Major Mystery

It really bothers me when people compare their college majors to other people's. It seems like whenever I tell someone I'm a psychology major they automatically think that it's an easy major. This is completely untrue. The reason we all pick out our majors is because we take what we do well in or what we like doing. I bet if people in other majors tried to take the psych classes I have to take they would not do very well with them because that's just not the way their mind works. Just because you may understand matrices and know the fancy names for the bones of the body does not mean you know how people work.

I will admit that certain classes are harder than others. But that's not the point here. The point is that people degrade other majors which is not cool. I admit that even I've done it but I was thinking about this and now I realize how wrong it is. You say English is easy? Try taking some of those writing classes and realizing how awful your writing is. People don't choose the so-called 'easy' majors because they're lazy; they choose them because that's their passion. I know someone who is an anthropology major and even though she knows how hard it is to find a job with that, she chose it because she likes it and that's the way I think it should be.

Some of the worst people are the ones who are doing pre-health or law or nursing just because they want the high salary. When they complain about how hard their classes are I just think about how much easier it would be for them if they were just doing something they actually enjoyed doing. If they were working towards a goal they truly wanted for themselves besides just for the money, the hard work they were putting in would mean more to them. I'm not saying that salary shouldn't affect your decision of a major, but doing something you hate just to make more money just doesn't seem logical to me.

Sometimes when I tell people that I got good grades for the semester they will say things like "well you are a psych major". Like that means anything? It's not like I didn't have to work hard to get the grades I get. There's no such thing as an 'easy' A unless it's one of those pointless gen ed classes.

The bigger point here is that we each have things that we do well at, we each have different things that we want to do, and we shouldn't be putting each other down for pursuing what makes us happy. (But we can put down the people who are doing something literally just for money those people are the worst [going against my hero Liz Lemon who says graduate students are the worst])

So you science people go on dissecting animals, you math people keep on somehow using both numbers and the Greek alphabet to solve your problems, and I'll just continue on watching people like a stalker

Ranty McRant Rant

One thing that really bothers me is when people complain that nobody likes them. Instead of complaining about it all the time to people who can't make others like you, why don't you just try and do something about it yourself?

Face the reality here, it's not possible for every single person you meet to hate you. Unless you're a criminal or something but hey even then you can find some criminal friends (if that makes you feel better). This is the main reason I get angry/annoyed when people just assume other people won't like them just because they exist or something. If you go in with that attitude, the other person will pick up on it.

For so long I tried to get people's approval of me and what for? I quickly realized they weren't even really people I wanted to hang out with anyways. If someone can't accept me for who I am and how I act then the friendship just won't work. You can try as much as possible to force it to work for as long as you can but in the end it'll just crumble apart.

This is not to say I like the people who have the "this is me so deal with it" attitude. Sometimes we really do have flaws that we need to sort out for ourselves and if we don't recognize it even after people have told us about it, then it'll never go away. It might hurt to hear certain things from friends, but if they really are your friend you should take their criticism and really think about it and if it's valid. The only person who can change you is yourself.

The big thing here I wanted to rant about is how people say "forever alone" all the time and just assume they will never find what they are looking for. There is the possibility that you won't find it, but in the end people can end up having something even better that they didn't even know they wanted in the first place. This is especially so when they aren't really "alone". I know the definition of "forever alone" is supposed to be about having a girlfriend/boyfriend but I can guarantee that 95% or so of the people who constantly say this have people who care about them. It bothers me because they just don't realize the support system they already have and just want more. It makes it seem like the people you currently have just aren't good enough for you.

Just because you might not have a boyfriend/girlfriend it doesn't mean your life is nothing and you should complain about it to the people you already have. Unless your goal is to chase those people away so you truly can use the phrase "forever alone" and mean it.