Journalism, broadcast, advertising, public relations, media relations, and telecommunications. We are the few of the brave souls who choose to deal with people the rest of our lives. We cater to the needs of the public, share content, and create messages to be shared and disseminated to the people, and damn it we are proud of it. Speaking from experiences, communications is a really great field to enter as a college student, because it not only teaches you the technicalities behind these fields, but it provides a lot of life skills that come in handy when dealing with people who are kind of idiots. So of course, it wouldn't be communications without its annoyances and problems. Here are 21 problems that only communications majors will understand:
1. You cannot for the life of you understand why you're not getting above an 80 percent on quizzes in your one-credit grammar class.
2. You've lost track of how many times you've had to tell people in your family what public relations is.
3. And what kind of jobs you can get with a PR degree.
4. "No, it's not really advertising ... It's a little different than marketing ... No, it's not radio..."
5. The internship hunt is a battlefield.
6. We may not have exams during finals week, but the week before is our own personal hell of projects and huge assignments.
7. And these projects and assignments all have the same due dates because why the hell not, right?
8. Getting hired in New York City is likely your life goal.
9. You're thrown into the "easy major" stereotype. Right next to education majors. And you're conflicted between arguing against it, and completely agreeing.
10. The newest edition of the AP Stylebook is legitimately on your Christmas list.
11. You start twitching when people can't use the right "their" "they're" and "there", or "your" and "you're" on Facebook. IT'S NOT THAT HARD, GUYS.
12. Meeting someone who has interned/worked for your dream company makes you hate them, but also want to be them. It's very unsettling.
13. You leave conferences and lectures given by field professionals with anxiety about your future.
14. ... but never as much anxiety as when you're forced to take a math or science class.
15. You obsess over your blog and spend way too much time trying to make it perfect.
16. The same goes for your LinkedIn.
17. Your friends will ask you to write their essays for them, because it looks like you "write a lot."
18. You can work under pressure and under deadlines like it's nobody's business.
19. You probably have more than one Twitter account: a serious professional one and one that's set to private for your debauchery and occasional drunk tweets.
20. This question haunts your dreams: "So, do you have a job lined up yet?"
21. You're in complete denial when people tell you a PR career is nothing like the life Samantha Jones lives.
