ALUM REPORT: ELLIOTT CALLAHAN

This just in from Elliott Callahan (B.A. in Linguistics with honors, 2007), who has been in medical school at UCSF:

“I can’t believe it’s been almost 5 years since I applied to medical school! Needless to say, the time has flown by….[and now] I’ve matched for anesthesia residency at UCSF (so I will be staying for another 4 years). It’s a very good program, so I could not be happier. I still fondly remember my time at UCSC, and still try to work linguistics into life whenever I can (although doctors generally fail to appreciate that “vasa previa” is plural, or that aspiration really means the opposite of what they think). However, I did manage to do a brief project transcribing/translating/glossing a story in St’át’imcets, which I was super excited about.”