#unlike undergrad i can't double up my masters

[study-and-stitches]

06.08.24

Doing my engineering honours thesis is making me realise how much I really want to do a linguistics research project. Like, I don't qualify to do a lingustics honours anymore but maybe masters? PhD?

The sunk cost fallacy of me spending countless nights and tears doing engineering tho... I genuinely do love when an engo project goes right, I love debugging and playing with coding and firmware. It's just all my engo work experience doesn't deal with that. It's just consulting and research respectively. The consulting was fun only because I bonded so much with my team and the free timtams. The actual work was not. And the research only made me realise that I really really want to do that... but for lingustics. But if I don't take an engo grad role, then what would everything have been for??

If I seriously pursue linguistics academia, I don't think I can get an industry engo job later if I change my mind. But if I pursue engo, I won't have the academic referees to do a research masters.

And then, there's a niggling thought to do a coursework masters in social work.