A common trend in Odyssey articles lately has been comparing college majors to anything popular among college students: sitcom characters, alcohol, coffee, dogs. When the first of its kind stumbled across my feed, I found it amusing. The second, I snickered a bit. As the number of articles in the trend increased, though, the originality behind them decreased. With a vague and obscure enough explanation, you can justify just about anything for every major. To demonstrate, let's see if one well-known character can be used for eleven different majors.
1. Education
Education majors want their students to truly learn the material. Stopping at nothing to get the message across, be it elaborate group projects or sending your office into a panic over a fire, Dwight and education majors are one and the same.
2. Psychology
Psychology majors know every brain is unique, and they must keep this in mind in order to help and work with others optimally. In the same way, Dwight knows to don a different wig for each person, ready to step into the appropriate mindset for the interactions to come.
3. Business
While business majors are not all, well, business, they do know to show no weakness. Who shares this one, non-unique trait? Dwight Schrute.
4. History
5. Science
Dwight knows not to take anything at face value - not even gravity. He questions and tests everything, just like a science major.
6. Art
Sometimes you have to take risks to make the statement you want. Art majors know this well, as does Dwight Schrute. I mean, he did get a pumpkin stuck on his head. If that isn't art, I don't know what is.
7. Political Science
Are we sure Dwight didn't study poli-sci? When he took the manager position, he took a no-nonsense approach. When a political science major imagines taking office, they no doubt picture themselves doing the same.
8. English
Writing inspiration has to come from somewhere, and where better to find it than the endless books and articles English majors read? The ever-so relatable Dwight also sees value in the words of others.
9. Ministry
Dwight would have definitely been a ministry major. He isn't afraid to extinguish the fire of ridiculous trends, just like ministry majors are always prepared to extinguish the fire of sin.
10. Math
Ah, there's nothing like that victorious feeling of completing a challenging problem that took you six hours, and almost drove you to set fire to your math book so you wouldn't ever have to see it again. Dwight loves the taste of victory, even that over numbers.
11. Criminal Justice
Always on the look out for the realities of crime, including suspicious sounding vigilantes. Dwight is the embodiment of a criminal justice major, if they were overzealous paper salesmen in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Wow, could Dwight be more relatable and diverse in his skills? Who knows what he might have studied based on these out-of-context gifs of his character?
