Reaching Full Potential In College

     Taking a Linguistics Course, whether it is done online through Granite State College or in a face to face class at the University of New Hampshire campus in Durham, New Hampshire can be a daunting task.

     Therefore, as a college student at eighteen years old or fifty years old, one tip I offer is to stay connected to or perhaps revisit the rules you previously learned in developing the necessary skill of rote memorization.

     I am taking Linguistics 405.2 as the final course of my Language Arts Degree which might have been a more significant task at the beginning of my program because of how the course breaks the English language down to morphic units of words and phrases. Now that I have completed every single other language writing requirement, it seems I should have taken Linguistics in a different order at the beginning of my course work.

     The online Linguistics course offered through Granite State College is taken by those enthusiastic techno-geniuses from all over the world.  One of the students that signed up for this course was enrolled from England. So, from where ever you may be, there is a good opportunity to study this course online with interesting folks from away.

     Although I was fascinated by the distance between my local address and the students from away, I am not a techno-genius.  Because Linguistics is a course requirement for the success of my degree, I dropped the online course before I was in too far over my head... after awhile... you can tell when a course is going to surpass the label of challenging and meet up with the label of impossibility which the online Linguistics course did for me.

     My face to face Linguistics course at UNH is equally as challenging as far as I am concerned.  The biggest difference about taking the face to face class is definitely in the ongoing classroom discussion that occurs bi-weekly for an hour.

     Still, Linguistics covers a wide range of information that I have never been exposed to before.  Certainly, I should have made a point to find out more about the course before signing up.  The good news is that I love the English Language.  I love to read and write. And so, it is my most earnest hope that if I continue to do the reading, sit for many hours reconstructing the word and phrase diagrams involved in the course, and revisit the rote memorization model (even though I don't really believe in this method of learning), eventually the concepts and purpose of Linguistics will all come together and I will successfully complete the course.  You can too!