{"id":11,"date":"2018-04-30T15:04:05","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T19:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ling\/?p=11"},"modified":"2019-01-30T11:52:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T16:52:12","slug":"senior-spotlight-claudia-garber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ling\/2018\/04\/30\/senior-spotlight-claudia-garber\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Spotlight: Claudia Garber, Class of 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why did you choose to study Linguistics?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I initially came to UVM as a Chemistry major and remained in the Chem department for the first year. However, when I took LING 80 as a ‘fun’ class, because I was interested in phonetics and enjoyed my French language courses, I fell in love. The same minute details and structures that I was learning about in Chemistry applied to Linguistics, except instead of the periodic table, atoms, molecules, and compounds, I was looking at sounds, sentence constituents and morphemes. I switched majors the next semester and never looked back!<\/p>\n

What was your favorite LING course at UVM?<\/strong><\/p>\n

My favorite course was either Phonetics or Syntax. As I said, my brain tends to like looking at very structured and mathematical problems.<\/p>\n

Do you have any advice for current or prospective students?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Take all the core classes–syntax, morphology, phonetics, phonology, pragmatics and semantics–these help you dive deeper in all the other classes!<\/p>\n

What are your hopes\/plans for the future?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I will be working in Boston next year at Amazon as a Data Associate within the Alexa Skills team. This work involves processing language data from Alexa. I also hope to return to school later in my career for either a Masters or PhD!<\/p>\n

While these questions are tailored toward graduating seniors, they also apply to very recent graduates who are still in the process of making the post-graduation transition to the next chapter of their lives.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

If you are senior or recent graduate of the Linguistics Program at UVM, and would like to share information about your undergraduate experience, send your answers to these questions to uvmlinguistics@gmail.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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