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Stop Assuming Other Majors Are Easy

Each major is challenging in its own way.

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Stop Assuming Other Majors Are Easy
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If you’ve been on Twitter in the last two months you may have witnessed this:

And, as you can imagine, Olivia [throwin’] Shade received a lot of backlash for her seemingly thoughtless tweet. And in my humble opinion, she should have. Throughout my four years of college, I’ve met many met people with many different majors and I can tell you they are all difficult in their own way.

Don’t be condescending towards people with different majors.

Exams for an education major may be less rigorous than for chemistry majors but that doesn’t mean they aren’t facing just as many struggles as every other student on campus.

First of all, I can’t even fathom having to show up in a classroom full of obnoxious, snotty, mouth-breathing children every day. AND, it’s not like a teacher’s only responsibility is to make sure that said children don’t color the walls and eat each other’s boogers.

They are actually responsible for the maturation and betterment of these children’s minds. If I were a teacher, I would lose my own mind.

Before you bash an ed major, think about how you got to where you are now. If it weren’t for your teachers, you wouldn’t have made it. If we didn’t have primary or secondary education, we wouldn’t have higher education and no one would even be able to pursue a degree at all!

Different majors get all kinds of crap. Family Science majors are called housewives. Kinesiology students are health nuts. Business majors are "want to be" future Jordan Belfort's. Agriculture majors are all just farmers. Political Science majors are pretentious future law school dropouts. Communications majors are partiers that couldn’t make it doing something else. The list goes on and it’s honestly all just junk. The stereotypes of college majors are disproved every day yet people still question their peers’ career path decisions.

What same majors lack in heavy academic coursework, they make up for it in other requirements. Ed majors have to spend a certain amount of semesters in schools interacting with kids. Journalism majors have to go out, interact with and interview people they don’t know to write story after story with quick turnarounds and strict deadlines.

Hospitality management majors are required to have a multitude of internships under their belt to graduate. Athletic training students have the same hectic schedule as the team they are training with.

For many majors, finding a job is about so much more than GPA. As a student in mass communications, I can tell you first hand that most of my professors and mentors agree that experience is far more valuable than class.

And of course, STEM majors receive some flak as well. Many are told or questioned that they chose their major just for the money. Maybe they did, maybe they didn’t but believe it or not there are very intelligent peers among you that are genuinely passionate about circuit boards and electrical wiring.

So, the point here is that you should really back off with the career choice hate and let your friends and classmates do their thing and shoot their shot. Agreed?
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