{"id":139,"date":"2019-05-10T13:22:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T17:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ling\/?p=139"},"modified":"2019-05-10T13:22:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T17:22:27","slug":"senior-spotlight-meghan-mcclure-class-of-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ling\/2019\/05\/10\/senior-spotlight-meghan-mcclure-class-of-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Spotlight: Meghan McClure, Class of 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

I came to UVM completely undecided and had absolutely no idea what to major in. I was jumping around classes until I took Linguistic Diversity in the US as a D1 and was introduced to Linguistics. I thought it was super cool and at that point it was like, the last week to declare a major so I just chose Linguistics. A random choice but it was definitely one of the best choices of my college career. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

I really loved phonetics. I appreciated how it was more on the sciency side of things. I really liked being able to pick out differences in speech – now my party trick is to test people for the cot\/caught merger and then talk about dialectal differences. I also really like semantics. It absolutely kicked my butt but once I put in all my effort (I had to stop doing my readings for my french lit class for semantics) it made a lot of sense and it was really interesting to learn to compute sentences and such. Also now I can scare people with lambda notation so that\u2019s always fun. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Learn the full IPA. It’s cool. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

I never really had any plans on using my college major in my direct future after college. I\u2019m moving home to teach and train at a circus company and then applying to contemporary circus schools with hopes to get (more) into (higher level) performing. But once my body breaks\/gives out I think I\u2019ll probably start doing something linguistics-related. No idea what though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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