Alternatively, this can be played as a bingo in your English lecture. Or a drinking game.
- Barnard creative writing majors who write shitty poetry for their significant others.
- Pre-law English majors.
- English majors who strangely only care about Freud and psychoanalysis and Lacan.
- English majors who use the words “duality” and “postmodernism” in every sentence thinking they’re all that.
- Barnard English majors who realize the requirements are way too white-washed but realize too late and are stuck.
- CC English majors who talk over Barnard students. Like constantly.
- English majors whose favorite books are YA or Colleen Hoover books.
- English majors who know Colleen Hoover should be canceled.
- English majors who don’t have any reading comprehension.
- English majors who just write a string of run-on sentences.
- English majors who have a celebrity-level obsession with certain English professors. (Prof Lynn and his tote bag collection. Professor Sharpe. Jennie Kassanoff. Peter Platt.)
- English majors who overuse the semicolon.
- English majors who overuse the em dash.
- English majors who want to be a writer but instead are going into journalism or academia.
- English majors who don’t read the books but still feel empowered to talk SO MUCH.
- Sally Rooney English majors.
- English majors who want to go into publishing.
- English majors who want to be philosophy majors soooooooo bad.
- English majors who still can’t fucking bring themselves to write their essays.
- English majors who stan Barnard’s speaking and writing center.
- English majors who are too excited for Taylor Swift’s new album.
- English majors who condemn Taylor Swift’s whole discography.
- English majors who try to sneak in a quote by their celebrity crush at any chance they get.
- English majors who refuse to accept (or don’t know??) the fanboys acronym from middle school and want to break every compound sentence with “yet” as the coordinating conjunction.
- English majors who need to go to the writing center with every paper draft because they’re insecure.
- English majors who should’ve double majored with something else but were too indecisive and now it’s too late.
- English majors who are concentrating in Film Studies, and visualize any Aristotle text as a screenplay.
- English majors who cannot differentiate your, you’re, and you are, yet can write a thesis critiquing Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan.
- English majors who overuse the phrase, “the juxtaposition of industrialism versus naturalism” when reading poetry by William Butler Yeats.
- English majors who, ever since they took AP Lang in 11th grade, constantly bring up an author’s ethos, pathos, or logos.
That One CC English Major via Bwog Archives