Looking back on past entries, I realise I've had this "linguistics" dream going for a while now. I think it sprang up sometime last summer, but has been more in-focus since winter time... this is a good sign. I think my fears now aren't so much that I would suffer in the field of study - I think I would actually do just fine, even at Harvard. My fears are more that I would lose touch with anything creative, and that I might lag behind in the learning two languages part. I am excited, and very willing/ wanting to learn languages, it's actually something that has attracted me to the field of linguistics, but since I haven't had the best experience with languages at RPI, it makes me nervous that I would be diving into something over my head - which I guess the grad schools would make me aware of upon my visits to them. I'm actually starting to think more and more that NYU is the better choice of the two schools. I think they would provide me with the best environment to engage in this type of study, while also being open to me keeping up my interests in the arts. I'm not positive, but I feel like Harvard is looking for more of a purist in the field, someone completely dedicated to linguistics, with minimal interests outside its realm. (another facet I like about NYU is that - as far as I know - they look at the whole package, without judging stupid standardized test scores as an important decision per each applicant) Not to mention all of my friends are super-supportive of NYU, because they all plan on moving to the city after graduation... that would help me out in the roommate department, and the having-friends part. It would be like a dream to move to the city and have all my high school and college friends there to see whenever possible. Ahh - my dreams - always greater... or at least different from reality.
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