2023

After eight incredible weeks in Nijmegen, I have now settled back into my home in the States. While it's wonderful to be reunited with family, friends, and my dogs, I can't help but admit that I already miss the life I had in Nijmegen. Our final week of running...

The last week of Nijmegen went by quicker than the past 7 weeks. I can't believe how much time has passed. It feels like yesterday when I was preparing for the trip. We ran our final pair of participants last Thursday and returned our key to our temporary office on...

After long days of travel and trying to get over the jet-lag, I can officially say that I am back home and settled in after my trip. As good as it feels to be home, I must say that I really do miss Nijmegen. I had an incredible experience during my time abroad, and I...

I can't believe I am only here for one more week! Last week was a little slow with participants, but this week we had three pairs! Everything went smoothly and we have reached our (new) goal of participants. We wrapped up our last pair today, and are going to campus...

With only one more week left of this program, my research partners who arrived earlier have settled back into their homes. This past week we had three pairs of participants come in for our study! Most of the study ran smoothly. The most recent run was a bit rough. We...

I had a great sixth week in Nijmegen and the time is flying by! This week, we ran several pairs of participants and are getting closer and closer to our goal. We also have two pairs planned for next week, which will bring us to our goal. After running our participants...

It is already week 6. Every week, I feel as though the days go by quickly. I wake up and then it's already dark outside. Now, the past 6 weeks went by in a blink of an eye. We ran our 10th pair yesterday. We had a final group lunch with our supervisor as well....

My weeks here are starting to wind down, but the adventures continue! We were able to run a bunch of participants last week, and as of right now we have enough sign-ups to get us to 31 participants! We are hoping to get a few more if we can as the week goes on, but at...

I cannot believe the fifth week in Nijmegen has already passed! This week, we had a relatively busy week with running participants. We were worried that people would not sign up due to finals week, but we have had great luck with participation that is bringing us...

Today marks the end of week 5 in Nijmegen. It's crazy how quickly time has been passing. I feel as though it was only yesterday since I wrote the last blog. During this past week, we continued to run our experiment. Although we didn't have many pairs come in before,...

I cannot believe that I am already six weeks into this trip; time really does fly! Research has been going great. We had five participants last week and we have six more scheduled for this week. We are hoping to get six more participants total between the rest of this...

I can't believe I am already halfway through my PIRE experience! I have had an amazing time in the Netherlands and I am not quite ready to go home yet! Because of finals week at Radboud, we were not able to run any participants this week. We have 3 pairs scheduled for...

Already halfway into this program, my research partners and I ran a total of 6 pairs of participants. Recruitment has been difficult, but we have three more pairs coming in next week. When we don't have participants, we transcribe the data we collected and try to...

As classes are coming to a close at our University, volunteers for our study increased this week! We had five participants for this past week, and no no-shows! However, now the students are going into their finals weeks, so I am not sure how willing they will be to...

These past few weeks have been pretty busy, but in a great way! We have had a lot more participants sign up for these upcoming weeks, so we are looking forward to keep running sessions. Also, ever since that first week, there have been no issues regarding technical...

The 3rd week flew by real fast. It feels like only yesterday when I wrote the last blog post. Although it took some time, I feel as though I have integrated myself into the Dutch lifestyle (at least in terms of walking around and being used to the sites). The travel...

I had a great third week here in Nijmegen! I have been busy transcribing the files we have gathered so far and going around campus to recruit potential participants. So far, data collection has been a little slow with finals week coming up, but we have some pairs...

I have had an amazing and exciting second week in Nijmegen! After running participants scattered throughout the week, we have been able to start transcribing the recordings. There are a lot of factors to pay attention to (like code-switching and filled pauses), but...

Today marks the 2nd week of our PIRE trip. It feels like it's been longer than two considering how quickly time passes. With the other researchers, we continued to hand out fliers and promote our study. After we passed some fliers, we worked on managing the data we...

First off, I cannot believe that 3 weeks have already gone by! My trip so far has been such an incredible experience, and I cannot wait to see what the rest of my weeks here have in store. This past week was pretty busy as we have been getting a good amount of...

We just finished our first great week in Nijmegen! After some flight complications due to delays and missed flights, we arrived in Nijmegen last Wednesday. After catching our breath and settling into our Airbnb, we met up with the other researchers who arrived a week...

Starting a little later than other researchers, we arrived last Wednesday (5/17). The travel to the Netherlands was a bit of a roller coaster ride. Our first flight got delayed and caused us to miss our connecting flight. We had to do a last minute layover in London...

As we finish up week 2 of our travels, we are definitely getting more settled in the area! The other two researchers on our trip also arrived this week, so we have been showing them around to some of our favorite spots! We also lucked out this week because there were...

Getting settled in the Netherlands was a bit of an adventure for the first few days. The flights and layovers went well, but figuring out the train system once we got here was a little bit complicated. However, once we got to our homes and settled in, we went out for...