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Today in our meeting, my advisor said something that caught me completely off guard. She said: "Your writing has improved so much since you started. I'm really proud of how far you've come." I almost cried right there in her office. Not sad tears. Not stressed tears. Just... proud tears. For...

Random question that's been on my mind: I've lived in the US for five years. I speak English all day, every day. I teach in English. I write my dissertation in English. I think in English when I'm working. But I still dream in my native language. Every single night. My dreams are in the language...

I'm an international PhD candidate in my third year. My dissertation is on computational linguistics (ironic, right?). My English is... okay. I can have conversations, I can teach undergrads, I can read academic papers just fine. But WRITING a 200-page dissertation? In English? That's a whole...