Transfer Essay w/o Experience: Help Needed

spinnyspeaker
Sat, 27 Oct 2012 13:55:46 +0000

Hey all,

I’ve been struggling with what to write for the UC transfer essay prompt. It says to discuss how I became interested in the field (easy enough) but then says to mention experience in the field. I don’t have any experience (volunteer, work, student orgs, nada) in my field (Linguistics).

I want to study Linguistics because I find it fascinating - I love looking at semantics and the origins of words and I’m very interested in voice/speech technology - and I see a lot of options down the road that would open up with a Linguistics degree, but aside from two classes on language origins in a cultural geography course and playing with Siri I don’t really have experience. I’m sure I could stretch the section on my interest in Linguistics but is that what they want?

Thanks for the help!