We spent quite a bit of last week working on abstracts for our posters for the Tapia Conference and W&L's SSA Conference. I think that figuring out how to compactly and clearly state our problem, method and goals was really helpful for reminding me about the higher-level reasons for our research. It's really easy to get bogged down in the details. For ex. I looked for patterns in parts of speech for a long time and it was hard to admit that it just wasn't leading anywhere, and when I changed directions it was sort of hard to get back to the bigger problem. We also applied for scholarships to the Tapia Conference last week, and we'll find out about that soon :)