Being an English major can be super stressful but awesome at the same time. Here's a quick list about why. The struggle is real.
- You take a minimum of three English classes and your professors don’t understand you cannot read a novel every week for three classes.
- Each professor has a different way on how to write your essays. This makes it super confusing on actually how to write it.
- Figuring out if your thesis is argumentative enough is the hardest decision of your life.
- They always want you to analyze your quote more and more. Like, how much can I analyze one quote? I’m sure the author didn’t mean to add all these hidden meanings to the word “and."
- You own a million highlighters, Post-Its and pencils because without taking notes you cannot read.
- Your Kindle is your best friend. No one gets you like your Kindle. It is always there in your long delays on the F train.
- You can’t read anything without hyper-analyzing the text. Even if you’re reading something simple, you ask yourself, "What does the author mean by this exclamation mark?"
- You get super upset you get when you lose your place in the book and three chapters later you realize you read them already. Basically you could have been done three chapters ago, but hey at least you got a close reading.
- Everyone in your classes speaks in big words to impress your professor but in group discussions you're like, “I didn’t even read, did you?”
- When a professor asks the meaning of a word and no one in class responds. He has to comment, "Wow, English majors don’t know the meaning of…?"
Yes I don’t know the meaning to all the words in the dictionary that is why I am a student and you’re the teacher. - When you rough drafts are basically disgusting when compared to your final paper.
- When you're at a bar with your friends and discuss Wollstonecraft.
- You take criticism on your work very personally.
- It annoys you when people don’t know how to use basic punctuation.
- After reading something you have no idea what the text is about but when you discuss it in class it makes perfect sense.
- Spark Notes is your top favorite saved on your laptop.
- No one knows how much it upsets you when a good book is made into a horrible movie.
- All your friends expect you to write their essays because you’re an English major.
I’m Sorry, I have my own thesis to prove over here. - When people who have accents read Shakespeare out loud it hurts your soul.
- You sleep three hours every night. You basically read for five hours in a day and write for two.
