I graduated with a BA in Linguistics from Ohio State in 1982. I didn't do very well, especially for an allegedly smart person--almost flunked Phonology II and don't remember a thing I was taught in that class. The only reason my prof passed me was because it was my last quarter adn he knew my heart wasn't in Phonology.

I don't even remember taking Historical Linguistics, and I did absolutely no drinking or drugging in college--I think I was just too depressed to absorb anything, but that's another story for another tribe.

I liked my Phonetics class the best, probably because I tend to prefer the practical to the theoretical, and my Psycholinguistics class, and the rest was either frustrating or forgettable.

I thought I was going to go into TESOL, but I didn't. The only things I've used my degree for have been to contrive a spelling for my name, "Khrysso," and to work on my enunciation as a singer.

I kind of wish I could go back now and look at some of the material I didn't understand back then and see if my life-experience would make it make more sense. So maybe a Linguistics tribe will give me a bit of an opportunity to revisit a rather dusty and shadowy piece of my past...