Had an interview with a super friendly guy yesterday. Super friendly. He was really interested in applied linguistics. I'm kinda meh on applied ling, I think most of it is crap, but the world disagrees with me an it seems to be growing. It was funny/strange though. Topic of grad school came up, I said I'm not really thinking about it, its probably too expensive/not realistic for me. He was kind of adamant that I ought to give it a shot. He even sent me a email today about a program I ought to look into.
At the time of course I was just thinking "guh some old guy trying to push the young one to follow a dream because they cant anymore." and then he just tells me, almost like hes reading my mind, he wishes he could have done something like ling in school, he finds it so interesting, he reads ling papers it interests him so much. An now I'm sitting here thinking about how this guy coulda been me. And I coulda been him. I regret almost every day now not getting a BS, getting something practical. And here's this scientist telling me he wishes he hadnt been a successful scientist and instead chased a random interest. Would I be happier if I had done engineering or CS or something? Actually I bet I'd be way unhappier, and I'd prbly wish I had done something like ling. I'm prbly just a complainer.
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