Liz Evison '10 and other Carleton linguistics students at the University of Chicago for the 2008 Chicago Linguistics Society Conference.
Liz Evison '10 in Goodsell Observatory, presenting a project for a Site-Specific Media class.
Liz Evison '10 studying abroad program in Morocco (front row, 2nd from left), with other Carls and some local students.
Liz Evison '10 at her student job in Presentation, Event, and Production Support (PEPS), doing amazing things with technology.
Liz Evison '10 camping out in a snow cave built on the cold open spaces of the Bald Spot winter term.
The Bald Spot in the fall
."My sophomore year 4th Evans quint" -Liz Evison '10
Cooking dinner with friends in Farm House." -Liz Evison '10
"This fall before classes started, I volunteered with a group of Carleton students to help clean up after flooding in Cedar Rapids, Iowa." -Liz Evison '10
"Our women's rugby team winning a line out." -Liz Evison '10
Liz’s Places
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Liz lives in Watson Hall
Watson Hall is a student residence hall located on the southeast corner of campus. At seven floors high, it is the tallest building on campus. In the back of Watson Hall is the serene Garden of Quiet Listening, voted one of the best Japanese gardens in the country.
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Liz likes Goodsell Observatory
“My favorite place on Carleton's campus is the linguistics lab in Goodsell Observatory. I could keep working on linguistics there in that beautiful old building indefinitely. It has a good couch to nap on and a blackboard that's great for hashing out a syntactic tree of a sentence in an obscure language.”
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Liz likes Goodbye Blue Monday
“In Northfield, my favorite place is Goodbye Blue Monday, a coffee shop that has tasty treats, late hours, and a great atmosphere for either secluding yourself to get good work done or having a relaxing conversation with friends.”
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Liz likes The Arb (Cowling Arboretum)
The Arboretum (known affectionately as "The Arb") consists of 880 acres of prairie and woodland purchased by Carleton president Donald J. Cowling back in the 1920s. Students enjoy its jogging, biking, and skiing trails and biology classes use it for field research.
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Liz Evison '10
- Chicago, IL
- Linguistics Major
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Liz participates in Social Dance Club, CANOE, Books for Africa, Broomball, Women's Rugby, Theater, Karate and Unitarian Universalists.
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Liz likes Goodsell Observatory.My favorite place on Carleton's campus is the linguistics lab in Goodsell Observatory. I could keep working on linguistics there in that beautiful old building indefinitely. It has a good couch to nap on and a blackboard that's great for hashing out a syntactic tree of a sentence in an obscure language.
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Liz majors in Linguistics:The hardest project I've worked on at Carleton has also been the most fun. As part of a course called First Language Acquisition, I wrote a substantial paper and presentation analyzing a published work and outlining a hypothetical experiment that examined the acquisition of lexical semantics in one- to two- year olds. To write this paper, I also ran a pilot study of my experiment with one- to two- year old "acquisitionists" I had been observing for the course as sources for primary data. An in depth analysis that requires juggling many threads, critical thinking, and many, many drafts occupying your mind is difficult, but rewarding.I'm not a senior yet, so I haven't started my comps project, but by the end of this year I will have started to think about it. The linguistics comps consists of doing a lot of extended research, writing a paper, and giving a presentation. I am considering a research topic related to some part of semantics and pragmatics.
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Liz likes Goodbye Blue Monday.In Northfield, my favorite place is Goodbye Blue Monday, a coffee shop that has tasty treats, late hours, and a great atmosphere for either secluding yourself to get good work done or having a relaxing conversation with friends.
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Liz's favorite places include The Arb (Cowling Arboretum).
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Liz's favorite courses include Chemistry 128 - Principles of Environmental Chemistry and Linguistics 275 - First Language Acquisition.
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Liz lives in Watson Hall.
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Liz's hardest course is Economics 110 - Principles of Macroeconomics.
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Q: How would you describe academic life at Carleton?A: Academic life is taken seriously at Carleton, but I appreciate most that we're not competitive about academic achievement. Everyone at Carleton is great at something, your motivation to do better is personal, and professors have a stake in your success. People work hard, but also know when to to have fun.
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Q: Finish the sentence: "You know you’re at Carleton when..."A: You know you're at Carleton when you can smell Malt-o-Meal making Toasty-Os, you see people every Friday checking their mailboxes for flowers, not mail, and you find people who are always open to cross-discipline dialogue and critical discussion.
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Q: What would you tell a prospective student about Carleton?A: The images you see of Carleton with students having class outside on the grass and bikes buried in ice and snow may seem contradictory, but they both actually happen.Other answers to this question
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Q: What's the most important thing you've learned at Carleton OUTSIDE the classroom?A: Try new things. It's simple but true. I considered myself adventurous and curious before I came to Carleton, but here I have discovered better how that mantra relates to the world. Yes, try weird food, but also approach the world with humor and openness so it can change you and do bring up difficult questions that you haven't tackled. I'm still learning.
