I regret my English major

tough luck, I dont regret engineering

it's k user, you can rest easy knowing you can read the shit out of books with a greater capacity of understanding than the majority of the population

i mean, it's not like just anybody can learn these things with out the rigorous training only an english department can provide.

Any education is good. You can always go back to school if you fail to find a job.

It's most important that you do something that you enjoy.

Best luck to you user

t. Euro

>avoided the whole identity politics clusterfuck that is modern humanities and decide to read hard and read a lot on my own

feeling relatively good about this decision these years later, the little bit that i would've gotten out of the degree wouldn't have been worth the endless miasma of disillusioning bullshit

That's just liquor and guessing.

I regret my engineering degree.

>That's just liquor and guessing.
not quite, its pretty fun too

Hey OP, I'm currently an English major, about to be a junior at uni.
My current outlook on it, especially after being assigned to read Possession and Small World last semester, is an understanding of the flaws of pursuing a career that functions in an "academic" setting, but also an acceptance of that fact that getting this far in life, being able to even study in a university and get any degree, is an experience as/more rewarding than what a lot of others do with their time on earth.

please tell me more so I could feel better about being an engineering major.

i regret my computer science major, so i guess were like, even, man?

>polsci major
>literally no jobs except unpaid internships dicksucking on campaign trails
>too cynical to immerse myself in the cultlike atmosphere of the political campaign circuit
>go for a masters in public administration instead
>still jack shit for job openings for people without 3-7 years experience

I regret not finishing my English degree before switching to something that pays.

I regret that it cost so much, but I'm very glad it gave me the drive to learn at a time when I otherwise might not have. I read old books I otherwise wouldn't have, and learned old languages I otherwise couldn't have. That said, I plan to let my degree rot in a closet somewhere while I learn a skilled trade. Not that I think I need to; but I've always been biased with a love towards physical objects and a deep respect for honest work.

I'm 19 years old.

I am handsome, smart, athletic and virile.

I have a novel that is in it's final editing stage, and a creative writing professor at my college has read the first draft and thinks it's saleable.

I have a girlfriend who is confident, articulate, playful and spontaneous.

I have a small group of interesting friends from different social and academic backgrounds, and I also have many other acquaintances who see me as a reliable source of humour and good company.

Both my parents are alive and in good health.

I have no regrets.

I have already experienced three existential crises, the latter of which was described as having the depth and profundity of a man twice my age.

I am a passionate lover, a sharp thinker, and a trader of witty repartee.

I am not self-pitying, meek or needlessly humble.

I will live a good life at your expense.

Fuck you OP, I'm going back to school this fall to make a second attempt at an English degree.
Post something motivational, would you?

Like this.
And this.
:((((((

19 is too young to have produced anything of real merit.

Wrong.

You sound quite insufferable tee bee eich.

i'm already regretting the next 40 years of my life

jealousy lol

>I have already experienced three existential crises, the latter of which was described as having the depth and profundity of a man twice my age.

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It is a masterpiece of copypasta and ranks among some of the best satire in the English language. It is only a shame that the author cannot copyright it and reveive the credit due to him.

he has a patreon

I started BS Bio, shifted to BS Archi and graduated, found a work as web designer with no IT background, just learned all during work. Never looked back.

Name one person besides Rimbaud to disprove what I said. Mid-20s is around the point when writers have garnered enough experience to produce quality work.

Not going to lie, I'm actually kind of jealous of your major despite your lack of prospects. It good be worse user.

I read a diverse selection of literature and enjoy it very much

that's the best thing I can say about my english degree

I regret not being a native speaker of English.

I'm glad I studied English (got a dual degree and went to law school so I avoided the barista track). I just wish my program had been more rigorous.

I honestly think that's the major problem with a lot of humanities programs - the faculty are all hippies who are constitutionally indisposed to giving out bad grades, and who probably find the very idea of ranking people distasteful. So the programs end up attracting the detritus of more rigorous majors. Then you have a bunch of morons in every class who don't read anything and couldn't give two shits about literature, and the conversation suffers. I took some advanced classes with fewer than 10 people in them and the experience was infinitely better.

On the other hand, I find it laughable that business majors are so much more respected than the humanities. My econ classes made the English program seem like boot camp, and the other business fields are even easier (except maybe accounting).

Álvares de Azevedo, considered the 2nd best brazilian romantic poet. Died when he was 20 years old.

I regret being born too.

I have transcended regret.

Very poetic.

>2nd best
>Brazilian
>romantic
>thinks his point still matters

But this is something that you can accomplish without the degree. Is an English degree really this useless?

I regret not caring about my GPA as much as I should have.

>he doesn't regret that he didn't regret regretting

>But this is something that you can accomplish without the degree. Is an English degree really this useless?
I guess you can self-teach yourself anything you want

but most people don't

wow wish i spent a lot of money to get an english degree

i have missed out on so much

I don't regret my math/physics degree.

But I'm totally unemployable, so....

>tfw this user is actually a depressed loner, but typing this post gave him a good laugh

It's a popular pasta, m8.

>majoring in english and not journalism
m8

how is it possible to be this new?

>Following sand nigger religions
Mohammedanism is just a shitty Christian heresy based around fanfiction written by an epileptic autist.

>Implying
Unless you had shit grades and no internships, then of course you're going to be unemployable.

now THIS is shitposting

writing profs are leftist liars

Is it financially viable to major in what your passion is if your passion isn't STEM related? I've majored in Computer Science and am doing well by it, but going to school for it was a real slog. I wish you could feasibly make money with an English or Philosophy major, but outside of academia or as a technical writer, I don't see how it's possible.

