# What your major says about you **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 24, 2002, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-your-major-says-about-you/133762 "2002-10-24T22:39:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lear\_s\_fool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/df788c/32.png) [@Lear\_s\_fool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lear_s_fool)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2002, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-your-major-says-about-you/133762/41 "2002-10-26T00:41:47Z")
MALE Women’s Studies: see Gynecology FEMALE Women’s studies: see Myth ---
**Author:** ![agentfroot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@agentfroot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/agentfroot)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2002, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-your-major-says-about-you/133762/42 "2002-10-26T03:14:01Z")
Well, I’m currently an English major, but I’m not a caffeine addict (yet). I had a cup of tea and some orange slice today (a friend got me the tea, and i had the slice at lunch). I thought about being an art major though… I don’t hate my parents, they’re just an embarrassment because they’re too normal. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2002, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-your-major-says-about-you/133762/43 "2002-10-26T03:20:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pravnik \* > \*\*The quickest way to take the piss out of an anthropologist or anthro major is to ask “Anthropology…that’s another word for sociology, right?” \*\* Ah, well, THAT is true! But I had a housemate who was a soc. major, and her course of studies was nothing at all like mine. Actually, everyone who finds out I was an anthropology major asks if I’m going to go start digging things up. Er, no. Hmmm…crouching on my knees under a hot sun, brushing dirt away with a toothbrush. For some reason, this doesn’t actually sounds enjoyable. How odd. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2002, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-your-major-says-about-you/133762/44 "2002-10-26T03:45:25Z")
Chemists? Biochemists? Molecular Biologists? Well, the last two are definitely “well, at least I’m not [insert other major here]”. ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2002, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-your-major-says-about-you/133762/45 "2002-10-26T03:47:11Z")
Heh… I’m a criminology major who wants to double it with Sociology… I just want to give myself a better chance at finding interesting work, plus I’ll most likely pursue a masters in Sociology if I can. I’m still not entirely sure what I want to do with it yet. ---
**Author:** ![manx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@manx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manx)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2002, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-your-major-says-about-you/133762/46 "2002-10-26T04:22:51Z")
Classic… I’ve just finished the first year of my BA, double-majoring (probably) in Political Studies and either Spanish or European Languages. This means I go out, get drunk and spend the next few hours talking about Communism, Capitalism, who’s going to win the next election, yaddahyaddahyah… …and then, when people don’t agree with me, I insult them in another language. Especially if they’re engineers, as too many of my friends are, whereby I can say ‘silence. You have no soul’ …oh, and I’m delightfully unemployable…go the Arts… It’s all coming up Millhouse. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2002, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-your-major-says-about-you/133762/47 "2002-10-26T04:34:27Z")
The engineering tee shirt reads - I like to fiddle with things, I like to make money, I have no fashion sense. ecologists - want to wear cutoffs and birkenstocks in the snow (this is THE way to tell an ecologist from an environmental engineer - the engineer will be wearing warm clothing and hiking boots) ((may be slightly out of date)) (((for the ecologist - I’m up to date on the environmental engineers))) ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2002, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-your-major-says-about-you/133762/48 "2002-10-26T04:35:06Z")
Ooooh, what about me, being a Computer Science and Humanities dual major? Oh, and **Daowajan** , you think you can out-self-caffeineate _me_?!?! Bwahahahaha! I laugh at the thought! ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2002, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-your-major-says-about-you/133762/49 "2002-10-26T05:02:30Z")
How about a “History and Philosophy of Science” major? It would have to be the most pointless (vocationally) of all courses. The only thing you could do with it would be to teach HPS at Uni…or write a text to instruct other poor HPS students. There are no jobs out there for Philosophers or Historians of Science, well not in my employment pages of the Saturday paper anyway. But I love it. 😃 It’s, well, just **so** mundane and pointless that it’s interesting. It’s also impossible to describe to anyone else what it is that I actually DO. I like that. They think I must be terribly clever, 'cos they don’t understand my descriptions…bwahahaaaaaa And what about when you tell someone you are doing an Arts degree, and they then coo about how _creative_ you must be to be able to paint/draw/sculpt so well? Thats ART numbnuts. Art **Z** is what you do when you want to graduate with a first class honours degree in Unemployment. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Caffeine.addict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@Caffeine.addict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caffeine.addict)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2002, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-your-major-says-about-you/133762/50 "2002-10-26T05:35:57Z")
You know what guys, when you’ve chased No-Doz with a pot of Industrial Sludge coffee then lets talk about self-caffeinating. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2002, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-your-major-says-about-you/133762/51 "2002-10-26T12:17:44Z")
What is sad is when your body is past caffeine, that it won’t do anything for you. Then you start cursing the day decades ago you had your first cup of coffee. ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2002, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-your-major-says-about-you/133762/52 "2002-10-26T14:29:11Z")
Shit, **brujo** , you think I _haven’t_ done that? And you actually think that that caffeine dose will affect me? You’re talking to the person who can eat an entire box of penguin mints and two or three red bulls in an hour or so, and feel no caffeine-rush to speak of. [/pissing contest] 😉 ---
**Author:** ![i\_won\_t\_fear\_love](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f8ce5/32.png) [@i\_won\_t\_fear\_love](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/i_won_t_fear_love)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2002, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-your-major-says-about-you/133762/53 "2002-10-26T19:55:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by brujo \* > \*\*You know what guys, when you’ve chased No-Doz with a pot of Industrial Sludge coffee then lets talk about self-caffeinating. \*\* _waves_ how about two vivarin and a cup of gas station coffee? i had to pull off the road about 40 minutes later because i had a panic attack. :smack: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-your-major-says-about-you/133762.md?page=2)