12 Stages of Being an English Major Told By New Girl
Because it's a lot different than Book club meetings and reading Shakespeare (which can actually be quite hard)
- When you became an English Major because you thought you'd get to read all day
- And then you realize it's mainly papers and words you never knew existed
- Then you take the first Adv. Comp class and realize you know nothing about the English language aka what a gerund phrase is and the fact everything you learned in high school is wrong
- When you only want to read the books and stories but not write essays on them
- At the end of the semester you want to cry because it’s paper after paper after paper
- When you promise yourself you will never write another paper, no matter what grade you will get and then you get assigned another paper
- When you spend all your time reading and writing your next paper
- When your friends think they understand your workload because they have a 5 page paper due in four days and you have four 5-page papers due all in one week
- When your friends ask you to revise their papers.
- When you finally finish all four 5-page papers AND have time to revise them
- When you can actually write sentences that have anaphoras, isocolons, chiasmus', polyptotons, and antimetaboles in them
- Knowing that you wouldn’t ever want to be anything else because let’s be honest, being an English major is the best
