Spring 2023 Graduates

Thank you to my family for always supporting me in my dreams and encouraging me all the way until the finish line. I love and appreciate you all! I can’t wait to see what the future holds for me.

"You'll find...that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort." - The Mathemagician in The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster Q: How many descriptivists does it take to change a lightbulb? A: It doesn't need to be changed. Dark rooms and light rooms are equally well-formed; one isn't 'better' than the other.

I want to thank the linguist I met when I was sixteen who taught me about linguistics and sparked my love for it, I want to thank my hilarious family for teaching me the importance of words and phrasing, and I want to thank my dog for providing excellent stress relief while I studied

"If this isn't nice what is?" - Kurt Vonnegut

Eternally grateful for my family, friends, and loved ones for all the unconditional support over the past few years!

Thank you to my family and the staff who believed in me. You are the reason I got to where I am today.

I am incredibly grateful to my friends and family for their endless support and love!

This has been such a wonderful department to be a part of the past four years. I especially want to thank Drs. Laura Michaelis and Rebecca Scarborough for their guidance in research and patience in working with me.

My heartfelt appreciation to my spouse, Mahshab, for her continuous support and care throughout my doctoral studies. She has been my rock, keeping me level-headed and providing me with the emotional support I needed to persevere through the challenges of this journey. I am currently an NLP research scientist in a startup company in Baltimore, MD, working remotely from our new home in Portland, OR.

"The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup; you hold my lot. The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance" Psalm 16:5-6

Thank you so much to my friends and family who have supported me at my time at CU! After graduation, I will be working as a Plant Ecology Volunteer Coordinator with Boulder County Parks and Open Space.

To Sam and Foxy: thank you for your unwavering support. Thank you to all my family and friends for being here today! I love you all so much, and here's to new adventures!

Thank you to the whole Linguistics department — it’s been a great major. I want to give special thanks to Dr. English for all that I learned in Peace and Conflict Studies, and to Dr. Sokhey, Dr. Narasimhan, and Dr. Scarborough for the great Studio Lab experience. I’m very grateful for the opportunity to learn and participate in the development of a real research study.

Thank you to my family and friends for helping me through, and especially to my grandparents for my ability to be here in the first place

Green's my color. I'm spring! (Ross Gay)

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” - Aristotle

Unacknowledgements: 1) to COVID for ruining my Freshman and Sophomore Year, 2) to coffee for just making me more tired, 3) to the United States Government for making university so damn expensive, 4) to tape worms ‘cause I dunno I’m just not a fan of the concept, & 5) to myself for signing up for too many damn things… Acknowledgements: 1) to my mother and grandmother for somehow knowing where...

Thank you to my amazing family and friends for their constant support throughout my academic career and pushing me to be the best version of myself.

Thank you so much to my family, partner, and professors for encouraging me to explore the possibility that I might be a linguist. I found my home at CU in the Linguistics department, and I’m excited to return in the fall as a graduate student!

I am so thankful to my family, friends, professors and CU staff who have supported me throughout my time here. Thank you for always being there.

I want to thank my parents, family, friends, church, and coworkers for encouraging me to continue forward to this day. I hope to continue to make you all proud. My plans post-graduation are to continue to work remotely for Finch AI on NLP problems.

I hope you find peace, wherever your life may take you.

To my friends, mentors, and family: It would have been near impossible to accomplish this all by myself. Fortunately, you kept reminding me that I wasn't alone. Thank you for believing in me until the end of this journey. A new adventure awaits!

The Wind is Rising. We must try to live.

Olivia would like to offer one last heartfelt thank-you to everyone who has supported her throughout her time here at CU, including every one of her instructors, advisors, mentors, peers/colleagues, and of course friends and family. While she is a bit sad that her baccalaureate journey has come to an end, she is optimistic about what the future holds, all the while knowing that whatever she ends up doing, her...

Future plans to go on to pursue a Master’s in Computational Linguistics.

爸爸妈妈姥爷姥姥爷爷我毕业啦！谢谢你们一直以来养育支持我，我爱你们♡