From twenty page research papers to twenty books in a semester, we're some of the most dedicated (and not to mention, greatest) people you'll ever meet.

1. You carry a minimum of three books in your backpack everyday.

2. You can't help but overanalyze every single thing that someone says or does.

3. You've written enough papers to create a novella.

4. You know what a novella is.

4. You know there's a precise difference between a comic book and a graphic novel.

5. Your friends pretend to listen to you while you go on and on (and on) about the last book you just read.

6. You refuse to be friends with anyone who misspells the word "you're" as "your."

7. And anyone who can't tell the difference between they're, their, and there.

8. Your friends and family can't understand your sophisticated vocabulary.

9. You can recite the last line from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby from memory.

10. You can't read a book without thinking about theme, symbolism, and ALL THE METAPHORS.

11. You have a personal library at home (and you secretly cringe when people ask to borrow from your library).

12. Your friends are constantly sending you their essays to look over.

13. You have read a play by either Tennessee Williams or Arthur Miller.

14. You have intellectual conversations with your English major friends about the human condition.

15. And your most-used phrase is probably "the human condition."

16. You don't remember the last time you took a multiple choice exam.

17. You know at least one poem by heart.

18. Jane Austen and Edgar Allan Poe could pass as your friends.

19. Saying the movie was better than the book is practically sacrilegious.

20. Despite what anyone says, you take pride in knowing you're part of a major that will provide you with the kind of intellect, empathy, and understanding that could not be found anywhere else.