  Once upon a time I went to school and managed to get a degree in linguistics without really knowing half of what I should. For some reason, this morning I woke up with a stupid poem I wrote once while I was supposed to be writing a paper for my syntax class on logical form stuck in my head. So, a syntax haiku: Who does everyone bind, co-index, dominate? Logical form sucks. Other than adhering to the 5-7-5 syllable guide, I'm not sure it could really be called a haiku. Though if you know anything about logical form, then it is just a little bit clever. Actually, I don't remember much about logical form anymore.
Or most of the advanced syntactic or phonological theory. I can probably remember more about what Noam Chomsky thinks about politics than I can about generative grammar. Which isn't much either way. My education has surely been put to excellent use, hasn't it? If anyone out there is considering a degree in Linguistics, here is my advice: Do you want to be a speech/language pathologist? Do you want go into translation? Do you want to be a linguistics professor? Do you want to teach ESL? If you answered no to all of these, maybe linguistics is not for you. If I had it to do again, I'd get a minor in it, and major in something more useful, like philosophy or history. 
