So you thought you would go the easy route in college. That has to be the reason why you chose to major in some form of Communication Studies. That definitely has to be it! No one really just decides one morning when they wake up, saying "I think I'm going to be a Communications major!" Yeah, no! No one.Therefore, why major in something that has no real value for your future in the real world since it is so easy? How useful is a Communications major really going to be?
Well let me tell you that I used to think that Communications was the absolute easiest major out there. I mean I was a Biology major and I took all of those hard courses like Organic Chemistry, Physics, and Biochemistry. And, let me tell you, those classes are the definition of hard! Thus, when someone told me that they were a Communications major, I immediately judged them. I gave that look. But now I understand.
I changed my major because I no longer was Pre-Med and I switched to Pre-Law. There was no need for me to take super hard classes and stress myself out when I don't even need them for law school. Why go through the pain? Therefore, I switched to a field that would give me more insight into strategically communicating for crisis management... in other words, what law school is basically all about.
Communications is not like math or science; it's more like common sense. It opens your mind. We learn to change the world's thinking. WE look at how underlying messages in commercials and ads affect the populations they are shown to and how gender and sexual orientation are really not a matter of nature at all. And sure, it is not the same thing as trying to build a computer or figuring out how the human body reacts to certain drugs, but it does open your mind in extremely difficult ways. I mean, taking a class about gender and studying how it affects our diplomacy in the political world but also understanding gender and public policy as they are shown in the media is quite difficult to wrap your brain around. We Communications majors are just as smart as those majoring in math or science, but in our own unique way. We have essays and papers due every day on things that range from interesting topics to nonsense. It might not be labs or reports, but ten-page essays about hegemonic power structures are equally hard.
People might be learning about carbon ring structures and are, as a result, bored to death. These people will tell you how they hate their classes and that they just play on their phones the entire time. But in the Communications field, we are learning about things that are useful for our future career as well as our day-to-day lives. And when we learn the types of things that we are generally interested in, our lives become so much easier. WE begin to love life, like literally! There are so many options within Communications that we can basically find a job in any field due to the fact that it is such a broad discipline. If for some reason we find ourselves hating our job and looking at our phone all day (for non-work-related purposes), we can just find a new one and the work could be completely different.
Besides, when you love life as much as I do, you become such a people person. Many communication majors are extroverts! And meeting new people with new ideas can open up your mind to a whole new world! (Start the Aladdin music now!) Communications majors basically learn about things like how to be an awesome person, academically and professionally. So really, who wouldn't want to be a COMM major?
Plus, if you are a Communications major, you will be in the ranks with Tim Allen, Brad Pitt, Matthew McConaughey (ahh swoon!), Denzel Washington, Oprah, Carrie Underwood, and Halle Berry. So it's definitely a smart move to become a Communications major! Maybe you should think twice before you give me that look and judge me, kid! We COMM majors are a force to reckoned with nowadays! #CommMajorsUnite
