About

In 2006, I graduated from college with a bachelor’s degree in Linguistics.  I speak Chinese, Japanese, English, and a little bit of German.  On the day that I applied for graduation, I realized that I had mostly wasted my time in college, and now I would be leaving with a degree that would do me no good other than to say, “Hey, I have a college degree!  Hire me!”  That and I can tell you all about fricatives, africates, generative grammar, morphology, and language evolution.

 Although linguistics is interesting, and there are actually job opportunities if you get an advanced degree, it’s not a field that I’m really interested in.  I like learning languages, but you don’t need a degree in Linguistics to do that.  I could have just as easily learned the languages I did in another major.  Linguistics simply allowed me to graduate the fastest.

So, after college, I moved to Las Vegas and applied to go into UNLV’s Electrical Engineering program.  Now, having a degree in the humanities, I was prepared to have to take all of the engineering related electives like physics, chemistry, etc.  However, I was told by UNLV that I would have to take all of their general education electives that didn’t have direct transfer credit from my other degree as well. 

So, there I was.  I had a degree in Linguistics.  I had taken advanced 300 level college writing and literature classes.  I had written a senior thesis for graduation.  And now I was being told that I couldn’t get a degree in Electrical Engineering if I didn’t take classes like English 102 and a Nevada Constitution class.  Moreover, planning out a timeline for how long it would take me to finish all this, adding those classes would have added an extra 3 semesters to the time it would have taken me to graduate.  That’s an extra year and a half, not to mention all the extra tuition.

So, my educational aspirations were put on hold and I started working in Sin City.  And ever since then, I’ve been trying to figure out a way to get out of this place and get into a position where I can go to a decent school and get a decent education while not racking up student loans.

In the mean time, I got married, and in December 2007, we had our first child, a baby girl.

Now I am taking my education into my own hands.  Thanks to the internet, self-learning has become easier than ever before.  I am currently working on learning as much as I can in various fields such as mathematics, physics, and computers.  I still hope to go back to school one of these days, but in the mean time, I’m not going to make any excuses for my lack of knowledge.