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My First Desk on Campus

My First Desk on Campus

The good and bad of moving into a student office

June 20, 2018 | Sherry C.

The key to my new student office finally arrived in the mailbox. On my first day as a graduate student of the linguistics program, I found my way to the office, and stood outside the door for a minute before opening it. I had never had an office of my own before. What would the […]

Build Bridges, not Walls

Build Bridges, not Walls

Celebrating linguistic diversity at MIT

March 9, 2018 | Sherry C.

When the movie Arrival came out in 2016, I was overjoyed: for the first time, a woman linguist was the main character in a Hollywood movie, not to mention the fact that the linguistic consultant of this film – Jessica Coon – is an MIT Linguistics alumna herself. But I was more excited about the public […]