Journalism majors are the best, and it's easy to spot one from a mile away. Here are 30 tell-tale signs that you're a journalism major.
1. You feel the need that everyone you speak to should use proper grammar, and you will have no problem correcting them mid-sentence.
2. You use proper grammar, spelling and punctuation skills when texting, and if you happen to make one mistake you feel the need to send 1,000 texts to correct yourself.
3. You are horrible at all things math. You use a calculator to do simple math equations (12x2=?), you know, just to double check you have the right answer.
4. Your brain has become a human editor. Your brain catches even the slightest comma out of order and it bugs the crap out of you knowing you cannot fix it.
5. You're like a walking news source. You know just about everything and anything that's going on in this world. If one of the Kardashians gets a butt implant, we will know about it firsthand.
6. Your heart practically melts every time you get your hands on the latest AP Style Book Edition. It's like crack for us.
7. Your friends always ask you to edit their papers because they know your skills are just "so good."
8. You have an unhealthy obsession with New York City.
9. You feel guilty for not watching the news/reading the paper in the morning.
10. You practically cringe at the misuse of the words you're, your, their, they're and there.
11. You cannot for the life of you figure out how to write an analytical 10-page essay for your English class, but you would be happy to write an 18-paragraph article.
12. You have news alerts set up on every single electronic device you own.
13. Writer's block is something you know all too well.
14. You follow every news organization, magazine, and reporter known to man on Twitter. When your favorite editor or news anchor re-tweets you, you practically fall over with excitement. (This actually happened to me last week; Ann Shoket, you actually made my day.)
15. You stay up till all hours of the night trying to meet your deadline.
16. But when you see your published work, it just makes you want to scream for joy.
17. And you feel like a famous person every time someone says they read your article.
18. You practically break down when you see an AP or grammar error in one of your published articles.
19. You are undeniably obsessed with anything and everything social media.
20. That car-jacking incident that was on the news at 11 p.m.? Yeah, I heard about it seven hours ago.
21. You will always hold a special place in your heart for newspapers.
22. You practically fangirl every time an award-winning journalist speaks at your school.
23. Your first internship is not all it's glammed up to be. It's really more of a Miranda Priestly situation.
24. It's not actually blood that runs through your veins -- it's coffee.
25. You're so used to writing articles, that you've forgotten how to write actual academic papers.
26. When a professor compliments you on your news writing, it's practically like you just won a Pulitzer prize.
27. You roll your eyes in anger at the kids who just got full-time jobs at CNN, HBO and ABC straight out of college.
28. You don't understand how some people never watch the news. It's like a foreign concept to you.
29. "I can't, I have to write an article" is usually a standard response you tell your friends as to why you can't go out this weekend.
30. You experience the REAL struggle of trying to make an appointment with your journalism advisor.
