brandonsimpson

If I get accepted, I'll be the first in my family to try to pursue a Master's (and eventually/hopefully a Ph.D.). The most common question I get is how I'm going to pay for it. This is usually from my mother. It doesn't occur to her, and others, that grad students are typically paid a stipend. Then there's always the explanation I have to give about linguistics. "Oh, you want to be a translator?" I just give up and say I'm going for an MA in Spanish, which is sort of true. I applied to an MA program in Hispanic Linguistics.

I applied to a MA program in hispanic linguistics at Indiana University in April 2012. I currently have a job teaching high school Spanish (which I'm not terribly fond of), and this wait is driving me insane. I need to know if I'm accepted or not so I can make plans for the following year. I feel good about chances of getting in. I had a French professor in undergrad who practically begged me to go into linguistics, and she also wrote me a LOR. I don't have a question really; I just wanted to see who else is anxious about the wait.