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You Know You're a Speech Pathology Major When...

12 Things That Happen When You Are a Speech Pathology Major

Molly Ellen McVey

Apr 19, 2016

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You Know You're a Speech Pathology Major When...

1. Learning the IPA alphabet is like learning a second language

2. Speaking of phonetics, you can't study it in the library without people glaring at you

3. You aren't 100 percent sure why you need to learn about spectrograms, or what exactly they are

4. Each time you hear someone speak, you are secretly looking out for speech or language disorders they may have

5. No one has any idea what a speech pathologist does, and if they think they do they are usually wrong

No I am not studying to be a speech coach or a drama teacher, that doesn't make any sense.

6. Each time you get a sore throat you are paralyzed with fear

It could be laryngitis, vocal fold thickening, vocal polyps, contact ulcers, or vocal nodules! Good thing you know how to treat them...

7. When people think that speech, language, and communication are the same thing

They are so wrong its not even funny.

8. Your guilty pleasure movie is "The King's Speech"

9. Thinking about grad school fills you with all kinds of emotions

From excitement about finally having your own patients and learning how to help people, to paralyzing fear about actually getting into the program you want (seriously though, what is with the low acceptance rates?).

10. You know like four things about the brain and you feel like you're Derek Shepherd

I know the basics of a TBI and where the Wernicke's and Broca's Area in the brain are located. Doesn't that make me a brain surgeon?

11. You spend your spare time looking up speech pathology memes

Some of them are gold.

12. When you talk about why you want to be a speech therapist, you start to get emotional

It's something about the idea of truly making a difference in someone's life that makes you really emotional.

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You Know You're a Speech Pathology Major When...

12 Things That Happen When You Are a Speech Pathology Major

1. Learning the IPA alphabet is like learning a second language

2. Speaking of phonetics, you can't study it in the library without people glaring at you

3. You aren't 100 percent sure why you need to learn about spectrograms, or what exactly they are

4. Each time you hear someone speak, you are secretly looking out for speech or language disorders they may have

5. No one has any idea what a speech pathologist does, and if they think they do they are usually wrong

6. Each time you get a sore throat you are paralyzed with fear

7. When people think that speech, language, and communication are the same thing

8. Your guilty pleasure movie is "The King's Speech"

9. Thinking about grad school fills you with all kinds of emotions

10. You know like four things about the brain and you feel like you're Derek Shepherd

11. You spend your spare time looking up speech pathology memes

12. When you talk about why you want to be a speech therapist, you start to get emotional

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1. When course schedules are released and you have a conflict between two required classes.

2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

When your capability of "adulting" is put to the test

Nobody deserves to be living in poverty.

"Nobody living in one of the most influential nations in the world should be worried about making ends meet."

What is the current minimum wage at the federal level?

What are the benefits of raising the minimum wage?

What are the states that have set a $15/hour minimum wage?

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Because who understands your bitterness better than April?

1. When you have to provide an "interesting fact" for your first day ice-breaker.

2. When your professor is babbling on and on in his lecture.

3. When you edit your friend's paper and they get an A.

4. When it's 2 AM and you remember you have a test tomorrow.

5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

6. ...but then you get the test back and somehow passed.

7. When you've been up for 12 hours straight writing a paper.

8. And then you manage to stay awake in class the next day.

9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

11. And your group-mates are trying to chat about life instead of the assignment.

12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

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