Results are in

And they are, according to my advisor, “compelling and highly publishable”.

My experiment was a raging success! After I defend, I’m taking my results on the road, ASHA in November, Motor Speech in February, and maybe Nijmegen the year after. Not to mention some publications, probably. If you’re curious what I was studying this whole time, feel free to ask, as I’m quite expansive and eager to explain to anyone who is interested.

There are times when you hate your thesis so much you never, ever want to talk about it. You pray that everyone you meet is a total science-phobe, just so you don’t have to go into the  gruesome details about your project. Ideally, at these times people won’t even ask what your thesis is, in which case you will exhale a quiet thank you to Moses. Maybe they’ll assume you looked so cracked out because you’re a crackhead. Maybe they’ll think you’re part of the janitorial staff because you’re loitering in the building at all hours. Whatever it is, you’ll willingly accept their assumption if it means you don’t have to talk about your fucking thesis.

But: there are other times when you’re so psyched on your research that you want to climb up on rooftops and take drugs while hugging strangers and shoot road flares into the night in celebration. And when you’re done with that you want use your hands and any readily available citrus fruit to gesticulate wildly and illustrate between group differences, and maybe spray paint to draw graphs on any empty surface. So if you need me, check the roof.