1. Everyone’s first response after you tell them your major: “Oh so you want to be a teacher?”

MAYBE I DO. HOWEVER, I COULD ACCOMPLISH A PLETHORA OF OTHER THINGS TOO IF I SO WISH!

2. Your major has been frowned upon because, "It's not a practical major. It's a dead-end road."

Oh you're so keen of my security and well-being! Aka, my annual salary.

3. We’re the grammar trolls you’re rolling your eyes at on the Internet.

“Their is possessive, there is location, and they’re is a group.”

4. You’re one of the few, if not only one, of your friends who has an actual bookshelf filled with actual books that you actually enjoy reading.

5. Math isn’t exactly your forte. But you’ve learned to accept that.

I’m an English major, ~you~ do the math. *ba-dum-tshh*

6. You’ve written some of your best work while being half awake, drooling, and droopy-eyed at 2am.

7. Sometimes you choose to stay in and finish a book–instead of going out with your friends.

8. The worst downside of college is that you lose all free time to indulge in the books you want to read for your own liking.

9. Because you’re always reading, and reading, and reading, and reading, and rea-

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10. And writing, and writing, and writing, and writing, and wri-

(You get the point.)

11. Because of the fact that you’re constantly “analyzing and interpreting” material in class, you can’t help but analyze and interpret everything else around you.

Getting to the Truth of things – with a capital T.

12. Your back and shoulders are in constant pain from the cruelty of carrying around your backpack all day.

13. You make your friends think that it’s an absolute job for you to edit their papers, but you secretly love doing it.

You’re welcome.

14. We’re not ALWAYS those kids in the corner of the library’s quiet side with our noses in a book...but that does sound like a pretty ideal place to be.