On Monday, May 17th, I started an REU at Gallaudet University. I faced a few challenges this week. Working for a set amount of hours was something that I am still getting used to, but I enjoy being able to spend all of this time reading and pondering over questions. It has also helped me enjoy weekends a lot more! Additionally, I definitely struggled a bit to digest literature in a field that was new to me. It took a long time to read through and was frustrating at times. However, meeting with my partner, Rio, and our mentors to discuss thoughts and questions has helped a lot. In fact, I have even been able to start drawing some connections to topics that I am slightly more familiar with, such as prosody. That makes me really excited! Additionally, Rio and I had many directions that we wanted to go in with telecom captioning so these discussions were also helpful in narrowing down our focus to something feasible.