Yesterday I was walking into Schlotzsky's (or maybe I was walking out, I don't know) and I thought to myself, "You know, I get over myself just a little bit every day..."
I still have such a long way to go; I think I am the most selfish person alive...
In other news, I registered for classes. If you have been wondering, yes my academic plans changed pretty dramatically from when I first came to Austin. I am now studying Linguistics. Whenever someone asks me, "Why do you want to study Linguistics? What languages do you know? Do you want to be a speech therapist or a linguist?" I don't really know what to say to them. I just think languages and people groups and the way we learn and communicate are all incredible phenomena. Like, in the beginning was...
the Word. Language seems to me to be very important to God. He reveals who He is to humanity through a particular language, people group, culture and time period in history. It's significant. So, the idea of language itself, and the in's and out's of how it's structured and what it does within our brains, is what I want to study.
And after that, we'll see what else I want to study/pursue/do as a job. My ultimate vision/dream in life - for now as well as the future - hasn't changed...just the school part.
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"I get by just a little bit, just a little bit that way..."
i love that... in the beginning was the Word.
God spoke everything into existence...
oh man, I thought about majoring in linguistics too. we crack me up.
gaaaaaaaaaaaasp! Holy cow! We are totally twin souls!!! Will you marry me?
Seriously, I desperately wanted to major in Linguistics, but didn't feel like I was supposed to leave ORU. Now, I dream of a masters in Linguistics or Sociolinguistics or Psycholinguistics or even Computational Linguistics (originally what took me to California from Texas). Sigh. It's okay - maybe I will never study it formally which would keep me out of writing millions of papers - a plus. And I can keep it as my favorite hobby! But I think I'd pretty much rock Linguistics, like I'm sure you will.
Are you going to UT? They have Turkish there!