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Q: Did financial aid influence your college decision?A: Most schools told me that I didn't qualify for financial aid, but Carleton agreed to hire me for work study. The money and experience have been very valuable.
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Q: What would surprise your high school friends about you now?A: They would be surprised by the things I'm doing now that I never would have considered in high school, like playing rugby and doing karate. I love the attitude at Carleton that it couldn't hurt to try new things.
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Q: Did you visit Carleton before applying?A: When I visited Carleton I was able to meet a few faculty members and experience the campus, comparing it to the stories I had heard from my parents, who are alumni. I met friendly students who were willing to point me in the right direction and found a passionately heated discussion while sitting in on a philosophy class. During accepted students weekend, I remember being extremely impressed by the enthusiasm of Carleton students overall, but I was ultimately convinced I could be a Carl when I threw a milk bottle in the trash and a bunch of people asked me to put it in the recycling.
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Q: What other schools did you seriously consider?A: University of Chicago, Bowdoin, Macalester, Washington University in St. Louis
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Q: What are your interests & hobbies?A: Languages, movies, theater, the outdoors, travel, technology, cooking.
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Q: Why did you choose Carleton?A: I chose Carleton because it offers appealing classes with professors who know me, and it allows me to live with a small community of students. The dedication and enthusiasm of professors at the school and the opportunities to form relationships with them are very important to me and I recognized this in Carleton as I was applying. Carleton has class sizes that are small, but large enough to supply the critical mass necessary for a lively discussion. Carleton upholds traditions and produces proud alumni that are eager to share why they think it is a fantastic place. All this, and the snow.
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Q: Any advice for high school students on their college search?A: I believe that the people make the place. Take some time to talk to people at the college. Do these people make you want to further a conversation with them? Also, once you have a few schools in mind where you know you would succeed, it's okay to base your final school decision on little details that might be trivial to other people, but are somehow important to you.
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Q: How would you describe the students at Carleton?A: A Carleton student knows how to be dedicated to something and can take a joke. People are enthusiastic and involved and pursue a lot of interests here. If you talk to a Carleton student long enough, you'll discover that he or she has done something amazing in his or her life. We're all nerdy under one definition of the word. Someone wouldn't fit in well at Carleton who is fiercely opinionated or competitive.
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Q: What campus jobs have you had while at Carleton?A: Freshman year, I was assigned to work at Presentation, Event, and Production Support (PEPS) and I liked it so much that I've been there ever since. We help students in our video editing lab, teach equipment usage, film campus events, and install classroom technologies. It's rewarding to have a job that makes you feel appreciated. PEPS has an easy-going joking atmosphere. I've learned tons on the job and the people I work with are great.
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Q: Have you done any volunteering at Carleton?A: I am a program director for Books for Africa, which collects and processes donated textbooks to be shipped to the African continent. We've recently collected a large number of books from the Carleton campus and the Northfield community, and led programs introducing middle school students to community service. I also enjoy helping with the Red Cross blood drive when it comes to campus every term.
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Q: Have you participated in any off-campus study programs?A: I went on the Middle East Mosaics Seminar, a Carleton-run program in Egypt, Turkey, and Morocco. It was a very inter-disciplinary program, led by professors in economics, French, and ancient Egyptian religions (including our college president, Rob Oden). We studied comparative culture, literature, religion, globalization and Europeanization while constantly on the go seeing and experiencing new things.
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Q: What's been your experience with roommates?A: I'm not sure that I would have ever had the opportunity to know Kristen, my assigned roommate freshman year, if I hadn't been placed with her, so I'm really glad I was. One midterm break weekend, we went on a road trip that couldn't have gotten more Midwestern: stopping at the Field of Dreams and running the bases even though there wasn't any corn yet, and eating a shocking amount of cheese samples in a cheese store in Galena. Without Kristen, I would have never had a hideous orange and olive striped 60s couch in the room freshman year that couldn't help but be the center of interest.
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Q: What Carleton traditions have you participated in? Any favorites?A: I have participated in a bunch of Carleton traditions, and I'm not done yet. I've gone traying down Bell Field and played with Toff, the campus cat, but by far the most exciting was when my friends got the bust of Schiller and I was there to scheme with them at 3:00 a.m. about how to show it next.
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Q: What residence halls or houses have you lived in? Any favorite stories about them?A: Living in Davis or Burton, which are part of the "complex" that is connected to the student center, post office, laundry room, dining hall, and beyond, means that you don't have to venture outside on frigidly cold winter weekends if you don't feel like it.
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Q: What surprised you about Carleton?A: I thought Carleton would feel smaller than it does. Carleton has a relatively small student body, so it surprised me that as a junior, I'm still meeting new people on campus.
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