Dear Non-Believers of the Liberal Arts Majors,
I get it, you think you’re better than us “low-lifes” here in the College of Liberal Arts. With your lab reports, calculators and administrative business textbooks, you look down on us with disgrace and egotistical attitudes speaking of how you will be employed in ten years while we will not be. Well let me tell you something, I’m sick of it.
I get it, I’m an English major (Journalism, actually) and I have picked a so-called “dying” field to study. Well guess what? You couldn’t be more wrong. In fact, having a degree in liberal arts actually makes you more versatile in the world, considering most LA majors can be applied to a broader spectrum than majors in any other college. Because of this, LA students are not bound to one career path.
English students can become lawyers, professors, and successful business women. Psychology students can work in therapy, human resources, recruiting and more. Spanish majors are needed in all parts of the workforce now that the U.S. is becoming more diverse, and History majors can work in museums, the government, and many other fields.
As if that isn’t enough of a reason to back off, Liberal Arts students possess extremely important skills, like verbal and written skills, hence why you are always asking me to edit your papers because “writing just isn’t your thing”.
Plus, being a successful human isn’t measured by monetary value or how many people you are the boss of, it’s measured in happiness. And guess what? Writing makes me happy. So in that sense, I’d say I win.
Now that I have officially ranted and gotten it all off of my chest, let me just say that students in other colleges have very bright futures ahead of them. Being an engineer or a doctor is amazing, and I envy anyone who has the abilities to make that happen, because I am not one of those people.
But just because you go to med school, or are set on a path for a six-figure salary, it does not mean you have the right shut down the hopes and dreams of another. Your six figure salary does not excuse you from being a grade a a**hole, it just means your children will not be in student debt and you’ll probably drive a Porsche.
Well guess what? One day when I am the editor in chief of Cosmopolitan magazine (ugh, love you Joanna) I will also make a bunch of money, and I will be happy. Never forget it.
Do not underestimate the abilities of a young woman with a drive for success, no matter what the diploma on her wall may say she studied. Because anyone can achieve success if they work hard enough and want it bad enough.
So stop hating. And if you don’t, then stop asking me to revise your papers, cause I’m over it.
Sincerely,
Future Editor in Chief of Something