O Brave New World...

God, I'd be fascinated by that. If Northwestern had had minors, mine would have been linguistics, because I took a lot of courses in it, from "Applied Linguistics", which just meant teaching foreign language, and was a great class, some of whose precepts I still use, to Psycholinguistics, which is as close to neurolinguistics as they got. That class drove me crazy -- the ideas were fascinating, but the prof was abysmally boring, and I figured out that I could quite easily pass it just by reading the textbook. So I stopped attending lectures. A shame. The structural linguistics class was amazing; sort of Chomsky and beyond. I loved transformational grammar, though I don't know whether its brilliance accurately depicts this "grammar center" or not. Tell us all more, via your LJ.