Shawna Mattison

I love solving puzzles. Be it crosswords, sudoku, how to draw a syntax tree or debugging a wannabe Angry Birds game I made for Java class, I love it all. I'd say I have a knack for creative problem solving and a passion for constant improvement and learning.

I'm looking to get a job in either computational linguistics or something to do with the internet (either web design or social media). Just somewhere where I can solve puzzles every day, be creative and utilize my newest passion: programming.

I'm a work hard, play hard kind of girl and I love music, making ice cream, and reading post-apocalyptic/dystopian future novels. Oh, I also have an etsy.

Current projects:

• getting my BA in Linguistics from UC Santa Cruz (I graduate in June!)
• a psycholinguistics experiment investigating the real-time processing of WH-questions
• entertaining listeners of my radio show, Willy Wonky and the Beat Factory
• adding to my list of known languages: Mandarin, Spanish, Japanese, Java and Python