1. Explaining what our major is
It always happens. When someone ask you what your major is and then have the follow-up question of "what even is that?".
2. Self-diagnosing yourself
Even the simplest disfluency in your speech and all of sudden you have convinced yourself that you have a stutter. Or maybe you think you aren't hearing that well today, let's pray it's not a 60dB hearing loss.
3. Vowel Quadrilaterals
Diphthongs, high/low, tense/back vowels, enough said.
4. Sounding out words in front of people.
No, no, no I am not talking to myself. I am checking to see if it's a bilabial stop and if it voiced or voiceless.
5. B's are essentially D's
OMG! AN 85?? I might as well drop out now.
6. NSSHLA
Let me just fit in those meetings in-between studying for my audiology exam and analyzing that language sample, lucky me.
7. Anatomy
There is nothing I enjoy more than studying your pars tens in your tympanic membrane or remembering your origin and insertion point of the obiscularis Doris.
8. The terror of Grad School
I really can't even talk about this one.
9. GRE's
Oh you thought your summer was going to be fun and free? It is time to study for you GRE's.
10. Trying to listen to your friend talk, but instead analyzing their speech.
I'll admit it, I've looked for a lisp or clutter of speech in my friends before. Apparently this is my idea of "fun".
11. Enjoying an abnormal endoscopy
So thats what nodules look like? Awesome.
12. Owning your own otoscope.
Ahhh... nothing like a good otoscopic examination.