Majoring in English made me a terrible writer. But I got to read books and my parents never made me choose a major like I was going to trade school. College was a box to tick so I could get a better paying job. Being an English major was not a huge mistake or anything. That PhD degree....I wouldn't recommend it.

Well for one most of them would probably not assume that all students who major in a certain subject have the same level of intelligence.

My best friend was an English-pre-med major and got into both law and med schools. She is brilliant.

Anonymous wrote:I’m an English major an am smarter than most. Intellectually more than street smarts. I have an okay job making 150k and enjoy what I do. All of my managers have appreciated my reading, writing and presentation skills. You’d think that’s a minor thing but nope.

What field?

I’m an English major an am smarter than most. Intellectually more than street smarts. I have an okay job making 150k and enjoy what I do. All of my managers have appreciated my reading, writing and presentation skills. You’d think that’s a minor thing but nope.

Ellie Kemper was a guest judge on AGT this week. I looked her up in Wikipedia and learned that she has a BA in English from Princeton.

A troll maybe. If OP loves the field, it wouldn’t matter if majors are smart or not. If OP has to ask, s/he’s in a wrong major.

Dumbest question of the year.

The oxygen-laden blood flowed into the tributaries of the brain, and then into the capillaries, refreshing the cells with the raw fuel needed to do their work. Each cell could only do so little, being only a single cell, a plebe among billions. But two cells! Four! Sixteen! What was this thing, called intelligence, if not the collective action of an exponential number of cells?

Who wrote this posting? A teen I hope.

What decision can possibly be based upon anonymous strangers' answers to this question.

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Anonymous wrote:Smart maybe, but not employable.

If you can write, that’s employable.

Yes, McD is always hiring.

I dunno many white collar work that doesn’t require writing. Even at McD, if you want to move up the ladder, flipping skills + being able to write = golden.

Anyone who majors in harder subjects which require more work, such as English or History or Economics or any of the hard Sciences (which require even more work) are "smart." Any of these majors require a lot more work than doing the easiest major possible, and most of us who hire know those majors...they are the ones to which most students gravitate.

Another English major lawyer. My major certainly served me well and I loved my classes and school work , so that was an added bonus.

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Anonymous wrote:Smart maybe, but not employable.

If you can write, that’s employable.

Yes, McD is always hiring.

Anonymous wrote:Yes, usually smart because usually well-read with excellent writing skills. Agree that it is a path to further graduate school, though, not immediate employment.

Mostly because they have no other choice...

Sadly, many of them double down and get an equally useless graduate degree.

I was an English major and I'm now a lawyer. I'm doing fine and the humanities are important, but also I don't think college majors matter very much.

I got good grades but I was not a "serious" English major. The kids who were serious about it had favorite authors and periods, or knew about actors who worked with Shakespeare, or wrote poetry that was actually good.