A Thing For Wor(l)ds

            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