Fun fact: even though I go to a pretty awesome art school, the high school I went to was a tiny science academy that nobody knew existed. The best part about my high school was, even though it was a STEM focused school, they encouraged you to pursue any major or work in any field you wanted to. They even helped me find and apply to SFUAD. I wish I could say I experienced this awesome support outside of my school, but sadly I didn’t. One of the most annoying things I get bugged about, mostly from my fellow college students (come on, guys), is the idea that, because I go to an art school and want to major in film, I have it easy. That my major is easy and because some of us decided to act, make films or write, we picked that easy way to a degree, and that’s kinda messed up.
There’s no such thing as an easy degree in any field. It think it's kind of unfair that some degrees get the short end of the stick. Like I said, I mostly get this from my fellow college students in other fields. Yes it’s true, I probably don’t spend as much time the library studying as people in other majors. But I can guarantee I spent just as many hours in an editing lab trying make sure the film I’m making looks perfect, or trying to balance a budget that I already went way over on. I have friends who are acting majors that spend all week at rehearsal only to come around midnight to work on essays or to go over their lines again and again.
The point I’m trying to make here is we all work hard and try to be the best in our majors. I’m not saying we have it harder, because that’s stupid. The very idea of trying to compare majors and their workloads is impossible. Plus, you just sound like a jerk when you try to. We all worked hard to get where we are and I’m sure all of us work to try and be the best in our respective fields. No one has it easy here. You’d think that this generation of college students that have been labeled as lazy and unproductive would want to band together and show world that we plan on becoming a formidable workforce on all fronts. Not turn on each and squabble over who has it the worst. That’s what they expect us to do! Come on guys, we’re better than that.
We should be happy that we all don’t just want the "get a degree get a job and work 'til you die" routine. Literally every one of my friends I know that are in college picked their major because they had some kind of passion behind it. They picked them because they wanted to do what they loved. They didn’t care about the statistics telling them how impossible, how crowded, how hard it is to find job in the field. They picked because they wanted to chase a dream they had. So, can we please stop trying squabble over who has it worse and just be happy that we’re all doing what we love?
