#humanities major

[maledettastella]

being a humanisties major feels like this

[kangchunhua]

No matter how hard I try and how well I do, I will never feel smart, because I’m humanities smart, not science smart. My language degree will never feel as important as my sibling’s math major. I could have a 4.0 GPA and it still wouldn’t matter, because it would be a 4.0 in linguistics, not in physics. Maybe in another life I’m STEM smart.

[meadow-of-fish]

Sometimes I get a huge burst of joy when I remember so much of my college education will get to be listening to an interesting audiobook in the public domain on YouTube while drawing cats.

I complain about the sheer amount of reading I have to do, but I tend to come away begrudgingly muttering it was actually pretty interesting.

Crazy that joy and whimsy happens when you do the things that are interesting to you.

[wolf-tail]

Stem majors love to be like "ooo you're not gonna get a job with an art degree" neither are you, bitch. We live under capitalism. Just because you were slightly more useful to rich people for a few decades doesn't mean they're not gonna try and replace us both with AI. Might as well study something I actually like if I'm gonna be broke anyway.

[faramirsonofgondor]

When you change your major in your junior year and now your parents think you’re gonna be broke for the rest of your life because you used to be a stem major but now you’re switching to humanities (I went from comp-sci to anthropology/archeology bc I fucking hate calculus too much 😭) (at least I’m graduating a year earlier than I would’ve before tho)

[the-furbylicious]

pacing around my college like a rat trapped in a maze as i write this essay

[tapdanceonmcconnelsballs]

if someone could rearrange my DNA, that'd be great. I'd be either an amorphous creature or Spiderman

[unvieilesprit]

(4/10/23)

As someone who graduated w/ a humanities degree I want to let fellow humanities people know that

you’re not a failure for not having your dream job straight out of college/university

if it takes a long ass time for you to get that job, it’s normal

some of these people will say very unhelpful, un-uplifting things and you gotta ignore them

I don’t want to get too vulnerable, but I don’t have any comments about the light at the end of the tunnel. I just hope we all get through there.