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<p><<<span>I switched to Linguistics, with a minor in Women's Studies. The latter was a minor only because it wasn't available as a major. Had I stayed for my senior year, my thesis was going to be on the anthropology of women and language.>><br /><br />You know you caught my eye with that one. Fascinating stuff.</span></p>
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<p>On 2019/07/24 10:40, Esther Schindler via Ipg-smz wrote:</p>
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0"><!-- html ignored --><!-- head ignored --><!-- meta ignored -->On Jul 23, 2019, at 3:45 PM, Phil Shapiro via Ipg-smz <<a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a>> wrote:<br />
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<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> Just curious, what class or major did you transfer out of?</span><br />
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<div>When I was accepted at Brandeis, I was asked to provide a major, so that I could be assigned the right advisor. </div>
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<div>I didn't really know what I wanted, so I contemplated my two best subjects in high school: programming and English. I told my mother, "I don't know whether to write down 'computer science' or 'English.'"</div>
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<div>"Well," mom said, "You could always write books about computers!"</div>
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<div>I responded with the plaintive whine of a 17-year-old, "Mothhhhhhhher!"</div>
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<div>But neither of those majors lasted a semester. I discovered that an English major was expected to read boring 18th century fiction and to re-do all the grammar courses I'd already aced. And — given that I already thought I knew how to program — I cut classes for programming so much that I was utterly lost. I got a C on the final (and didn't even deserve that). I'd never gotten a C before and I freaked out. I didn't come back to programming for five years.</div>
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<div>I switched to Linguistics, with a minor in Women's Studies. The latter was a minor only because it wasn't available as a major. Had I stayed for my senior year, my thesis was going to be on the anthropology of women and language.</div>
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<div>...So now I write about computers.</div>
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