12 Signs You Recently Graduated With A Liberal Arts Degree
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12 Signs You Recently Graduated With A Liberal Arts Degree

Every college graduate has their struggles, but yours are unique to a liberal arts education.

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12 Signs You Recently Graduated With A Liberal Arts Degree
Danville Area Community College

Do you feel like popular stereotypes about college students don’t apply to you? Do you consider yourself to be pretty cultured and knowledgeable, but completely misunderstood? Do you dream about solving the world’s biggest problems? If yes, you might have a liberal arts degree. Here are 12 more signs that you graduated with a liberal arts education:

1. You’re unemployed.

You went to school with plans to inspire the world around you, only to find out that nobody cares. Nevertheless, you still read philosophy and scholarly articles on your lunch break at Walmart.


2. You’re used to adults silently judging you.

You’ve become quite accustomed to the “look.” Every time your parents’ friends ask what you studied in college and you respond with a typical liberal arts major, their mouth becomes a geometrically straight line, their eyes squint, and a grunting noise comes from the back of their throat.


3. You cringe when people ask how you’re planning to use your degree.

Even though your first thought is about changing the world, you usually mumble something about taking a gap year…


4. You’re $80,000 in debt.

You can’t even begin to sympathize with all the engineering majors who complain about paying off student loans because you make less than $30,000 a year. That means it’ll take you….wait…you haven’t taken a math class since College Algebra…well, it’ll take a long time to pay it all off.


5. You know so much useless information.

Unfortunately, your manager doesn’t care about Foucauldian social constructivism.


6. Your friends think you’re incredibly pretentious.

It’s not that you think you’re better than them. You just know more than them…. Wait…


7. Your old professors are now friends with you on Facebook.

Because in the liberal arts, there’s comradery and you now make more working at McDonald’s than your professors ever did teaching you about gender performativity.


8. You need an Master's degree to do anything with your major.

“You mean I have to go to school for at least another two years?!”

9. Your parents still don’t really know what you studied, and you’re not completely sure yourself.

Even though you’ve read more books in four years than most people read in their entire lives, you realize that you’ve only touched the surface of a topic that is totally and completely beyond your understanding.


10. Your resume consists of fabulous awards and honors that employers could care less about.

It’s not that you hit your peak in college, it’s just that nobody will ever appreciate the really cool stuff you did back then.


11. Your degree transcript is filled with more general education classes and introductory courses than classes in your actual major.

Because your History degree required you to take six Psychology classes.

12. You spend too much time contemplating life and society.

Even though your degree is practically worthless and your parents’ friends don’t understand your career choices, your critical thinking skills and genuine interest in humanity and society has made you into a caring and well-rounded person!

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