PIRE I

by Jennifer Rebecca Kline Each week I'm here, I gain more respect for researchers. Talk about detail oriented! One small error can throw off an entire experiment. I've been running through my scripts over and over again trying to catch a missing letter or an...

by Jennifer Rebecca Kline I can't believe it's finally here! The day when I can safely say: No. More. Splicing. After hours upon hours spent breaking sentences up by the word, I have all my stimuli ready to go! I'm so excited to start running participants. Hopefully,...

by Jennifer Rebecca Kline As the plane descended below the cloud line, I saw my first glimpse of the Netherlands! Two words immediately came to mind: lush and wet. There are open pastures, leafy trees, and rich shrubbery stretching for miles. Scattered between fields...

by Jennifer Rebecca Kline Hallo! (Dutch is easy). My name is Jenny Kline, and I cannot believe my next entry will be sent from Nijmegen, the Netherlands!

by Daniel Jeffrey Magerman Hola! This is Daniel Magerman reporting from Colombia where I am beginning to gather data for my PIRE research. In a few weeks I'll check back in from Nijmegen, the Netherlands with more on the project!

by Kaylee M Roupas The past two weeks have been the craziest, most exhausting, and downright chaotic weeks of my entire PIRE experience...in a completely good way. I believe I last posted while I was in the process of running participants, transcribing BNTs, and...

by Kaylee M Roupas Okay, maybe not so much a crisis as merely a lot of participants, work, and time pressure to get a lot done before I go home. (Hence why I haven't posted in a while.) My time here is flying by, and I can't believe it's ending in a little over 3...

by Kaylee M Roupas Today is my fourth day of running participants, and so far, no significant problems have occurred!  This is exciting for me because I'm the poster child of "technologically impaired".  However, the participants seem to have some problems either...

by Kaylee M Roupas It always has, and it always will. I'm always nervous I'll mess something up and end up lost forever. I wish I was kidding. But going abroad this summer isn't just about research, right? It's about opening yourself up to new things and maybe even...

by Kaylee M Abend I love this city. I love this country. I love the people here. I love the language. I love the bicycles. I love the little houses. I love the stroopwafels. I love everything. The end. Day 1: I arrived Monday morning jet-lagged and still a little sick...

by Jesse Lynn Martz hello hello hello!  I'm laying in bed while I type this, laying under the covers because I am cold.  Last weekend it was beautiful and sunny.  These past couple days mother nature has been playing a wicked trick on me, making me believe it's winter...

by Jesse Lynn Martz Hello all:)  I realize I've been slacking on this blog entry, and forgot last week.  As the days pass I'm coming to love Nijmegen more and more, it is such a laid back environment with suh friendly and outgoing people.  I've been busy in the lab...

by Jesse Lynn Martz Hallo from de Nederlands!  I will start with the beginning of my journey.  Before leaving I had a bittersweet feeling, filled with excitement and nervousness.  As a first time traveler outside of the US I wondered what it would be like traveling to...

by James Ray Graham Well, time has certainly flown by and it's now 13 days until I leave Nijmegen. I've tested 25 participants so far with 15 more scheduled, and at least one person signs up every day. There were a couple days where I was a bit worried that I may have...

by James Ray Graham As I described in my last post, it certainly took a long time to start actually running participants, but this week it finally happened. At last, empirical confirmation that I am indeed here with a reason and a purpose, and at halfway through my...