Ah, English majors! We are the dreamers, the analysts, and the “grammar Nazis” you read about in Buzzfeed articles. And while we love what we study, there are also moments where the struggle is definitely real. Who better to help explain this than Stars Hollow’s favorite bookworm, Rory Gilmore?
“OH, SO YOU WANT TO BE A TEACHER?”
No, no. Despite the stereotype that every English major is on a conveyor belt toward becoming an educator, and even though being a teacher is rewarding for so many, we are capable of having many other career opportunities. We aren’t a stereotype.
BOOKS ON BOOKS ON BOOKS
You thought reading three books a semester is hard? Do you have four classes which all have the requirement to read four books this semester? Try having to read three in four weeks. For one class. Or having to purchase 8 books in total FOR ONE CLASS. It never ends, people.
“YOU HAVEN’T READ THAT BOOK YET?!”
People often are shocked to discover that some of us have never read some of the “classics”. No, contrary to popular belief, we haven’t read every book in existence, and it doesn’t make us any less of an English major for not having done so.
WHEN PEOPLE WITH OTHER MAJORS ASK YOU TO WRITE THEIR PAPERS FOR THEM.
The accounting majors in the back row are struggling so hard to understand why the author made the curtains red. “I’m just taking it as a requirement”, they say. “I have no idea what any of this means. Help me, help you.” No. Just no.
WHEN CAFFEINE IS AN ABSOLUTE MUST TO REACH THAT WORD LIMIT/PAGE REQUIREMENT
It’s 3:00AM. You most likely procrastinated hardcore on a paper. You are right there. You just need a paragraph more, but you’re basically a zombie. You need that caffeine fix to make it to the finish line because if you don’t get it, you will fall asleep in seconds and probably not wake up for 14 hours.
Yet despite your ride on “the struggle bus”, your heart belongs to words and books, and writing and caffeine… and you wouldn’t have it any other way.