And we had orientation yesterday afternoon. We all introduced ourselves in a huge group and I hardly remember what anyone said, but it was beautiful, the linguistic terms flowing like water. Then afterwards we had the reception and the beer. I talked to one of the psycholinguistics profs for a long time, then the phonology prof (who is my current advisor) came over and I got to meet him and we talked about conferences and the LSA summer program. I started talking to some of the returning students towards the end and they were all going out for drinks so I went with them. (It's been so long since I went out drinking with the linguists . . . ) It was great talking about linguistics with a group of people again. It's only been two weeks since SIL, but I did miss it. After we got drinks and some food we decided to go join the English grad students' pub crawl. I love that there's an English grad student pub crawl. I only stayed for the first pub because I had to walk back to campus. It was great to talk to the other students about their experiences and to find out that my coming here feeling completely confused and living in a room with only a mattress is not at all rare. Welcome to grad school. It was a good first night, I feel all oriented up (why isn't the opposite of "oriented" "occidented"?) and have been enjoying my reading for Socioling all afternoon. I decided to stay in the class. This department seems to have a Socioling leaning and I want to make sure I'm solid in that area. Anyway, I'll try not to let my posts get too technical.
Posted by linnea at August 26, 2006 7:34 PMMan, I feel like I missed out with the whole matress thing. At least I got confused going for me.
Grad school rocks. It's so much better than undergrad!
Posted by: Jeannette at August 27, 2006 5:18 AM