Comments on: 5 Reasons to be Proud That You Majored in English http://colleendilen.com/2009/08/21/5-reasons-to-be-proud-that-you-majored-in-english/ Exploring nonprofit marketing, social media and creative engagement in zoos, aquariums and museums Fri, 25 May 2012 03:05:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Huda http://colleendilen.com/2009/08/21/5-reasons-to-be-proud-that-you-majored-in-english/#comment-4153 Sun, 15 Apr 2012 21:03:50 +0000 http://colleendilen.com/?p=437#comment-4153 U r more than welcome ,,in fact,I finished my degree in English , and now I work as a teacher assistant and only one semester is left then I will be having my MA degree in English language too .!

]]> By: colleendilen http://colleendilen.com/2009/08/21/5-reasons-to-be-proud-that-you-majored-in-english/#comment-4152 Sun, 15 Apr 2012 20:39:51 +0000 http://colleendilen.com/?p=437#comment-4152 I’m glad to be of service! Congratulations on your useful degree!

]]> By: huda http://colleendilen.com/2009/08/21/5-reasons-to-be-proud-that-you-majored-in-english/#comment-4149 Sun, 15 Apr 2012 16:58:37 +0000 http://colleendilen.com/?p=437#comment-4149 thank you so much ,I’m non native speaker ,majored in English, I was sort of frustrated about my major but your lines, words make me feel superior
Thumps up
thaaaaaaaaaaanks

]]> By: colleendilen http://colleendilen.com/2009/08/21/5-reasons-to-be-proud-that-you-majored-in-english/#comment-3734 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:45:27 +0000 http://colleendilen.com/?p=437#comment-3734 Hi Alice,

You are exactly right! These skills are nowhere near exclusive to English majors. Folks majoring in other areas also need not feel that their degrees are useless and should also be proud of these skills, to be sure. I am proud to have majored in English- but I’d be proud to have majored in other areas where these skills are harnessed as well.

Thanks for your comment. It’s a good point!

]]> By: alice liu http://colleendilen.com/2009/08/21/5-reasons-to-be-proud-that-you-majored-in-english/#comment-3733 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:01:16 +0000 http://colleendilen.com/?p=437#comment-3733 The thing is that those skills you mentioned aren’t exclusive to english majors, regardless of your major, you have to take gen ed courses in the liberal arts, not to mention you had to take english every year from k-12, that’s already plenty in order to develop strong writing and communication abilities. plus, people can always just read novels/literature on their own time for leisure as a side hobby. also, there are areas where english majors may not be as strong at, such as math/quantitative reasoning, scientific literacy, and objective program solving. if anything, i think a more rounded major would be the likes of economics or even chemistry, since they stress both qualitative and quantitative skills. and remember, english is only one language of many in the world, i think there may be more benefits for a native english speaker to major in a foreign language such as japanese or even russian, so at least you’ll come out of school knowing one more language than the just the one you already knew how to speak.

so where those skills/traits you mentioned are indeed valuable, you don’t have to major in something like english in order to acquire them.

]]> By: A.Y. Siu http://colleendilen.com/2009/08/21/5-reasons-to-be-proud-that-you-majored-in-english/#comment-215 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:20:07 +0000 http://colleendilen.com/?p=437#comment-215 I totally get that it’s easy to peg the English major as a useless major, but I also went to a liberal arts college because I wanted to get an education, not vocational training.

College, for me, wasn’t a way to get career training. It was a way to hone critical thinking skills and connect with peers and future professional colleagues (one of the main benefits of college, regardless of what you major in, is networking with people who get your jobs or leads on jobs). It was also just fun!

Both my wife and I were English majors. I went into it thinking I’d end up an English teacher (which I did for a while), but then ended up working in admissions (and learning a lot about databases in the process, even though I previously hadn’t been much of a computer person). My wife went back to school to learn design and get a “real job.”

I think your list of five things is a great list, and I would never discourage anyone from majoring in English.

]]> By: So you think you can think? « Sea Dreams and Time Machines http://colleendilen.com/2009/08/21/5-reasons-to-be-proud-that-you-majored-in-english/#comment-98 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:06:58 +0000 http://colleendilen.com/?p=437#comment-98 [...] glee of a thousand Napoleonic-era British sailors on hearing their rum ration had been increased.  5 Reasons to be Proud That You Majored in English is a really fun article and has some very entertaining links therein, my favorite being a list of [...]

]]> By: mwinikates http://colleendilen.com/2009/08/21/5-reasons-to-be-proud-that-you-majored-in-english/#comment-97 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:40:59 +0000 http://colleendilen.com/?p=437#comment-97 As a fellow museum educator who was an English major, now working in a science/children’s museum, I say ‘huzzah!’

]]> By: Jackie http://colleendilen.com/2009/08/21/5-reasons-to-be-proud-that-you-majored-in-english/#comment-88 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:59:54 +0000 http://colleendilen.com/?p=437#comment-88 Thanks for the reminder Colleen! Sometimes I wonder if I’ll be able to do anything else with my English degree besides teach!

]]> By: Alex T. http://colleendilen.com/2009/08/21/5-reasons-to-be-proud-that-you-majored-in-english/#comment-85 Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:13:45 +0000 http://colleendilen.com/?p=437#comment-85 Thanks for the mention!

You also have a wonderful blog which I definitely keep tabs on.

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