i just changed my schedule.
next semester i will be taking :
etymology (boring)
language and society (boring)
versailles : life as art in the age of grandeur (potential)
modern irish language (COOL. i think.)
i did so because i am so sick of the linguistics department and want to be done with them as soon as possible, so i am going to take my final two classes and then never speak to any of them again.
aside from the core classes and the brilliant professors who teach them (mark baltin, gafos, lisa davidson, chris barker) and a few select TAs (marcos, violetta, oana), linguistics classes at new york university have been a waste of my time.
i wish i could retake sound & language or semantics. such interesting classes. even drawing sentence trees in grammatical analysis was fun. ( i admit that i learned very little in phonological analysis, but that was maybe my own fault --- and it was quite difficult. difficult enough for me to attempt to BS my way through instead of try to learn the material. it worked ... i got a b+ )
mais non.
better to just graduate and move on.
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