Did you grow up with a passion for reading? While other kids your age were playing video games or watching tv, you loved to curl up with a good book? From your love to reading the great American classics to writing your own literary pieces, something drove you to be an English major, and you're finding that it was definitely the right decision! It is time to pull your head out of that book and read the 19 ways you know you're an English major!
1. Forget textbooks. It's all about the paperbacks.
While all your friends are lugging around heavy-duty textbooks, your backpack is stuffed with paperbacks. Dorm room? Nah, it's a mini library! Too bad the school store only buys them back for $.50 or less...
2. Papers
Studying for tests is a thing of the past. Now you have papers. Paper, after paper, after paper. Sometimes there is the easy three pager, but when midterms and finals roll around, its the never-ending 12 page saga.
3. You are always reading.
From Jane Austen to J.K Rowling, you always have a book to read for class.
4. People always assume you want to be an English teacher or a novelist.
5. You're always the go-to storyteller.
Whenever you're with a group of friends and things are getting a little dull, they ask you to tell a story. Ya, let me just pull that story out of my a**.
6. You're pegged as the 'creative' friend.
7. You have a close knit group of friends...
And their names are Gutenberg Project, Sparknotes, and CitationMachine.
8. Your classes are mostly lectures...
discussing books you have merely SparkNoted.
10. You have little to no homework...
but when papers are due they consume your life.
11. You always have a notebook and pen on hand.
You never know when a good story or fodder will pop into your head, so just in case you carry your mini notebook and pen everywhere you go.
12. You most likely have read the same text two or more times.
Hence why you always save those old papers!
13. When finals week rolls around you're straight chilling
because you've had your final paper done for weeks.
14. You despise Geoffrey Chaucer and any other Middle English author whose works somehow survived to the 21st century.
15. Friends are always asking you to proofread their essays.
No matter what the class is your non-english major friends are always flocking to you to critique their papers.
16. Math, never again.
After completing your math gen-ed you never have to look at numbers ever again.
17. You're involved in some type of writing club.
It can be anywhere from your school's newspaper to a website where students post their articles. But no matter what it is, you love it because you most likely can write about any topic you want and are able to find your niche.
18. You question changing your major at least five times a week.
It is known that writers make very little money and finding a job is brutal, and you are reminded of this at least 50 times a week by parents, relatives, friends and professors.
