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| 09:51am 29/07/2009 |
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I wonder how many people read this anymore? (Besides Jackie. I know that she does.) ;)
But, I had my first paid guest speaker gig at Boston University yesterday, and besides meeting someone who knows a girl I went to Flagler with, small Deaf world, I got paid TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS. I almost had a heart attack. It was an hour and a half lecture. How insane is that? If that is typical reimbursement, then I am going to quit school and just go give lectures.
Anyway, it was exciting.. :) Yay! |
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| 12:49pm 10/03/2009 |
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I have been accepted to present at my first ever conference.
Commence celebration! |
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| 09:03pm 10/12/2008 |
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One of my professors is visiting from an organization in France called the OECD. I went to meet with him about my final paper (the neuroscience of sign language, basically.. what parts of the brain light up when processing sign v. processing speech).
He got very excited, and told me that he saw a lot of potential for this paper.
And asked if he could use it in the spring at a meeting of the whole of his organization, to convince them that they should do research in this area.
And, if they think this is a good idea, would I be interested in heading up this research?
They would fly me out to Paris once in the summer for a few weeks, then every once in a while to check in and let them know what I am up to.
How cool is that? |
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| 03:18pm 24/10/2008 |
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Dear Jessica Scott,
As your studies get under way, I am delighted to congratulate you on having been named a recipient of the Roy E. Larsen Fellowship.
Roy E. Larsen Awards
Larsen Awards are given to first-year doctoral students who exhibit superior achievement and outstanding research potential. They are awarded in memory of Roy E. Larsen, who was a national leader in the Campaign for Better Schools and a generous donor and friend of HGSE.
Yay! |
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| 07:11pm 04/10/2008 |
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One of my former students died today.. |
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| 12:19pm 14/09/2008 |
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www.gse.harvard.edu
I am on the school website at my doctoral orientation. I'm famous! And wearing blue. |
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| 10:59am 01/09/2008 |
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One of my old (and very frightening) professors asked me the other day if I would possibly be interested in being a part of a panel discussion at the upcoming Massachusetts Reading Conference to discuss literacy education and students with hearing loss.
Between that and my face on the BU website as a research fellow, I'm feeling very much like a doctoral student. And also, I think I will be terrified to be on that panel. :) |
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| 05:37pm 25/08/2008 |
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Although almost everything else has been a pit of suckitude lately, I just found out I am getting my university stipend check on Friday, instead of September 22 like I originally had thought. Hooray for being able to buy food and tickets for the T. |
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| 04:22pm 11/08/2008 |
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http://ling.bu.edu/people
I am, evidently, a research fellow at a university that I don't even attend. I find this to be fun. |
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| 06:54pm 05/08/2008 |
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In case anyone was wondering, everything with me is horrifyingly bad.
So... that's all. |
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| 12:27pm 20/04/2008 |
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1. We officially have an apartment, and it even has a spare bedroom - moving in June 1st
2. Chris officially has a plane ticket to come and live here
3. I had a professor use my paper on the course website as a model for what a paper should look like
4. I have only 3 days left of interning
5. I passed the Massachusetts certification exam to be licensed as a reading specialist
6. Columbia offered me a crap financial aid package, so Harvard is clearly the way to go
7. Classes finished in 3 weeks! |
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| 09:44pm 13/03/2008 |
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it is possible that i have never been this tired before ever. |
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| 09:59pm 11/03/2008 |
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So, here we are.
I just got an e-mail from the Columbia financial aid office (Columbia is supposed to make its admissions decision by this Friday) explaining to me that as an applicant, I may be eligible for the blabety blah fellowship.
Ok. So, I don't know what to make of this.
I sent in my information to Columbia's financial aid office months ago when I applied to their program, and they didn't contact me until now, 3 days before I am meant to get the admission's decision. But nowhere in this letter did it say I was admitted.
Do I assume that they wait for months after you send in the financial aid information to send this letter because they only send it to admitted students? Or assume that, because it said I am an "applicant" that my status there is still uncomfirmed.
And, if I got in -- Boston or New York? Language and Literacy with no more internships (hooray!) vs. deaf ed (yay!) with an internship (boooo!!!). |
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| 08:42pm 11/03/2008 |
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sucked.
blah. |
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| Tragedy strikes... |
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| 07:19pm 23/02/2008 |
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mood:  sore
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I am typing this in a very one handed and slow manner, the reason for which I cannot possibly keep to myself. This week seems an incredible blends of highs and lows. Still mostly highs, but my fucking finger hurts.
So, I was with my friend Cate at the Garage - kind of like a mini-mall... a sad little food court, two or three stores upstairs. We had left the Jeanne Chall Reading Lab, where I do my work study and where most people in our program spend most of their time. So, Cate had wanted lunch, coffee for me, and getting coffee for our friend Wendy as well. So, downstairs in the Garage is this little burrito place, where Cate was getting her lunch. It was kind of busy, so I waited around the corner, with my hand on what I thought was the outside of the door jamb, by the bathroom.
So, the unfortunate truth was that my hand was actually in that space that appears in doors which are ajar; a space that promptly disappears when someone closes the door. Which is, unfortunately, what happened. On my ring finger. The door ALL THE WAY CLOSED. I mean, it latched and everything. For at least 2 - 3 seconds. During which time I am screaming bloody murder and pounding against the door. So, the girl opens the door and is faced with what I'm sure what a terrible quandary - whether or not to actually go to the bathroom, which had obviously been her intention. I have no idea what her decision was. Cate came around the corner, panicked, asked this little Hispanic guy who worked there for ice. He smiled and nodded, and clearly did not understand a word that was being said. So, we started to walk up the stairs, at which point I informed Cate that I thought I was going to faint.
Which I did.
Now, the entire "tuft" (doctor's term) of my finger is full of blood, to the point that is leaking out my pores. It is fucking gross. And turning scary colors. To say nothing of the nail.
Does it make me sound completely pathetic to say that was the most pain I remember ever experiencing? I think the passing out at least supports that argument. It HURT. Oh my god.
So, now we have two posts in one week, something I have not done in some time, I believe. And I had better get a jillion comments on it, because typing it up was not only type consuming, but occasionally painful. :( |
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| 07:54pm 21/02/2008 |
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Sometimes I feel like a brat.
But I just thought I would inform everyone that I just received a call from one of my professors, who wanted to inform me of my acceptance into the Harvard Ed School's doctoral program.
I am possibly in shock.
So, there. Free reign to not work for the next five years. |
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| by the way.. |
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| 08:35pm 14/02/2008 |
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I keep meaning to mention this, because I think it totally kicks ass, but my graduation speaker =...
JK Rowling!
Yay! |
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| Ahh, Samantha... |
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| 09:24pm 13/02/2008 |
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That was just what I needed dear. How long ago does 5 years feel to everyone else??
"..She and I are going to run away together to a land of sand and palm trees and gummi bears, where Todd Lidh's considerably more attractive, but equally as amusing younger brother will entertain us with stories of cornfields in hell. Hooray!"
Also, life is so crazy, I am busy, but maybe I will live until June... |
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| 08:03pm 19/01/2008 |
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Blah.
Exhausted.
And feeling like not so hot of a teacher.
:( |
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