Memoirs of a Linguist
Blog URL http://www.linguist-in-waiting.com
Tags academia, travel, PhD, graduate school, backpacking
This blog is about the daily activities of a 27-year-old graduate student, who daydreams of seeing the world, while ranting about people around him, as he attempts to get the elusive three-letters after his name.
Latest Blog Posts
- Flu or Food Poisoning? on Nov 22, 2009
I've been sick. This past week was fun and disastrous at the same time. Well, this weekend was the weekend when two of my friends from Toronto were visiting me, so that was fun (and worth of a separate blog entry) but at the same time, Mr. Murphy dec...
- Getting Carded on Nov 19, 2009
Even though I have been living in the United States for quite some time now, it still presents interesting and head-scratching occasions. Like the event of getting carded, for example.Most of the time, I expect to be carded whenever I would be purcha...
- The Paper Mill on Nov 18, 2009
The other day, I attended a student-run academic speed dating within the department. No, I wasn't trying alternative means to finding a person to date. Rather, it was more of an initiative by the students to get to know each other, and see what other...
- Learning Curves on Nov 17, 2009
Recently, I migrated my professional email address from the WebMail that the university has been providing to a Google-powered one. The thing is, the university is subsidizing its email services to Google starting from this year, and it is effective...
- The Dwarfs on Nov 16, 2009
The other day, the ninja and I wanted to just hang out together, so I asked whether she would be interested in seeing a play that was being produced in campus. The director happened to be the son of a professor in the department, and the director's s...
- Goodbye Wikipedia on Nov 15, 2009
Yesterday night, I terminated my account in Wikipedia. It was about time. I deleted all my user pages, all my user talk pages, blanked all the pages that described my being, and all that. I then made a request to the admins asking to allow me to exer...
- Sex, Violence, and the American Culture on Nov 14, 2009
So, for the past few days, there have been plenty of opportunities for me to wonder about this topic. See, this past week, the school newspaper released the Sex Issue, and it tackled plenty of topics relating to sex. The front page even included a su...
