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Walker

Walker

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So, I am currently a junior English major and I hates it.

I am seriously considering switching majors, the problem being that switching would make it so that I have 13 courses remaining for my major instead of 4, which would make it so that either I won't graduate for quite some time, or I won't be able to do all the minors I want to do, namely terrorism studies, Spanish, and creative writing.

Opinions? Advice? Balls-out insanity/stupidity/patronizingity?
 
as much as it blows, the best advice you can get is to figure it out for yourself. i hate hearing it too, but there really is no shortcut. if you end up changing to study something and it ends up going to waste and/or being hated, that's something that should be on your shoulders alone. not to mention nobody knows you better than you. ;)

now that that's out of the way and i can speak guilt free, i can say from personal experience that i switched out of an english major and transferred to journalism. why? because an english major needs to fight to have his work read, and a journalist has it demanded of them. if you're interested in spanish and terrorism studies it may be worth considering. a second language and advanced insight into the events can give you that much desired 'edge'.

inb4 journalism is dying.
it isn't dying, it's making a sloppy transition to being digital just like every other medium on the planet. except porn, they figured out how to use the net admirably fast.
 
I have no desire to do journalism, and I've decided that switching would be counterproductive. Doing so would either set my graduation back hugely or force me to drop terrorism studies and Spanish.

I know, that was pretty damn fast, wasn't it? I'm still a wannabe Coastie. The sooner I graduate the sooner I can try to get into OCS, and from there I can hopefully get all the edumacation I want. A master's in history, or in government and politics, or... well, whatever. After, of course, getting some real-world experience in Coastie-work. Maybe I'll end up making a career of that or maybe I'll get out and go do consulting work.

But no matter that I'd rather be a history major, with the benefit of retrospection. I want to be an English major more than I want to be in school for any longer than is necessary.
 
Sadly, I know of no noun for "patronizing." It was either patronizingness or patronizingity, and -ity kept up with the previously establishedity patternity.

(Note, that last one may be something else entirely.)
 
Walker said:
Sadly, I know of no noun for "patronizing." It was either patronizingness or patronizingity, and -ity kept up with the previously establishedity patternity.

(Note, that last one may be something else entirely.)
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Is the noun not patron?
 
... You know, I have always thought that library patrons were aliens.

I can't tell if Arse is being sarcastic or not, but no, the word "patronize" does not mean "to make someone a patron." The two words are, in fact, completely unrelated except possibly by some arcane etymological shenanigans.

Stupidity is... the state of being stupid. Insanity is the state of being insane. There is no word for the state of being patronizing.
 
I suggest philosophy. You strike me as the kind of person who would excel at that.
 
Walker said:
... You know, I have always thought that library patrons were aliens.

I can't tell if Arse is being sarcastic or not, but no, the word "patronize" does not mean "to make someone a patron." The two words are, in fact, completely unrelated except possibly by some arcane etymological shenanigans.

Stupidity is... the state of being stupid. Insanity is the state of being insane. There is no word for the state of being patronizing.
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To patronise a store is to become it's patron.

But I get what you mean.

pa·tron·iz·a·ble, adjective
pa·tron·i·za·tion, noun
pa·tron·iz·er, noun
re·pa·tron·ize, verb (used with object), -ized, -iz·ing.
trans·pa·tron·ize, verb (used with object), -ized, -iz·ing.
un·pa·tron·iz·a·ble, adjective
well-pa·tron·ized, adjective

Any of those help?
 
There isn't one. I, of course, meant it in the traditional sense of "patron," as a wealthy, upper class sort of person with responsibility for a lower-class client.

Or possibly as a patron of the arts. There's no verb for that, you know.
 
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