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trocheeLast night late I got back from $SouthBayResearchLab which is collaborating with my research group.
I was wiped out all day because we arrived late Wednesday night, I couldn't sleep well at our (cheap!) motel, and we started at 8am the next morning. But our phone call with $GermanLab went well, and we settled a number of previously-annoying technical details.
We had a lot of engaged technical discussions, and although one or two of the people at the meeting ground their personal axes [that's /ae k s ih z/, not /ae k s iy z/], $Advisor and I kept it pretty pleasant and pretty focused.
$Director liked me a lot, and I'm happy about that. $Advisor told him that I might be moving down to the Bay Area, and he asked me "how long does $Advisor have you, before you graduate?" and when I told him, he said "good, then I'll have you for a while." So it sounds good for the prospects of working at $SouthBayResearchLab while I'm finishing up. Also maybe a job at $SouthBayResearchLab is possible?
In the car back to the airport, $Advisor told me that she thought I was impressively well-prepared, and that I clearly understood and was engaged with the big ideas. "I already knew you were good, but everybody there got to see just how great you are. $Researcher was really impressed." That was really great -- especially because $Advisor is not usually very forthcoming with praise.
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imtboo on the trip, even though it was only a day. It was nice to see her and be back. I'm still feeling tired, though, and not quite caught up on sleep. I have a lot to do -- but these are interesting questions that were raised from the trip, and definitely the beginnings of a dissertation. onward!
I was wiped out all day because we arrived late Wednesday night, I couldn't sleep well at our (cheap!) motel, and we started at 8am the next morning. But our phone call with $GermanLab went well, and we settled a number of previously-annoying technical details.
We had a lot of engaged technical discussions, and although one or two of the people at the meeting ground their personal axes [that's /ae k s ih z/, not /ae k s iy z/], $Advisor and I kept it pretty pleasant and pretty focused.
$Director liked me a lot, and I'm happy about that. $Advisor told him that I might be moving down to the Bay Area, and he asked me "how long does $Advisor have you, before you graduate?" and when I told him, he said "good, then I'll have you for a while." So it sounds good for the prospects of working at $SouthBayResearchLab while I'm finishing up. Also maybe a job at $SouthBayResearchLab is possible?
In the car back to the airport, $Advisor told me that she thought I was impressively well-prepared, and that I clearly understood and was engaged with the big ideas. "I already knew you were good, but everybody there got to see just how great you are. $Researcher was really impressed." That was really great -- especially because $Advisor is not usually very forthcoming with praise.
I missed
imtboo on the trip, even though it was only a day. It was nice to see her and be back. I'm still feeling tired, though, and not quite caught up on sleep. I have a lot to do -- but these are interesting questions that were raised from the trip, and definitely the beginnings of a dissertation. onward!
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hooray for South Bay RL
Date: 2008-03-02 10:04 pm (UTC)One interesting Google find, however, was that there's a Japanese blogger who seems to be a language scientist. Check out "Manabu Sassano's Antenna" (http://a.hatena.ne.jp/sassano/) and see if you can appreciate (in Japanese) why this person is copying your blog entries!!
Re: hooray for South Bay RL
Date: 2008-03-03 11:24 pm (UTC)i went and looked at the Japanese blog and it looks like his website is an aggregator, copying the body of several blogs into one place (probably to make it easier for him to read). Still nice to know that somebody's reading it from Japan!