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Dear Subscribers, My name is Susan Smith, and I'm finishing up my M.A. in Linguistics at Wayne State University. After two and a half years as a student employee here at The LINGUIST List, I was recently hired full-time as a project coordinator. My career here may illustrate the diversity of tasks a typical student undertakes at LINGUIST. I started out working on the MultiTree project, gathering books and entering language trees into spreadsheets, and editing Ask-A-Linguist. Since then, I've become the Listserv Administrator, designed logos and Flash videos for Fund Drive and learned some programming while working on the LSA website. I've also learned a lot about organization and teamwork as the team leader for several of our research projects, and had the opportunity to meet and correspond with many linguists. I'm currently working on the new LEGO grant and helping to design a community website for the GOLD Ontology, as well as working on MultiTree and taking care of the Listserv, and I'm learning more than ever. This opportunity not only put me through grad school, it has given me confidence in myself and my future. It's not easy working at The LINGUIST List - there are always deadlines, people telling you to do things you have no idea how to do, and to do them now! Along with the challenges, though, there is a crew of intelligent, diverse and helpful people who are always happy to help and encourage you. Anthony and Helen know how to get us to produce prodigious amounts of work, and they also know how to nurture and tease out abilities we didn't know we had. If you think about everything LINGUIST does, the mailing list and website, the database of linguistic information, the grant projects and tools we develop, and then realize that all of this is being done by students, you might be amazed. I am. Everyone here is dedicated to producing information and infrastructure to help linguists everywhere, and we hope that it is indeed helpful to you. We also think it's very important to provide these services for free, however, our landlords and local grocers don't share that sentiment. Please consider giving whatever you can to ensure that we can continue to work on your behalf - although the times are tough, even a small donation will help. (To be clear, a large donation will also help, if you are so inclined!) https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm Yours sincerely, Susan Smith View Susan's personal page View Susan's hometown tour! |
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