DO ANY OTHER ENGLISH MAJORS OR BOOK LOVERS JUST GET SO OVERWHELMED BY HOW MANY BOOKS ARE OUT THERE THAT YOU HAVEN’T READ AND WANT TO?!!!!??!?!

I LITERALLY CANNOT HANDLE IT SOMETIMES

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“The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty and if she is not, the mob pouts and asks querulously, "What else are women for?”

—W. E. B. Du Bois, Darkwater: Voices From Within the Veil

An English Major's Guide To Dealing With Problems

  • Read a book relevant to your problem
  • Write a poem about it
  • Cry because your poem is terrible
  • Write a rant
  • Read another book

i just saw a tweet that said “i want a guy like gatsby”

CLEARLY YOU HAVE NOT BEEN PAYING ATTENTION

I hate it when I don't have enough space on my bookshelf for more books.

And by hate, I mean love. 

do you ever listen to a person and just know that every word out of their mouth was spelled wrong

English Major Problem #192: Trying desperately to remember a particular word that you refuse to use a substitute for, failing, and then finally remembering the word. in the middle of the night. while sleeping.

  • me: *writes 8 words of paper*
  • me: *makes a tumblr post about how i wrote only 8 words and keep getting distracted by tumblr*

It’s 2013, and I still can’t italicize book titles in text messages.

When English majors live together, conversation before bed often includes the use of MLA formatting in citations. Also we both know all of the best sources for information on this topic. MLA all day.

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