10 Years After

Thousand Words

I stopped by after CWL to chat with the philosophy professor I had the correspondence with last week. I tried to stop by earlier today, but his office hours are in the afternoon and are during my CWL. So, after CWL I rushed over to his office. His door was closed and he was talking to a student (I think a GA for one of his classes). When I knocked he told me to come in. I introduced myself and stated that I was the student that had inquired about the syllabus for the Philosophy of Linguistics. I was met with a blank stare from him.

Then he corrected me. "Oh, Philosophy of Language."

He asked me to wait while he finished up his conference with the student already present. I waited patiently in the Hall. Then, after that student left, he asked me to come in and reintroduce myself. We spoke briefly about my interests. I think he expected me to be much more conversational, but I have to say that I was overwhelmed by him. I managed to answer all of his questions with as much brevity as possible. He asked me about the classes I was taking this semester while he looked for, and printed, the syllabus from the class.

He then mentioned speaking with Dr Gross so that the Philosophy of Language class might be offered (more) regularly for English majors with an emphasis in linguistics can take it to supplement their theoretical linguistics.

The thing basically ended in a disater with him wishing me well with my studies.