{"id":13894,"date":"2020-03-23T10:11:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T14:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=13894"},"modified":"2020-03-23T17:48:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T21:48:05","slug":"i-thought-i-liked-linguistics-but-had-a-terrible-experience-with-the-first-linguistics-course-i-took-intro-to-sociolinguistics-will-i-have-a-better-time-if-i-try-taking-a-different-course-are-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2020\/03\/23\/i-thought-i-liked-linguistics-but-had-a-terrible-experience-with-the-first-linguistics-course-i-took-intro-to-sociolinguistics-will-i-have-a-better-time-if-i-try-taking-a-different-course-are-the\/","title":{"rendered":"I thought I liked linguistics but had a terrible experience with the first linguistics course I took (Intro to Sociolinguistics).  Will I have a better time if I try taking a different course? Are there any you would recommend?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> It can make a huge difference which instructor and topic you start with, so think about which part didn&#8217;t work for you. Maybe another faculty member&#8217;s approach would suit you better, or maybe a different area of linguistics. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It can make a huge difference which instructor and topic you start with, so think about which part didn&#8217;t work for you. Maybe another faculty member&#8217;s approach would suit you better, or maybe a different area of linguistics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13894"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13916,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13894\/revisions\/13916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}