the subjunctive mood in English. Gulp. I can see it now . . . . I start off as a relatively normal girl, surrounded ...Read More