1. You dread the question "What's your major?" because you know it'll result in a lecture about how you "can't do anything with a history degree."
Let's face it, we all have that drunk uncle at Thanksgiving who will ask what we're studying and then reply "ha, have fun being unemployed!"
Yup, got it. Thanks.
2. The struggle of passing out from exhaustion before you're finished even half of your assigned readings.
I mean, I'm just as interested in the First Continental Congress as the next guy, but 500 pages before Monday is a little much.
3. All of your friends are afraid to face off against you in trivia.
There are very few instances in which it's useful to know when exactly the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo was signed. This is one of them.
4. Your Netflix queue is full of documentaries.
Sorry Blair and Serena, but a docuseries about the Cold War is way more exciting than an episode of Gossip Girl.
5. And your bookshelf is full of biographies and non-fiction books.
Seriously, why would you read The Hunger Games when you can read 1776 by David McCullough?
6. JStor is quite literally your best friend.
Love you forever, bae.
7. You're not a fan of historical films because you get too hung up on the historical inaccuracies.
Did anyone else notice that scene in The Patriot when Mel Gibson hands a store clerk a five dollar bill with Abraham Lincoln's face on it, even though the movie takes place during the American Revolution?
No? Just me? Okay.
8. The words "annotated bibliography" strike fear into your heart.
Why? Just why?
9. You have a special affinity for Hamilton.
Finally, people know Alexander Hamilton as more than just the guy on the $10 bill!
10. You might be drowning in primary source documents, spending all your free time reading, and at a serious disadvantage in the job market, but you wouldn't have it any other way.
