So, you’re an English major and you go to UCSB?
Now we all know there are some things that English majors everywhere can relate to: Like how you’re the one your friends always turn to for spelling and grammar advice, or when people judgmentally ask you what you’re going to do with your degree, and follow up with the assumtion, “So you want to be a teacher?” But I digress.
Here are some fun and all too true things that only you and your fellow UCSB English majors will understand:
1. Close-reading skills are so ingrained into you, that you perform a close-reading of the emoji’s in all of the texts you receive.
2. You know who Nick and Brian are and have received at least four emails from them per day on a consistent basis.
3. You sometimes do your reading for class while lying out at the beach (or various other outdoor locations).
4. Your only knowledge of campus is the radius around the Library, Girvetz, the Arbor, and South Hall (and sometimes Phelps). You may be vaguely familiar with the surrounding areas, but basically the whole side of campus along Lagoon Road is unknown territory.
5. And within those buildings you somehow always have class in the exact same classrooms (Girvetz 1004, 1119, 2119; SH 1415, 2636; Phelps 2516).
6. You have seen a wetsuit and surfboard laying out to dry on the 4th floor balcony of South Hall
7. You know where “Gnome Studies” is located, even if the sign is no longer on the door.
8. You have to pull an all-nighter in the library for a paper that’s due the next morning but it’s all okay because you have this view: