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The topic of your major surfacing in casual conversation.

GelzoGelzo
edited 2011-10-30 02:33:06 in Meatspace
Pony Sleuth
"Linguistics, huh? So, you know a lot of languages or something?"



I bet there's stuff like this that other majors get, but I'm obviously less familiar with it on a first-hand basis. For instance, I imagine art, liberal arts, and women's studies majors have a hard time finding respect sometimes.
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  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Being a film major means that everyone thinks I'm a drug addict who just has to put them in their next movie.

    Just so you all know.


  • WaltzyWaltzy
    When I tell people I'm pursuing massage therapy, everyone suddenly has "this thing in my back".
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Man, my neck's been hurting for three weeks. Could you please see if there's anything wrong with it?
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    English major generally results in 'hahaha I would like fries with that' or some other two-bit witticism.
  • WaltzyWaltzy
    I could punch your neck. How about that? 8D
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    Please don't. ._.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    ;_;

    And here I thought we were family and stuff.
  • WaltzyWaltzy
    Aww no I was kidding~!

    Not a punch, a love tap!
  • PonicalicaPonicalica
    (void)
    Being a film major means that everyone thinks I'm a drug addict who just has to put them in their next movie.

    But you are a drug addict...
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    There's a difference between a dealer and an addict, ponicalica. >:|

    I may be addicted to dealing, though.
  • PonicalicaPonicalica
    (void)
    I thought you were both.
  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.
    No Juan, that's being a rock musician.

    Incidentally, I'm clearing out my stock and friends get it cheaper.

    As for the topic, I try to keep it brief and simple when swordsmanship comes up. If people want to know more, they'll tell me. Otherwise, I just tell them that "hey, this actually exists and it's pretty cool" with a small example or two of how it logically works.
  • PonicalicaPonicalica
    (void)
    I'm a math major.  Whenever I mention this to people, they feel compelled to comment on how they're bad at math and math is hard and how amazing it is that I can do it.
  • ViviVivi
    $80+ per session
    Ew, math. The worst subject.
  • delta534delta534
    Tech support
    Being a computer science major does not mean I am a computer wizard and can fix every single issue you are having you computer. I can help on a few subjects just don't expect magic. 
  • CrimsonCrimson
    Give us fire! Give us ruin! Give us our glory!
    When people find out I'm studying Chemical Engineering, they confuse my job for that of a Chemist. Chemical Engineering is more physics than chemistry.
  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.
    how amazing it is that I can do it

    Well, it is.
  • All NinesAll Nines
    Has friends besides tanks now
    "Ew, math. The worst subject."

    But math is cool.
  • Wicked223Wicked223
    We Played Some Open Chords and Rejoiced, For the Earth Had Circled the Sun Yet Another Year
    Being a computer science major does not mean I am a computer wizard and can fix every single issue you are having you computer.


    FUCKING THIS
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    >MFW Wicked's not a rap major.
  • AHRAHR
    COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA IS NOT THE SAME AS SPEECH THERAPY.
  • ViviVivi
    $80+ per session
    >Communication major

    So when's the next party?
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    You're thinking of Business there.
  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star
    I'm either going to choose graphic design (specifically character design) or jewelry

    Not sure what people will say about either
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    Guys, 99% of the human race is fucking retarded.

    Why are you surprised at this
  • AHRAHR
    edited 2011-10-30 11:28:14
    Because that statistic is untrue.

    Ignorance is not a sign of retardation. It's a sign of lack of experience in something, which is understandable, if frustrating.
  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star
    ^^ Besides, don't you have to be below average to be even considered for retarded?

    So the 1% would have to be so intelligent that all the world problems would have been figured out and solved by now, wouldn't they?
  • RedEyedAbyssRedEyedAbyss
    edited 2011-10-30 11:41:48

    ^^^
    --implying you are the 1%.

    I'd rather support the 99% than the 1%.

    ^Intelligence has little to do with real-world problem solving ability. Otherwise, Mao Tse-Tung would have done a lot better in making the ideal communist society.

  • InsanityAddictInsanityAddict
    Diet NEET
    Liberal arts major here, it's damn hard to explain what I'm studying without either being vague or pretentious. So most of the time I try to go for both.
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    My current major gets "what?" reactions.

    Don't know what I'll be doing after this hell-semester is over, though.
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