In 2008 I graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a BA in German and Linguistics. When I started college, I came in only as a German major. About a year and a half into my degree I discovered linguistics and by my junior year I had added it as a second major. I was fortunate enough to get a summer internship with the LINGUIST List for the summer of 2009, when I began work on MultiTree and became the FYIs editor for the List.

The summer internship has lead to me now attending Eastern Michigan University, where I am pursuing a MA in Linguistics. I am a graduate assistant with The LINGUIST List and continue to work on MultiTree. I am now the Querys and Summaries editor for the List. Fall of 2009 I helped organize travel to the ELIIP Workshop at the University of Utah and was lucky enough to be able to attend. This workshop and some of the classes that I've taken at EMU have opened up my eyes to Language Documentation, which I had had no prior experience with.

My time at EMU has also made me interested in programming and how it can be utilized for language documentation and so many other fields within linguistics. I don't have much programming experience yet beyond Java, but I would like to learn more about computational methods in these areas:

• Historical Linguistics
• Discourse Analysis
• Language Documentation
• Information Retrieval

I love traveling and luckily enough as an undergraduate German major, I had to study abroad. I chose to do my semester abroad in Salzburg, Austria, which was an amazing experience. Having to get used to the Salzbürgerisch dialect was quite interesting and I hope to go back one day and make use of it again. While I wish I could just up and go anytime, as a lowly grad student that's not going to happen anytime soon! One day...

My hobbies are crocheting, playing bad piano, painting, which I never have time for anymore, reading, and watching good movies. I would love to learn how to play violin, but alas, I do not have the free time to learn something like that now.