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A Mom Came Up With The Perfect Way For Her Daughter To Respond To ‘Your Degree Won’t Keep You Warm At Night’

Erica Kam

Anyone who chooses a field of study that isn’t something “practical” like business or engineering has heard the old, “Your degree won’t keep you warm at night” at some point throughout their time in college. Often poorly disguised as “looking out for you,” this dig is really just a way for people to make you feel bad about choosing a major you genuinely wanted to learn about instead of looking solely at what a future salary might get you.

Twitter user @blahblahSPEAK got a master’s degree in education, and has evidently been on the receiving end of some of those not-so-nice comments. Her mother evidently wasn’t having it and decided to pose the question, “Who says her degree won’t keep her warm at night?” with the perfect gift: A blanket with her diploma printed on it.

 

Frankly, this is straight-up genius. Putting your degree in a frame on the wall? No, we need to take it up a notch.

You worked for years to get this far; if you’re not showing off your degree as a blanket, what’s the point?

 

 

 

One Twitter user even had the idea to start printing degrees on t-shirts, so you can walk around letting people know how hard you’ve worked. Honestly, not a bad idea.

 

And if you want to know how her mom got this incredible gift, @blahblahSPEAK was willing to share.

 

 

So, okay, maybe us “impractical” majors won’t be out here making six-figure salaries, but you can never say we won’t be warm at night again.

Erica Kam is the Life Editor at Her Campus. She oversees the life, career, and news verticals on the site, including academics, experience, high school, money, work, and Her20s coverage. Over her six years at Her Campus, Erica has served in various editorial roles on the national team, including as the previous Culture Editor and as an editorial intern. She has also interned at Bustle Digital Group, where she covered entertainment news for Bustle and Elite Daily. She graduated in 2021 with a bachelor’s degree in English and creative writing from Barnard College, where she was the senior editor of Columbia and Barnard’s Her Campus chapter and a deputy copy editor for The Columbia Spectator. When she's not writing or editing, you can find her dissecting K-pop music videos for easter eggs and rereading Jane Austen novels. She also loves exploring her home, the best city in the world — and if you think that's not NYC, she's willing to fight you on it.