Click here to read the graduation speech that I gave at the 2007 Berkeley linguistics department ceremony.

Click here for a--albeit silly--poem that I wrote for Sharon Inkelas's graduate phonology class in 2007.

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A Snapshot of the Field: Linguistics

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Listen to these:

• Chick Corea, Leprechaun
• Milt Jackson, Joe Pass, Ray Brown, The Big Three
• Maria Schneider, Concert in a Garden
• Rene Marie, Serene Renegade
• Ella Fitzgerald, The Complete Ella in Berlin
• The Bad Plus, These are the Vistas
• Carmen McRae, The Great American Songbook
• Wayne Shorter, Native Dancer
• Chick Corea and Gary Burton, Crystal Silence

Read these:

• Card, Orson Scott. The Worthing Saga
• Dahl, Roald. Revolting Rhymes
• Dumas, Alexandre. The Count of Monte Cristo
• Hochschild, Adam. King Leopold's Ghost
• Satrapi, Marjane. Chicken with Plums
• Mistry, Rohinton. A Fine Balance

Think about these:

• "If thine enemy wrongs thee, buy each of his children a drum." -Chinese proverb
• "Life consists of the little things; the important matter is to see them largely." -Otto Jesperson
• "We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by."
  -Will Rogers
• "You will never come up against a greater adversary than your own potential." -ST:TNG
• "We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams." -Roald Dahl
• "The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you
  can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it under its roof."
  -Barbara Kingsolver