OT - "Every Major's Terrible"
My major isn't in here. Does that mean it's not terrible?
My major isn't in here. Does that mean it's not terrible?
Not unless you think the major general listed every last scrap of his knowledge in the song.
This went up yesterday, so of course there are already several recorded versions of it.
I've been listening to these and reading this comic over and over again since I first saw it. I can't stop. It's too good.
You may want to change that link to http://xkcd.com/1052/. That way the link will still point to the right comic after the homepage updates tomorrow.
I was an Econ major. Sexy for overseas where every economy is a disaster and economists are looked at like doctors helping the sick, but near useless here.
Oddly enough... music majors not included.
It's a comic that is meant to be sung, I'm guessing a music major wrote it.
Not necessarily. The beauty of G&S is that their music is generally very simple, which, or so I understand, is often very difficult to compose. It's the play on language that's the most complex, though.
The guy who writes that was a physics major.
I'm just going to teach them to be hunter-gatherers. You can't go wrong with that.
Either that or eBay salespeople. Those people seem to have a lot of fun and can sell the hell out of just about anything.
I felt strangely vindicated at first that "cognitive science" was not specifically called out, but then I assume that is lumped in with "psychology", and therefore is at least better than "social psych". Alternatively, we can look at this from a "degree-result" standpoint - cognitive science undergraduate major somehow equates to a front-line supervision position in a public utility. I probably would have been more successful to date as an "undecided" - the author has a definite point, and making it in the fashion of Gilbert & Sullivan is an awesome touch.
I feel vindicated as an Engineer since we are redirected to.
You even matched the syllables, which sometimes can be hard to do.
I never miss an XKCD. When I read that one I tweeted that our general studies majors should learn this and whip it out whenever somebody disses their majors.
You make it sound like writing words to G and S is difficult
Nerds and college students - yes, this comic has a motley cult
Appeal to guys with too much time to waste - it's quite a strategy
Who else would read sophomoric crap and say "I love XKCD."
in proper meter and rhyme from the original song, with a play on the "you'll say a better major general has never sat a gee" line, and I get a gray-out? way harsh.
Political science and cellular and molecular biology, here. So depending on whether CMB collapses into biology, I'm either fully- or half-unscathed, the second of which is kinda like being scathed.