I'm obviously in it for the fame 
and money.
People hear that you're a linguistics major,
and they're like,
"Oh, wow can I have your autograph?"
No, actually they're like, 
"What is that?"
The answer to "What is that?"
is it's a lot of things.
One of the fun things this semester
in particular has been
hearing all of the wildly different things 
my classmates are studying.
Linguistics is a really big umbrella.
There's a lot of ways to study language,
and they're all really cool.
It s incredible that all human societies
have languages,
and that we can even communicate 
with each other at all
I just think is so incredible.
It's really just like you're solving 
a giant riddle.
Like every language is a giant 
anagram of your own language.
I get to use a lot of different 
thought processes
to approach the single issue of
how the human language faculty works.
So I get to use the more formal side of things, 
the more mathematical side of me,
the more experimental side.
I'm specifically interested, 
as a pre-med student,
in how are all these different 
features of language
implemented in real time, 
when people communicate.
And I was drawn to linguistics 
by lesion studies
of people that have speech impairments
 due to some outside factor,
and specifically what does 
the linguistic theory say
that can translate into clinical applications 
towards treating these afflictions.
I also think linguistics has 
a lot of relevance in...
in just studying people.
It's not only a science.
It is a social social science.
The majors, there are 14 of us, 
including myself,
(is that right?)
and what's really cool is that 
I think that I wouldn't
have known a lot of them before,
but we have developed this really 
tight-knit community.
We're close.
It's really cool, and I think 
that that's something
that is missing in a lot 
of other majors.
