<p>I'm copying the "Life of a Biology Major" thread</p>
<p>What is the life of an English major?</p>
<p>Expect to constantly wonder what the hell you're going to do with your English degree, always contemplating switching to Journalism, and declaring yourself pre-law. You'll write a lot but your workload won't be terribly heavy.</p>
<p>What can you do with an English degree besides teach and write?</p>
<p>Go to LA and screenwrite [famous examples: David Milch (Yale), Greg Daniels (Harvard)] but that falls under the broad catergory of 'write' anyway.</p>
<p>Anything, seriously. I've considered law school and journalism. Neither of them was "me". I'm going to grad school and then use my degrees in the international health field.</p>
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Expect to constantly wonder what the hell you're going to do with your English degree, always contemplating switching to Journalism, and declaring yourself pre-law. You'll write a lot but your workload won't be terribly heavy.
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<p>Wow. This is absolutely correct.</p>
<p>advertising, editing, etc. if you can write, you should be fine.</p>
<p>what do you do in terms of coursework and stuff?</p>
<p>read novels/poetry/short stories, read briefly about their history or context or about the author, read some criticism, read some theory, etc. Then, write about the things you've read--the way they're written, the messages they convey, the devices they use, their intertextual or historical impact, and so on. Be prepared to write a lot and to read even more. It's a good life. Really, though.</p>
<p>For specific coursework requirements, maybe check your school's English department website. Where I attend, I need to take a course in lit before 1700, a course in lit after 1700, an American Lit class, and a course that focuses solely on a single author (Shakespeare and Austen being the two most popular, in terms of coursework, as far as I can tell).</p>
<p>umm u can do pretty much anything with an english major... your major doesnt exclude you from any job... you could go into finance if you wanted to</p>
<p>there are so many cases of people who majored in something but did something or went to grad school for somethign COMPLETELY different -- my northwestern interviewer majored in journalism, ended up in law school... youre not really restricted by your major whatsoever</p>
<p>You can do everything and nothing with an English major. My suggestion would be improving your quantitative skills (minor in math or economics) and becoming fluent in a foreign language. Becoming computer savvy doesn't hurt either.</p>
<p>And of course, internships, internships, internships!</p>
<p>My quantitative skills suck.</p>