Finishing up the semester.
- Finished up a semester of TAing. I really like teaching, so immediately rewarding, to see minds grow week by week. Research is so long-term by contrast (start working on a problem, get good results after 3 months, publish after 6 months).
- Signed Google’s job offer last week (will be working in their Santa Monica location part time next semester while I finish my thesis). Am not yet sure how much I can talk publicly about what I’ll be working on, but it’s got a lot to do with ontologies and tags.
- Attending what promises to be an excellent workshop on language learner modeling at OSU in mid December. It fits perfectly in with my research of modeling learner errors; I have high hopes for my time there.
- Later in December, the wife and I are taking my parents to Taiwan this Christmas. Two weeks. I’m pretty sure it is their first international trip, outside of a few days we spent in Vancouver, British Columbia (which is as American as you can get and still be in a foreign country) on a family vacation we took when I was in Junior High. Not to say that they aren’t culturally open (I grew up eating foods from a variety of different cultures), they just haven’t traveled too much. It will be awesome (we hope). Lots of places to visit out there (San Yi, Lu Gang, Hua Lian, Ying Ge…)
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Congrats, Nick,
for finishing the semester! =)