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10 Gifts an English Major will get This Christmas

Or things you can always get them!

Rebecca Beaulieu

Dec 26, 2016

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10 Gifts an English Major will get This Christmas

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Christmas is here and you need a gift for the English Major in your life: here's a fun list of ten things English Majors, like myself, get for Christmas every year that will always make us happy. *Note: not every English Major is the same, but these are generally good bets.

1. A Book

Now, obviously. With this gift, though, you have to be careful. It is very likely that the English Major in your life already has lots of books-getting one they don't own or haven't read can be a challenge. Your next best bet is a gift card to a bookstore!

2. A Journal

There are many options here: you could get them a "Wreck this Journal" or a regular lined journal--they probably write a lot. If they write on-the-go, then pocket sized is best!

3. Nice Pens

If the English Major in your life uses journals, a nice pen to write in them is a great idea. They're less likely to lose a nice pen than they are one of those plain black pens that come ten or twenty to a bag.

4. Literary-Themed Clothes

A scarf or a pair of socks with a quote from a book they love will always cheer them up. Who doesn't want a pair of Sherlock Holmes socks???

5. Fun Sticky Notes

English Majors write all over books and papers-fun sticky notes to make the task less daunting with spruce up their books and make annotating more fun!

6. The Movie Version

We all know that books are always better than the movies--but giving that English Major a movie version of a book she's read won't fail.

7. Tickets to a Play

The typical English major also reads a lot of dramas and would love to go see a show!

8. Literary-Themed Food

Maybe some chocolate frogs from Harry Potter, or a Great Gatsby-Themed cocktail (virgin for under-21ers of course). There are plenty of literary-themed recipes to please the book fiend.

9. A Poster

Are you even an English Major if you don't have a poster of one of your favorite books on the wall? Or a Shakespeare quote? There are all sorts of literary decorations from posters to pillows that an English Major would love.

10. Book Ends

The English Major probably has a bookshelf or two in their house, right? Some cute book ends would be a lovely addition!

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!

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Or things you can always get them!

1. A Book

2. A Journal

3. Nice Pens

4. Literary-Themed Clothes

5. Fun Sticky Notes

6. The Movie Version

7. Tickets to a Play

8. Literary-Themed Food

9. A Poster

10. Book Ends

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4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

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5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

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7. When you've been up for 12 hours straight writing a paper.

8. And then you manage to stay awake in class the next day.

9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

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12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

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