Yes. I'm talking to you. I'm talking to the person who doesn't think that this article applies to them, but clicked on it anyways to see what it's all about.

College is hard. Can we all agree on that? It's difficult for each person in a different kind of way. Maybe it's hard to manage your time. Maybe it's hard to figure out how to meet new people. Maybe it's taking a toll on your mental or physical health. Or maybe, with a course load of 12-18 hours, the classes are just harder than what you'd like them to be. For some people, it's all of these things combined. It's a challenging time for everyone.

With that being said, it's important that you embrace and love your major. Who doesn't, right? It's a time where you get to shine and take classes that interest you. Or maybe some of them don't, but you still have to take them because they are on your degree plan.

I like to think of degree plans as custom-made roadmaps just for you. My map looks NOTHING like my roommates. And that's good! I'm an education major while two of the three of my roommates are engineering majors. If my map looked like theirs, I'd end up with an engineering degree, and my brain is not wired to do that career at all. But do you want to know something? That is PERFECTLY OKAY.

I think we tend to have this notion that a clump of majors is "harder" than the other clump of majors.

As an education major, I tend to get a lot of "Oh wow, your major is so easy!" And honestly, that's a little close-minded to think that some majors are "easy" while others are "hard". Typically majors such as Biomedical Sciences, Engineering, Math, and everything on the STEM side of things are looked at to be the "hardest". But do you know what? That's my truth. To me, those classes would be difficult.

However, there are plenty of people out there who understand how to compute numbers, build things, and take care of people medically. And that's PERFECTLY OKAY. The STEM majors may have classes like Organic Chemistry, but an education major also has to tell you how to figure out what RTI to use with a child and how to create environments that make sure all of Maslow's needs are met as well. In my brain, that's simple, but in a BIMS major's brain, that might be difficult.

We're not all wired to know the same information and think the same things are simple. Nobody has the power to know everything about every single major. You just know as much as you can about the content in yours. Which is why every single major is equally challenging.

Either way in each major, it's difficult. But it's important to remember that every major is valid and equally challenging, even if it's not YOUR kind of difficult.

At the end of the day, it's still degrading to tell someone that their major is "easy" and we really should all respect one another and our differences.

These different majors and different skill sets are what make us bonded as we are still broke, tired, and hungry, college students.