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swedishbadgergirl  ·  3420 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Dear Hubski, how is your life?

Congratulations! What in? The PhD I mean? I am starting the first year if IB for the second time because of health issues. Which isn't wonderful but I was a year ahead so timewise I'm not worse off and it is better than stressing myself to oblivion trying to make up tonnes of missed school in an already busy schoolyear.

My ultimate plan is to study microbiology abd hopefully research within the field.



boramalper  ·  3420 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm sorry to hear that, get well soon! I am starting the IB too, and it's the first time. I wish luck to both of us!

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user-inactivated  ·  3419 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Lol get ready

Jk it's not that bad

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caeli  ·  3420 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Cognitive Science. I study how people process and produce language, specifically in multiword expressions.

Good luck with IB and microbiology!! When you get to college don't be afraid to approach professors to get involved in research right away. You want to start getting experience right away. And don't forget to have fun! College flies by so incredibly fast...

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swedishbadgergirl  ·  3419 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That seems super interesting - are you doing a specific project/researching a specific thing?

Akso thanks.

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caeli  ·  3418 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Right now I'm working on two experiments that test whether people store sequences of longer than one word in long-term memory. My undergrad thesis work suggests they do! Now I'm looking into how people use these multi-word representations during processing -- are they favored over single-word representations in highly frequent expressions, how do people form these representations in the first place, etc? I think my PhD dissertation work will focus a lot on mechanism rather than representation, but that might change.

No problem. And seriously, congrats on making it this far -- I read a bit through your history and you've come a long way with your health problems and everything.

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swedishbadgergirl  ·  3414 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thank you!

Also, share the dissertation when done, seriously do it.

The science world is amazing. Apperently there is such a thing a "sexy son hypothesis"

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