5. Your friends ask if you want to consider a Caribbean cruise in the fall and your response is: “Sorry guys, I’ve got ASHA…” (although let’s be honest, they were never going to pull the cruise plan off anyway!)


4. You high-five the person next to you in the computer lab because your pediatric client’s final case summary for the short, 8-week summer quarter is only 12 pages long! FOR THE WIN!
3. The kids you nanny for decide to play “word association” in the car on the way home from camp and you subconsciously start taking an inventory of their semantic networking skills
2. Your initial reaction while watching The Dark Knight Rises is: “Holy mama, Batman is going to have some serious nodules if he keeps that phonotraumatic voice going much longer!” http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6643191/batman-chooses-his-voice (warning for one tiny quick moment of bad language!)

AND…
1. Listening to the following link is actually a legitimate part of studying for your AAC class final: https://faculty.washington.edu/dowden/sphsc540/Notes/TextSpeechSample.wav. I think we can all agree that NO ONE WOULD PICK WENDY!!!!!
Great post Hanna! I already earned my Master’s but I’m still in the same student mindset haha! I always say: once an SLP student, always an SLP student. Although, I no longer write papers for school (#4) and don’t really have time to babysit (#3), I still plan my vacations and getaways according to the conference and continuing ed course schedule and I analyze everyone’s voice and speech.
Good luck!
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Thanks so much Magdalena! I figure I’ll probably always be in this mindset too (for better or worse)!
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