2023

It’s hard to believe that this incredible experience is now at an end. Although I did miss my home, I am starting to now really miss the days I spent in Braunschweig. Going back to the beginning of this week, however, it was one of the busiest of the whole trip. We...

As I am writing this I am all done with my stay here in Braunschweig! This has been such an amazing experience that has taught me so much about not only linguistics and research conduction, but also about other cultures. I am excited to go home but I am also going to...

This is our final week at TU Braunschweig and it is a week that is full of work but also fun! The different departments here have parties every now and again and we were lucky enough to be here in time for their summer party. It is tonight and I am very excited.  We...

IT FINALLY HAPPENED!!! I just wanted to share halfway through the week because we finally had over 60 people sign up for our study, which is just so exciting and so rewarding. I cannot believe all of this hard work is finally paying off and cannot wait to start...

I cannot believe I am going home in a week. A WEEK. This trip has been the most fun and fastest experience of my life and I truly am just so grateful to have taken part in this amazing program. I truly am feeling so much gratitude as this comes to an end, but I am...

This week has cemented my confidence in my efforts to recruit people for my experiment.  As of right now I have enough people to reach the lower goal of the desired range of participant numbers. This makes me very happy because the other PIRE students and I have been...

It's hard to believe that we only have one more week left of this incredible experience. I feel like I've become so acclimated to Braunschweig that it will be hard to get used to life back at home. It's also hard to believe that we have almost wrapped up with our...

Wow. I cannot believe I am writing my blog post for my sixth week of researching here in Braunschweig. Time is flying by like there's no tomorrow, but that must mean I'm having fun, which I really am. This past week, Felicity and I ran more than 10 participants, which...

At the beginning of this week, I was quite nervous about whether we would reach our recruitment goal of 60 participants. We only had about 30 participants ran or scheduled at the start of the week, and we weren't sure what else we could do to increase our recruitment...

This week was much less chaotic than last week.  My project is finally starting to pick up and I am feeling confident in our recruitment efforts because last week I had almost 20 participants. This makes me very happy because I only was able to start collecting data...

This week went by incredibly quickly, which makes sense considering how much we were doing this week. Between meetings, class visits, running several participants, acting as a participant myself in a study, and observing a different study, I was quite busy this week....

Hallo alle!! I cannot believe how fast time is flying. My fifth week is officially done over here in Braunschweig. This week went by so fast it doesn't even feel like it happened. We had a bunch of participants this week, which was AWESOME! We had about 10 total this...

This week was a very big and exciting week for my project. I finally started collecting data! This week I got almost 20 participants, and to me that feels like a great start. I hope that this pace continues, but I am not sure if that will be the case because this...

This week was excursion week at the TUB, which means that students get a break from classes. Since most students travel during this break, we only had one participant at the beginning of the week. Since we had a couple of days off this week, we all decided to head out...

Hallo alle!! This past week was an excursion week for the Technische Universität Braunschweig, which meant students had the entire week off for field-trips, excursions, or just relaxing for a nice week-long break. I had reached out to the professor I'm working under...

This week, TU Braunschweig had their excursion week, so almost all of the students were on personal or class trips. I was misinformed in my last post, these excursions are based on the depapement the student is in, not their teacher. My project is all set now and I...

Guten Tag, alle!! This week was nothing short of super busy. Felicity and I had our colloquium with the Anglistik and Amerikanistik team, where we presented what we are researching to everyone in the department. This was terrifying, but it went actually really well...

Research This week was the first week we got to test research participants! It was pretty nerve-wracking at first, since we had to make sure we were remembering each and every step without missing anything. On top of this, we were also using German to communicate with...

This week was a week full of recruiting.  The other students and I had spent the last week posting flyers around the campus with one of the student assistants.  She showed us around the main campus, which had never been to before.  It is a beautiful campus.  We posted...

It's hard to believe that we've been here for two weeks already! Now that I've gotten to spend more time out of the house, it feels like the time is flying by. Since Thursday was a holiday here in Germany, this week, like last week, was a bit slow. We mainly worked on...

Hallo alle!! The second week of my PIRE experience has passed and I am happy to report that this week was even better than the first! Firstly, my lab partner, Felicity Sarnoff, and I have recruited three participants so far (whoop whoop!), which I am extremely proud...

This week I made new strides with my project's finalization. It should hopefully be all ready to go by my next post! This week I met with my American advisor and we discussed the last things we need to do for my project. I am looking forward to it. This week I am...

It is my first week here in Braunschweig, and I have learned so many new things about Europe.  One of the first things I did when I arrived was go to the Lidl which is a small supermarket that is close to where I am staying.  Getting groceries was more stressful than...

Hallo from Braunschweig!! I have finally arrived here in Germany and words cannot even begin to explain just how beautiful it is here! My first day here, I went for a walk around town to get a feel for this place and it is just wonderful here. However, I'm afraid the...

This first week in Braunschweig was quite different from what I had expected. In perhaps the worst timing imaginable, I managed to get sick right before my trip. Flying can be stressful and unpleasant under the best circumstances, so flying while sick was quite rough....