{"id":1526,"date":"2020-04-01T17:56:42","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T17:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/?p=1526"},"modified":"2021-08-31T17:14:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T17:14:00","slug":"welcome-incoming-students-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/welcome-incoming-students-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"A Warm Welcome to Our Incoming Students!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Please join me in welcoming some of our students who will be with us this fall!<\/span><\/h4>\n

They’ve each graciously agreed to write a short bio about themselves, so we hope you enjoy getting to know them.<\/h4>\n
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Akane Ohtaka<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Akane<\/p>\n

Hi everyone, my name is Akane Ohtaka. I am from Japan, and I have been studying Syntax since I was a third-year undergraduate student at Tsuda University. I am happy that I could finally be a member of the Rutgers Linguistics family, which means Prof. Ken Safir is like my father, and Huteng Dai is like my (twelve years) younger brother…!?? Anyway, nice to meet you all \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

This is a picture of me with one of my former advisors, Prof. Masayuki Ike-uchi.<\/p>\n

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Meg Gotowski<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Meg<\/strong><\/p>\n

My name is Meg Gotowski. I am originally from the Philly area– go Phillies!– but I have moved around quite a bit over the years. I am interested in language acquisition, and most of my research concerns topics within semantics and syntax. Before linguistics, I studied K-12 education, and teaching still has a special place in my heart. When I am not running experiments, I love to run miles. I have not missed a daily run since September 5, 2018!\u00a0 I am looking forward to starting my 4th year at Rutgers in the Fall \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Tadjou-N\u2019Dine Mamadou Yacoubou<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

My name is Tadjou-N\u2019Dine Mamadou Yacoubou and I am from the beautiful septentrional municipality of Tchaourou in Benin. I did my undergraduate at the University of Abomey-Calavi where I double majored in linguistics and English. My pursuit of graduate education took me to the University of Iowa for an MA in Linguistics with a focus on Teaching English as a Second Language (yes, that\u2019s literally what\u2019s written on my diploma) and then to Rutgers, and you know the rest of the story.<\/p>\n

Coming to Rutgers, my goal was (and, well, still is) to specialize in Phonology but little did I know that I\u2019ll put on all the possible shades of being a phonologist in the twenty first century, like being an experimental, computational, mathematical and theoretical phonologist (PHEW!). As it turns out, this is one of the very few places you can be all of that and much more. So, I couldn\u2019t be any luckier to be a member of this great academic family.<\/p>\n

I love having fun with everything I do but my top ranked hobbies will have to be soccer and dance (not necessarily in that order and please don\u2019t make me choose). I also love writing poetry and LOOOVE performing them. I give bonus points for being allowed to write\/perform in French. My life\u2019s philosophy, when life was simpler, used to be: ‘Begin with the end in mind\u2019 but now it’s \u2018Begin with the end in mind and have fun along the way without losing sight of the goal and remember to pray and exercise.’ Actually it\u2019s longer than that but for reasons of space… (the things grad school does to you, sigh!).<\/p>\n

Anyhow, it’s nice to meet you all\u2026again.<\/p>\n

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The perfect analogy of a graduate student\u2019s life.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Poem:\u00a0Unlock the clock<\/u><\/p>\n

Let the clock sweep the 360 degrees,
\nLet it erase our memories
\nAnd nourish our horizons,
\nLoosening our chains, closing our prisons;
\nLet it give a walking-stick to the child
\nAnd a meaning to whatever, today, we build;
\nFor there is neither a pause in the walk for life
\nNor a break in the movement of stars.
\nBut let the clock make us humans, not colors;
\nDreams and candles, not rocks.
\nLet the clock’s tic\u2026 tac\u2026 toc\u2026
\nRock our restless walk,
\nLet it balance the scale of our differences,
\nLet it give birth to new sequences
\nIn our wrestle for better,
\nFor a piece of sky, for a smile that matters.<\/p>\n

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Happy April Fool’s Day!<\/span><\/h3>\n

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