I just finished my PhD and want to share 3 personal survival tips that helped me academically and mentally. These made all the difference in navigating the ups and downs of the PhD journey. 🧵👇

just like "ahorita"? :D

Yung subway dito sa Rome, punuan hahaha (rush hour eh) pero parang Maynila lang ah 😆

👀 POV: Me at Parties 🎊 🧑🏽 Other Person: "What do you do?" 👨🏼 Me: "I'm a linguist." 🧑🏽 (excitedly) "Cool! How many languages do you speak?" 👨🏼 (tediously) "Linguistics isn't about how many languages you speak. It's the science of how language works." 🧑🏽(irritated and bored)

It’s 2024 how are you still afraid of MSG. Are you scared of tomatoes?? Do mushrooms terrify you too?? What about cheese omgggg be so fr

There's a transport strike in Rome today and I was so worried that it would be very crowded in the morning because yesterday, the metro was so jam-packed. The trains are very spacious today 😆🤭

에라, 모르겠다

My department (Linguistics, UHM) has NSF funding for PhD students who are interested in community-oriented, collaborative language documentation projects involving the Micronesian diaspora on O‘ahu. Applications due Nov. 25 for Fall '25 admission! manoa.hawaii.edu/linguistics/ph…

Carbonara is overrated

I just learned that 車 is probably an Indo-Aryan loanword to Chinese 😳🤯

I wish all my Armenian friends a happy Independence Day! 🇦🇲❤️ Շնորհավորում եմ իմ բոլոր հայ ընկերներին Անկախության տոնը! 🇦🇲❤️

🇵🇭 on the right side of history 🇵🇸

Then the countdown to longer nights starts 🥺😭

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I loathe the phrase ‘publish or perish’. Publishing from your PhD – What I Wish I’d Known Read on The PhD Place blog, #sponsored by SciSpace thephdplace.com/publishing-fro…

Churches in Italy are so stunning. Probably the most beautiful ones I've seen in Europe.