I've been an English major since ever and I decently like it but I'm sort of sick of the pretentious bullshit that comes with it. As well as I'm more interesting in Cultural stuff, I took like a gabajillion Anthropology classes but it's not necessarily what I want to do per se.
I do want to do music and I do want to do languages. I've taken a year of Japanese and half a year of Korean and I want to keep going. So I've thought of just doing East Asian Studies, or something. But the schools that HAVE Korean as an option are like USC and UCLA. :/ Basically never going to happen! AHHHH I HATE THIS ALL. :((
I'm not entirely sure? I've been wanting to be a translator for awhile. I was contemplating doing stuff for the U.N but it was mostly a backup to the fact that I really want to perform on stage.
I just feel like if I do English than I can do publishing or something, and just sit down and read books all day. It would be wonderful and I know I would enjoy it. But I can't do 9-5 jobs. I'm just not made for that sort of existence. But it would be a source of income; it's why I want to do it.
ugh I am in the same boat with you. Except I'm a business school major and I deal with cocky douchebags. I think it'd be fun to do societal research, write grants for a government body to do research.
I am an English major, too, and I'm not sure if this is what you are getting it, but sometimes I really feel like I am inadequate. I really love English, but there are times when I feel like if I were having a conversation with other English major students about books and authors, I wouldn't be able to contribute as much as I should be able to for a college sophomore.
Or maybe I'm just being overly concerned and self-critical. I don't know.
That happens a lot with me as well. I sometimes feel like I'm not eloquent enough to be an English Major and that those I talk to who are, seem to surpass me in a lot of ways. Bu the core factor is that I love to read and I love to write. So the combination simply leads me to English.
I think in your situation you just shouldn't compare yourself to others (which isn't much because that's what I do too) but some people are different when it comes to being speaking out and there isn't a ~standard~ of what you should contribute to a class or to a subject. If you something to say or you don't, it doesn't make it you less of an English major. God knows, that I don't speak well enough for someone who has a lot to say.
oh god some english majors seriously suck. i find myself easily annoyed with the ones who are super into postmodernism and think that david foster wallace is some kind of goddamn genius when really infinte jest is just one giant tome of intellectual masturbation.
i think the way i've always seen it is that i just enjoy reading and discussing texts. i'm not much of an academic, lol. the really academic types, the ones who talk in lit jargon all the time, they really set me off.
i wish i'd been able to do more languages in college, too, but my major ate up a lot of my time. :/
Exactly. I mean I can't say that I've read David Foster Wallace so I don't have an opinion on him but for me it's when my English teacher thought 'Tony Morrison' was the shit but I just think that she's not that great of a writer and I can't stand her or her writing. :/
Agreed. I enjoy reading and writing and talking about the books but I swear sitting in my American lit class was murder. It was just torture having to sit with people and doing the same thing EVER single class and 3hrs of the SAME shit over and over. Pretentious assholes and the league of them sitting in a 45 seat class. It really made me re-think what I wanted to do.
I'm trying to find a college that can do both. It's not coming up as easy tbh.
I've been an English major since ever and I decently like it but I'm sort of sick of the pretentious bullshit that comes with it. As well as I'm more interesting in Cultural stuff, I took like a gabajillion Anthropology classes but it's not necessarily what I want to do per se.
I do want to do music and I do want to do languages. I've taken a year of Japanese and half a year of Korean and I want to keep going. So I've thought of just doing East Asian Studies, or something. But the schools that HAVE Korean as an option are like USC and UCLA. :/ Basically never going to happen! AHHHH I HATE THIS ALL. :((
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curious, what do you want to do with languages?
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I just feel like if I do English than I can do publishing or something, and just sit down and read books all day. It would be wonderful and I know I would enjoy it. But I can't do 9-5 jobs. I'm just not made for that sort of existence. But it would be a source of income; it's why I want to do it.
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fuq this i just wanna be a pokemon master
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There's one here called SOAS which pretty much has everything you wanted.
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I'll check out SOAS, thank you! :D
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Or maybe I'm just being overly concerned and self-critical. I don't know.
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I think in your situation you just shouldn't compare yourself to others (which isn't much because that's what I do too) but some people are different when it comes to being speaking out and there isn't a ~standard~ of what you should contribute to a class or to a subject. If you something to say or you don't, it doesn't make it you less of an English major. God knows, that I don't speak well enough for someone who has a lot to say.
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Thanks for your advice, though =D
Sorry for the late reply.
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i think the way i've always seen it is that i just enjoy reading and discussing texts. i'm not much of an academic, lol. the really academic types, the ones who talk in lit jargon all the time, they really set me off.
i wish i'd been able to do more languages in college, too, but my major ate up a lot of my time. :/
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Agreed. I enjoy reading and writing and talking about the books but I swear sitting in my American lit class was murder. It was just torture having to sit with people and doing the same thing EVER single class and 3hrs of the SAME shit over and over. Pretentious assholes and the league of them sitting in a 45 seat class. It really made me re-think what I wanted to do.
I'm trying to find a college that can do both. It's not coming up as easy tbh.
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