Islam is still cancer though

>Any education is good

no it isn't. time is valuable and education is a timesink. bad education is a waste of time -> bad

basically me. except I quit after a year and went to law

Jesus fucking christ
>Newfags microwaving this fucking mouldy pasta

GET OFF MY BOARD

I sleep better at night knowing this is bait and no real human actually holds this belief.

Bait aside, Islam is still a shit religion.

I don't know how to feel about my music major.

I naively thought an English Major would be about mastery of the english language, technical abstractions (basically formalism), and ascetic study of significant works in the language.

As it turns out, it's more about finding novel ways to:
>curate literature to suit your personal politics
>pretend something as past-oriented as literature can be progressive by creating new subjectivities to read old books
>produce research in volume... "publish or perish"
>cheekily smuggle films, YA, youtube, and twitter into literature courses where no one reads anything
>believe in fashionable nonsense

I had a shit childhood. All I want(ed) was to be alone somewhere with beautiful words. Instead, I get a professor bringing up gamergate drama in class, pop feminism, bad secular left criticism of science, and similar trash.

shoulda did Linguistics

I feel you, I'm leaving once I get my Bachelors. I'll probs work in a bookshop or attempt to run my own in the future, and write novels in my spare time.

Was she cute at least?

>be me fresh out of high school
>want to do an English major so fucking bad
>dad thinks it's a shit idea, fuck it doing it anyway
>read only 'queer, black and indigenous' authors all year
>forced to study 'feminist readings of Robinson Crusoe' where the island represents a vagina and Robinson is the patriarchy
>drop out
>become a doctor instead
>only good decision I ever made

Philosophy Major, English Minor. No regrets yet :^)

Written by a guy who could actually do something.

Who're you going to follow? Some faggot who wanted to save his brutal, dying empire? Or some faggot who went and *made* a new, brutal empire?

Okay, they're both actually pretty good.

>You can always go back to school if you fail to find a job.
What.

I'm socialist and I hate this fucking meme.

I find the Mongols really interesting. Does this mean I think they were paragons of virtue? No. I wouldn't find them interesting if I did.

Same with literature.

martin adan, louis zukofsky, chatterton

He expressed it very badly. But Islam is a Christian heresy.

>majoring in a dying field
>have fun at buzzfeed

You're thinking of linguistics, or english language. Maybe you should have done your research before dedicating 3 years of your life to a degree you don't understand.

>linguistics
>mastery of the English language

what the fuck are you talking about

How fucking rich is your family?

I don't regret my humanities degrees, I've pursued a STEM vocation after and will make ridiculous bank with it. In the words of the poet Ludacris, "regret is fo suckas fo suckas fo suckas, regret is fo suckas."

Lad, linguistics has nothing to do with English really, just language as a whole.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics

I cancelled chemical engineering midway and switched to history.

I really, really don't think I'll regret. Happiest I've ever been so far.

I see where he's coming from.

A lot of positions that are sustainable careers don't even care what your degree is in, just that you have a degree.

For instance I work (janitorial) at a call center and there's a desk for the guy who manages the managers. He's gotta make at least 40/50 thousand a year. He has his degree in his cubicle and it's seriously a Dance degree from the shitty state university that I'm going to.

Having a degree at all just means "yeah, I was on time to class for 4 years and I completed most of my assignments", and signals that you have devotion and the ability to meet a deadline.

People over-exaggerate "oh whaaaaat am i gunna do with my liberal arts degree".

That happiness wears off when you actually start applying for jobs and keep getting rejected because of a sea of 4 year humanities degrees is competing with you in this economy and you lack any experience to set you apart from the rest of them. The Bachelors degree is devalued to what the High School Diploma used to be. Want to be a Grad student enjoy your piled up debt just to be a park ranger or if your lucky teach at a Community College.

So basically in the United States you not only go through 10 years or whatever of schooling, you also need to go to university, which I heard is expensive as fuck, and graduate in the "right thing" so you're able to afford a living?

This is kinda fucked up. Why isn't everyone burning shit down up there.

>or if your lucky teach at a Community College.

I'm not american but I'd be more than happy to do that desu.

>Why isn't everyone burning shit down up there.

Television.

It's that easy.

And student debt isn't really a thing where I live thankfully

>tfw live in Sweden
>state pays you about 340 dollars a month to study
>you can take loans of about 620 dollars with pretty much no interest that can has to be payed back within 25 years, before you turn 60 at latest
>even the poorest can study without any major difficulties

>took (and learned) French and German for the fuck of it
>did the same with statistics and will probably study more than necessary to take advantage of this system

I like studying actually, might do a double major or something.

I wouldn't brag, unrestrained neoliberalism is the future of every place. We're all just in the waiting room until all our shits is privatized.

University is a daycare for adults who don't know what to do with themselves and are still afraid of the real world. Intellectually stimulating as it is, the four year degree is the equivalent of a high school diploma since anyone can get a high school diploma these days including shit for brains who are passed through despite failing grades and general lack of interest in schooling, thanks to the No Child Left Behind and Every Student Succeeds Acts. It sucks that feel good bureaucracy paired with shitty School boards have screwed everything up.

Clinton will fix it

She doesn't care, and even if she could she wouldn't because she never faced the problems us average joe Americans are facing. Quit being delusional. Comb Over Jesus can't and won't fix it either.

This.

I've always wanted to get an english degree and teach, but own a farm on the side or learn a trade before I teach (that or go into the french foreign legion). I learned how fufilling honest and hard work can be, the strengthening of my body while I work put shit in my head is aesthetic af.

CAN'T

40/50 thousand a year?!

At least?!

Whoa. What the fuck kind of literal pleb are you?

>I'm actually kind of jealous of your major despite your lack of prospects
what

I'm about to be a senior at Cornell and I wish I'd fallen for the STEM meme. I really do.

he said he was a janitor at a call center.

If you want the good parts of Humanities and STEM you do Business.