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Yes, I am a Communication major.

It's not an easy way out.

Mar 08, 2016

While I can not deny it took me forever to figure out what I was going to major in throughout college, when I made the decision to become a communication major, I couldn't feel happier with my choice. This is the major that I felt I would do the best in and would enjoy the most. When I started telling people about my plans to study communication in college, the responses weren't quite what I had hoped.

"You're going to have a hard time getting a job with that degree."

"That's an easy major, you will never have homework."

"You should switch out of that major by your sophomore year."

and my personal favorite, "What are your tests on, how to write a blog?"

I never thought of my major as a competition compared to others of how difficult or how much work I would have to do. I always just thought of it as something that I truly wanted to pursue, and something that I knew I would love. As someone who is now halfway through their second semester of being a communication major, I can still say that I feel I have made the best decision in choosing what I would like to study. Being a communication major has made me realize the things that I love to do, like writing or analyzing media.

In my opinion, communication majors do not have an easy major. In order to excel in this field, you need to be passionate about what you do, and you truly do have to work hard in your studies. While our major may have a lot to do with things like blogs or social media, it covers so much more than that. The influences involved in the field of communication, the technology, and numerous other aspects all come in to play. As a communication major, we have to constantly keep up with what is going on in the world, which isn't an easy job.

As much as people talk down on this major, it is one that is important and needs to exist in order for our world to work the way it does today. One thing I have noticed being a communication major is how much the people in our field love what they do. Communication majors know what they want to do with their lives, and although this major has been given a name of "an easy way out," with the hard work and dedication I have seen so far, I know that our success will prove to anyone who has doubted us that they are wrong.

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