- People asking what you plan to do with your degree and either assuming that you are teaching or working in a museum
- People telling you that you won’t get rich
- You have 6 books – for one class
- A bookshelf is needed for your dorm room
- And your house, as who would want to part with some of the books
- You know Chicago Style Citation by heart
- But you still have the citation guide
- The amount of papers is around 10-12 per semester
- There are a few tests potentially thrown in there
- You have to buy more books for papers
- You know the definition of historiography
- It’s the history of history , and you groan when thinking about it
- Some of us critique the historical accuracy of movies and TV shows
- We look up the info before or after we see the program
- On Wikipedia, something we would never dare use for class
- We have a favorite book site that gives out some free, such as
- www.archive.org, which have books out of copyright
- You likely know more than one language
- Your area of interest is often specific, and you have multiple ones
- That have little to do with one another
- All you watch are historical movies or TV shows
- You read history books for fun sometimes
- You name drop random historical figures
- You are often cynical about historical events
- This is the best major, and
- Debate us concerning that
- At your own risk
- Because we know how to read, write, and argue points
- We are very passionate about what we do, and will go as far as to adamantly defend someone who lived multiple centuries ago
- We would not trade our books for anything
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