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One Last Time

Earlier today [last week], as I was driving back to State College from spending Easter weekend at my grandma’s house and listening to “Hamilton”, the song “One Last Time” came on. For those unfamiliar with “Hamilton”, “One Last Time” is about George Washington telling...

Living in Two Worlds

Exactly a week ago [at the time of writing this blog], I was soundly asleep after dancing in THON. 48 hours ago, I was soundly asleep after spending 12 hours interviewing to be a PhD student. In 48 hours, I will be interviewing candidates for a position that I...

How do you define language?

This semester, I’m sitting in on a graduate-level course on child language development. The class, Theories and Current Research Issues in Language Development, aims to evaluate the many theories surrounding how children come to develop language, with a specific...

Psychonomics

November 9-12 was the 58th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, a conference centered on the broad topic of experimental psychology (with a focus on cognition). It also happened to be my first Psychonomics—and I had a poster!  (in case it isn’t clear, this...

Becoming a Peer

It’s been a while since I blogged about the work I’m doing in my research lab, but the past few weeks have been an exciting time for me. Over summer 2016 I spent two months in the Netherlands conducting an independent experiment. I had 25 participants who each...

Aeschbacher’s challenges

Every year in Leadership JumpStart, we bring in Professor Peter Aeschbacher from the Department of Architecture at Penn State to help the class work on finding ways to make their projects both unique and actualizable. Yesterday’s class was Aeschbacher’s second visit...

How do you quantify involvement and contributions?

As I watch my senior friends finish out their last organization meetings, I’ve been thinking a lot about what they’ve brought to the organizations and activities they were involved in. For Springfield today, all of the graduating seniors gave a speech about their time...

The ten cousins, (not quite) together at last

This weekend I went to my grandma’s house to celebrate Easter, and (perhaps most noticeably) bake bread. With the exception of an aunt and cousin, the entire family was there for dinner on Saturday. It was the first time my older cousin Mac had been to the house for...

Marathoning at Relay

I’ve participated in Relay for Life for five years now, and every year I go into it with the same goal: walk the equivalent of a marathon. 26 miles, plus an extra lap. I have reached this goal every year, and often surpass it. In fact, this year I reached 30 miles....