You can typically find communication students buried under piles of rhetorical analysis essays or in the bathroom, holding a creepy level of eye contact with themselves as they anxiously rehearse a speech in the mirror. If that sounds normal to you, then it's probably because you're a communication major. Here are 19 more ways you know that's true.
1. You dread answering the question, "What's your major?" because your answer is inevitably followed with a cynical, "What on Earth are you going to do with that?"
2. You have to identify yourself by your concentration rather than your general major because there are so many different programs.
3. You find yourself subconsciously identifying forms of rhetoric during speeches.
4. You have no problem talking politics with the political science majors because you have to study political communication. Not to mention, political speeches and debates are frequently used in class as examples of topics being discussed.
5. You talk too much.
6. You find the world is divided into good writers and good public speakers, and those two talents very rarely overlap.
7. Your friends make you help them practice for all of their in class presentations.
8. You're used to hearing people talk about how easy your major is and your eyes hurt from rolling them every time you hear it.
9. You go from studying topics that are extremely fascinating to ones that make you wish you could drop out of school.
10. You're constantly overwhelmed by the sheer amount of career options you have for after college.
11. Choosing a concentration gave you more anxiety than choosing your major did.
12. Your roommates think you need help because they constantly hear you talking to yourself in your bedroom. (It's called preparing for a presentation, OK?)
13. You've had to take and make so many surveys for class that you actually enjoy it now.
14. You groan every time you hear the words "research participation."
15. Depending on your concentration, you always feel like a strange mix between a political science, business, English, psychology and theater major at all times.
16. You have the worst time getting a chance to speak face to face with your professor because so many of your classmates are so chatty.
17. It's nearly impossible to take a class without making friends because of the amount of group work and partner activities.
18. Your friends dread the day that you need them for a focus group.
19. You're very sensitive about your nonverbal communication.
Being a communications major is trying at times, but the rewards far outweigh the mountains of homework.
