31.3060, Staff Letter: Becca Morris

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LINGUIST List: Vol-31-3060. Thu Oct 08 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.3060, Staff Letter: Becca Morris

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Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2020 21:46:45
From: LINGUIST List [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Staff Letter: Becca Morris

 
Dear LINGUIST List readers,

Hej everyone, my name is Becca Morris and I am the Managing Editor here at
LINGUIST List (LL) and I am also responsible for posting careers, creating
social media boosts, and all things finance related. We may have met via
email, or you may remember my staff letters from previous years.

It has been two years since I started at LINGUIST List and it has truly been a
wonderful experience and opportunity. I am now a third year PhD student in
Computational Linguistics at Indiana University and I would not have been able
to continue if I hadn’t gotten my graduate assistantship job at LL – I came to
IU as an out-of-state and unfunded MA student. By employing graduate students,
The LINGUIST List allows us to contribute to our field in an impactful way,
while at the same time they are helping us tremendously by providing the means
for us to continue our educations and support ourselves.

Since my staff letter last year, I have switched my area of research to
parsing, specifically Dependency Parsing with a concentration on Swedish. I
will be completing my qualifying exams this year and will then become a
candidate.

I also had the opportunity to do a semester abroad in Sweden this Spring! Even
though it got cut short because of Covid-19, it was a wonderful experience and
I made life-long friends that are still in Sweden. I was also able to network
with researchers who are also working on parsing Swedish, and I got to to
learn more Swedish! It was such an amazing experience that I am hoping to do a
post doc there after I graduate.

Working at LL has taught me many things, for example, how to make valuable
connections with notable people in our field and how to become better at time
management. These are valuable skills that I will use throughout my career.
This job also allows the editors and programmers to see what is going on in
our field and provides us the opportunity to contribute to academia in a
meaningful way.

LINGUIST List provides our field with vital resources and we couldn’t do it
without your support. When you support The LINGUIST List you are not just
supporting the editors and the programmers, but also the linguistics community
as a whole.

This year is LINGUIST List's 30th anniversay and we could not have done it
without your support, and we hope that we can continue to provide the
community with linguistic resources.

Thank you again for all of your support, everyone here at LINGUIST List is
forever grateful to all of you. If would like to help us to continue providing
resources to the linguistic community please visit our fund drive page and
donate.

Tack så mycket!

Sincerely,

Becca Morris
Managing Editor
Careers Editor
Invoicing Officer
LINGUIST List






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