The Adventure of a Lifetime

During April of this year, I submitted my Masters' thesis proposal to the ACL Student Research Workshop at the prodding of my thesis adviser, Ms. Charibeth Cheng. Since the main purpose of the submission was simply to get reviewer feedback, I totally forgot about it afterwards and went on with my life. Fast forward to June, I happily awoke to good news sitting in my e-mail: my paper had been accepted! I was going to Berlin and attend a top-tier Natural Language Processing (NLP) conference participated in by Facebook, Google, and Amazon! Immediately after the initial elation though, a million worries started to flood my head.