12 Stages of Being an English Major Told By New Girl

Because it's a lot different than Book club meetings and reading Shakespeare (which can actually be quite hard)

1. When you became an English Major because you thought you'd get to read all day
2. And then you realize it's mainly papers and words you never knew existed
3. Then you take the first Adv. Comp class and realize you know nothing about the English language aka what a gerund phrase is and the fact everything you learned in high school is wrong
4. When you only want to read the books and stories but not write essays on them
5. At the end of the semester you want to cry because it’s paper after paper after paper
6. When you promise yourself you will never write another paper, no matter what grade you will get and then you get assigned another paper
7. When you spend all your time reading and writing your next paper
8. When your friends think they understand your workload because they have a 5 page paper due in four days and you have four 5-page papers due all in one week
9. When your friends ask you to revise their papers.
10. When you finally finish all four 5-page papers AND have time to revise them
11. When you can actually write sentences that have anaphoras, isocolons, chiasmus', polyptotons, and antimetaboles in them
12. Knowing that you wouldn’t ever want to be anything else because let’s be honest, being an English major is the best