Our schooling days have us meeting all sorts of students from different faculties. Over the course of time, we begin to form a certain impression of certain ‘types’ of student and they are usually related to their major. We have come up with some student profiles – this time, we’ve got the English Lit student. Do these characteristics fit a devoted literature student that you know?
The English Lit Student
Perhaps the most sickening question posed by relatives is, “what are you going to do when you’re graduate? Teach English?”
Your grammar nazi ways may have pissed off some of your friends for correcting them on a public Facebook post, but you can’t help yourself. Ridding the world of bad grammar is one of your many destinies. You might also shun Singlish causing your friends to call you ‘atas’ and perhaps even an ‘ang moh pai’.
- Math is your kryptonite. In fact, one of the things you love about your degree is not having to associate yourself with numbers.
1.5 You can however, quote Shakespeare and Emily Bronte any day.
2. Rhymes, poems and puns are your forte.
3. You have a habit of using long bombastic words when you speak that leaves you with one, confused faces and two, having to explain what it means. Or, you know, come up with a synonym because you’re a walking thesaurus.
4. People tend to think that you have it easy because ‘all you have to do is read’. Well, yeah, reading is fun. But it becomes a chore when you have to read 3 books (or more) each week. For every semester. For every year.
5. People can say all the discouraging things they want, but you won’t give up what you’re studying for anything else. After all, how else will you know that film adaptations of novels (e.g. The Great Gatsby) are inaccurate and tell the whole world about it?
