And the writing begins...

Northeastern has officially finished its spring semester, and this means that I'm on summer break and done with my second year of graduate school!

It's been a pretty big year. In September, a group of my friends and I founded The Boston Society of Cognitive Science, or BSOCS for short. We got a lot of big name researchers/thinkers to come and talk to the graduate students in the Boston area about fundamental issues in cognitive science and related disciplines. In March, I presented my research on language production at the 21st Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing in Chapel Hill, NC and also defended my master's research at Northeastern. After a month of wandering aimlessly into the lab looking for RAs to entertain me, playing too much online Scrabble, and generally being useless, it's now time to write. My academic goals for this summer are to finish my thesis, submit my first manuscript, and begin to formulate the studies that will become the research program that will eventually become my dissertation - big stuff. I'm also thinking about working with the BSOCS organizers to turn our organization into a non-profit, which will probably require more writing and thinking.

My goal for this site is to keep all my contact information in one place, post interesting links about cognitive science or language research, and to update those who care about what I'm up to - mostly academically, but I'm sure personal stuff will find its way on here, too.

Thanks for visiting, and look for new stuff soon!