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Howl:
That is horrible. I agree with Snow, you should report it to someone. Especially if things like that happened before!

TheWinterEmissary:
Alright, I'll look into it.  I don't live in the area and this was a couple of years ago, so he might not be there anymore.  But I'll check into it.

At the time I just didn't think of that, it was my first time going through that process with a vet and I didn't know exactly how it was supposed to work.  I just knew that it was very upsetting and I wanted to leave asap, though again, not until after I was sure that she was gone. 

Vairelome:
I have a B.S. in Biology with a minor in Linguistics and a J.D.  I've run PCRs (for the biologists in the thread :) ) and Noam Chomsky guest-lectured for a day in my Intro to Linguistics class (for Shecky :) ).  I took a fairly broad array of classes for my J.D., but the plurality of them were in Criminal Law.

laura_be:
This is such an interested thread, don't know why I never visited ir before.

I'm not sure how to traslate exactly to the USA system, but I think this is close: I started a college degree in Accounting, I was really good at it, and it was where the money was, but it wasn't really something that made me happy. So I dropped out in the 3rd semester and went to persue the one thing that I have always liked, art.

So now I'm finishing the 4th year of what is a BA in Visual Arts (is kind of general knowledge of a lot of stuff art related but with more emphasis in conceptual art and history) and at the same time starting to work on my disertation. Honestly, I'm starting to panic because it's art you know. Here at least, has always been an under-developed sector. But, it's what I like *shurggs*

Currently, my disertation tutor is trying to hijack (I think that's the word) me to his side of the force, which is specialization in Art theory and critism. I'm considering that, there's only, I don't know, maybe 4 art critics around here and it's really interesting. Plus, I think I might not the artistic type after all, more the one that talks about it type.

I studied some english in elementary school, did a super fast 5 months course when I was in highschool, but most of it I learned it on the internet and actually talking to people with the dictionary at hand. I know a little of Italian, I spent a month there studying it (ok, more sightseeing *wink*). But I really want to keep learning more of that when I have the time, and German too. I'm a grammar freak in my native language, which is Spanish.

Shecky:

--- Quote from: Vairelome on September 26, 2011, 12:50:45 PM ---I have a B.S. in Biology with a minor in Linguistics and a J.D.  I've run PCRs (for the biologists in the thread :) ) and Noam Chomsky guest-lectured for a day in my Intro to Linguistics class (for Shecky :) ).  I took a fairly broad array of classes for my J.D., but the plurality of them were in Criminal Law.

--- End quote ---

Oh, great, a lawyer. *ducks*  ;D

Chomsky... Nutjob. Freaking genius nutjob. There was a professor at South Carolina when I was starting my grad work, a gentleman named Simon Belasco. I never actually took one of his classes, but his reputation lurked around every corner and blocked all the doorways. French (well, Occitan was his true love) and linguistics were his bag. Friend of mine was chatting with him at some point. I hadn't yet had contact with Belasco, so he asked my friend about me, and apparently Belasco was a bit surprised by my, er, eclectic educational "direction" (more like "lack of direction", what with all the minors I had). That friend came to me after Belasco's next class and told me that Belasco had spent the first several minutes of that class talking about ME, saying I was a "new Noam Chomsky" simply because I hadn't limited myself to one specialization. For a second, I honestly didn't know whether I wanted to chase him down and shake his hand or punch him. :D

Nowadays, I'm coming to terms with the "nutjob" part of that.  :o

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