Hi, I'm Ellie, I do linguistics at Queens'
and I am in second year this year. Queens' is
really great actually for linguistics
because we are one of the colleges that tend
to take more linguists, so we have like
quite a big linguistics community which
is really nice, like we all kind of stick
together and help  each other out. Yeah I've
really enjoyed doing linguistics for a start, it's a really nice blend of sort of
like arty subjects and sort of social
science, so I've been doing like
everything from kind of analyzing sort
of texts in Italian to you know like
doing some computational coding and
stuff, so it's really good if you if you
kind of like like that sort of like
overlap between arts and science. One of
the cool things I really actually is
we do language acquisition and so when
we kind of have like data tasks we'll get
sort of like literally kids like speech
from children and kids speak which is
really cool to study. There's also lots of
cool stuff in like psycholinguistics.
I actually really like Queens' is really
friendly I think I know everyone says
that about their college but I think it's
genuinely true of Queens' like sort of
basically every I've met is like
super friendly it is really nice. Queens'
it's got sort of like it's quite lively
as well like we've got a really great sort of
like an active bar and coffee shop which
is pretty nice. It has like obviously a great
central location so ideal if you're
an art student like me.
Yeah I'd kind of say it's like
people are sort of there's like a lot of
stuff going on here in terms of societies
and stuff but it's kind of maybe not as
intense as some of the other central
colleges and so it's like a good blend
of like work and life.
