the most annoying stereotypes ppl give you about your major

College Life
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<p>I'm a double major - International Relations and Economics. It's interesting to see how people's reactions differ depending on which one I say first. They seem more impressed if I put economics at the top of the list. </p>

<p>My favorite response ever: (I was doing some reading for a Poli class on an airplane, and the guy next to me starts talking):
Him: "What are you reading?"
Me: "Politicial theory"
Him: "Oh, so you want to be a politician?"
Right.</p>

<p>Another good one:
"I'm impressed there are Arts students who can do math"
... like taking a BA means you have to be unable to work with numbers?</p>

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<p>I'm doing econ and math.</p>

<p>When I say econ first: "Why not Wharton?"...wharton is NOT econ people, get that through your head. I if I had been interested in accounting, marketing etc I would have done wharton...I'm not.</p>

<p>When I say math first: "So you want to teach?", a funny one I've gotten a couple of times is "Do you tutor?"...I don;t want to teach. But I might tutor, depends on the $$ lol</p>

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<p>"What do you want to major in?"</p>

<p>"Idk."</p>

<p>"Really?!?"</p>

<p>"...yeah...it's called 'undeclared'.."</p>

<p>*looks at me like i'm destined for failure </p>

<p>After a few months of that, I switched to:</p>

<p>"What do you want to major in?"</p>

<p>"Maybe psychology. I'm interested, but not really certain..."</p>

<p>"So you want to be a psychologist?"</p>

<p>"Nooo....I'm not really..."</p>

<p><em>silence</em></p>

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<p>When I tell people I am a nursing major, they ask me why I didn't just go to community college (I am at NYU). I think that response says it ALL.</p>

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<p>That people in engineering are geeks with no social skills. The people in science are a lot worse in that department, from what I've seen (I've been in both faculties).</p>

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<p>Linguistics:</p>

<p>"So, you must speak a lot of languages, right?"</p>

<p>...yeah, not so much.</p>

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<p>Some people have this misconception that linguistics is just about learning a lot of languages. </p>

<p>Hooray ignorance.</p>

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<p>When I tell people that I am going to electrical engineering, they assume that I'm smarter than they are.</p>

<p>And they're right.</p>

<p>;)</p>

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<p>Sociology:</p>

<p>"A p*ssy humanities major."</p>

<p>Philosophy:</p>

<p>"What? That's not at all practical."</p>

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<p>math majors are disorganized, brilliant, and can't function in real life.
but i'm alright with that stereotype 'cause it describes me perfectly. ;)</p>

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<p>Are you serious wutangfinancial?</p>

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<p>History</p>

<p>"Are you going to teach?"</p>

<p>If I was going to teach I would have said History Education.</p>

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<p>fizix2, another math major here who totally agrees (except that I am not so arrogant to call myself brilliant :))</p>

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<p>"I'm a business major."</p>

<p>Most annoying response:
"Oh I hate business majors, they just take the easy route, major in some BS, and get a 80k job on graduation. You guys suck, what cop outs."</p>

<p>Second most annoying in similar vein:
"Oh, so you're going to be a blood sucking ass." (Uh... okay?)</p>

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<p>Yeah, the "you're an English major so you must be aspiring to teach" stereotype is something I get all the time, too.</p>

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<p>Everyone in my family is in science or academics (yeah they're all nerds).</p>

<p>So when i initially took Economics and Business in high school- everybody in my family assumed i will do nothing in life. Lot of serious talks hapenned and stuff :)</p>

<p>My favourite came from my old grandmother- " Doesn't matter- the girl looks fine- lets start searching eligible guys for her marriage " </p>

<p>From school mates i usually get-'why do you want to study Eco? Why not business?'
me "I don't want to go into business"
they "are you not smart enough for it?"
me "yeah- thats correct"</p>

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<p>^ It comes with being Indian</p>

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<p>Haha so true</p>

<p>Also, people assume I'm a soulless prick when they hear I'm a finance major.</p>

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<p>@blue: I believe he is as serious as WuTang Financial's reputation; that is, "a place for you and your kids...[where you gotta] git' it, grab it, bonk." LOL, I'm afraid this may be lost on most people...</p>

<p>Which stereotypes stir up my contempt? </p>

<p>None. They're stereotypes.</p>

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<p>People assume I'm retarded because I'm a Communication major.</p>

<p>They're probably right. I just tell everyone I'm going to coast by on my good looks and charm ::shrug::</p>