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nyucknyuck

Stanford and Berkeley

May 25, 2008 20:24

I would have gone into detail before, but couldn't as I wasn't on my own computer (but now I am--new computer ftw). For those of you who don't know, I am now officially part of the Stanford University class of 2012. And yes, I know I've always been such a Berkeley fan, but I've been a Stanford fan too. ( Here's why I chose. )

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manky_lank May 26 2008, 12:52:05 UTC

Gorrammit, Kyle, you sexy man. When you say detail, you don't hold back.

I shall read this in more depth than the quick skim I just gave it when it's not 12:50 in the morning and perhaps when I have a couple of free hours, which is not likely to be for a while.

Anyway, hoe, I miss you. Make yourself seen sometime.

nyucknyuck May 26 2008, 22:20:14 UTC

Most of it is just the list, which you can skip--that part was more for me (typed up the written list). In fact, I shall edit it. ty

nyucknyuck May 26 2008, 22:20:33 UTC

Also, I was on msn for a few hours last night, and you were not on. Hmph.

manky_lank May 27 2008, 00:57:35 UTC

Yeah, we had a powercut which took out my PC, so I was offline.

Was staying late at uni anyway though, didn't get home till like, 11:00.

choc_milk May 28 2008, 23:25:12 UTC

A girl on my floor, Claire, is doing a linguistics paper this semester, but she doesn't enjoy it. I mentioned I knew an American about to do linguistics at Stanford and she was like "tell him not to do it!"

Well actually first she was like "Stanford? I am jealous" and I was like "I know, ME TOO".

Also, I don't think you should set much store by what she says, because you already know you are interested in linguistics, whereas she just took it because she's interested in languages (her major is Spanish). But I figured I would let you know anyways.

nyucknyuck May 29 2008, 04:55:23 UTC

lol, thank you.

Yeah, I've heard many times, "DON'T MAJOR IN LINGUISTICS!" I've also had multiple people tell me that the hardest class they took was their linguistics course. I'd say many find it hard because a) it's too "sciencey" for humanities people (including those majoring in Spanish), but it's too "humanity"-ish for people in the hard sciences. So it's stuck in between and really isn't for most people. But I heart it. =D

choc_milk May 29 2008, 07:01:45 UTC

Yeah, the thing with Claire is, she actually went to a Maori immersion school as a child and couldn't write English (she could speak it, although her Maori was better) until she was eleven or twelve. So I think she finds linguistics hard because there are so many English terms to learn that she hasn't really come across before. She didn't do English intensively in high school so she gets things like alliteration and assonance confused.

You definitely should major in linguistics; it's you. ;)