LingFrog

LingFrog

Student and her armless frog alter-ego ribbit about all things linguistics and grad school.

New Series: University Linguistics Explanations

For the last year, I worked for an educational company writing articles and flashcard sets. It started out with AP English content and eventually moved into college-level linguistics content. It was an ideal job for my first semester of grad school: When I wasn’t reading and working on tasks for my linguistics classes, I was…

December 27, 2022
Bicycles and Linguistics (they’re kind of related)

By Abbie Amick, June 21 2022 I bought a bike last week. Even though I’m not good with bikes, I got this one hoping to commute to and from UNC campus while working toward my MA in linguistics. Over the last few years, I’ve seen professors, students, and close linguist friends riding around on their…

June 21, 2022
Apply for Grad School with Me: Statement of Purpose

You’re plugging away at your grad school applications, fixing up your CV, filling out the forms on the clunky af online portal. Close to the end of the application form, you click that “Next” button that shows up in a slightly different place on the page every time for some reason, and see the description…

May 20, 2022
Writing Unapologetically – Projecting Confidence in your own Work

In November 2020, I submitted the first full draft of my bachelor’s thesis to my mentor at UT. It was a jumbled, half-formed explanation of all the work I had done in the last year – graphs created by someone who doesn’t really know how to use RStudio yet were competing with the text blocks…

February 6, 2022
Apply for Grad School with Me – Taking Gap Time and Supplementing your Experience

Apply for Grad School with Me: learn along with me in this series as I navigate each step of the grad school application process. I don’t have all the answers and I can’t promise success, but I’ll share what I learn as I go. Feel free to contribute in the comments with what you’ve learned…

January 8, 2022