I was an English major.

I was an English major in college!

I read good. I was an English major.

I was an English major, and I always wrote poems.

I did try to go to college and try to be an English major.

Being an English major prepares you for impersonating authority.

I was an English major at Brown. I never enjoyed history classes.

I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

I was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories.

I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.

The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.

She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.

When I barely got into college, the one thing I could do was write, so I became an English major.

As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.

I used to write a lot of songs. I was an English major in college. I was a deluded poet for a year. Totally deluded.

I was an English major in college, so I really liked spoken word and poetry; it was what I did before I wrote music.

I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.

In the beginning of college I wanted to be an English major, but then I became interested in international relations.

I was an English major at Yale, but I did do undergraduate theater there. And I went to the graduate school for acting.

Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers.

I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time.

I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.

I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing apart texts and trying to find the hidden secrets and the subtexts in there.

I ended up doing four or five plays in college and being an English major with my thesis in language acquisition, which I was planning to study in graduate school.

I do tend to be an analyzer. I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing apart texts and trying to find the hidden secrets and the subtexts in there.

I never got any training in how to write novels as an English major at Oberlin, but I got some great training for writing novels from anthropology and from Margaret Mead.

I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou speak at school last year was one of the best moments Stanford, at least, intellectually, had to offer.

I didn't fit the typical profile of a trader. I was an English major working on a novel at night. Most everyone else was a maths or economics major; most everyone else had relatives or family in banking.

I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine.

I was an English major in college who concentrated in African-American literature and culture. So I read quite a few slave narratives and stories of escape, and I grew up in Ohio, which was a common stop on the Underground Railroad.

I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.

When I was a kid, I really wanted to be a writer and an artist when I grew up. So in college, I was an English major, and then I became a fine artist. But when I arrived in San Francisco in 1995, I figured I could leverage my artistic skills by becoming a Web designer and programmer.

Not Shakespeare. In college I took a Shakespeare class because I was an English major, and they had a Summer program called Shakespeare at Winedale, which is out in the German Hill country in Texas , where you go out and live for two months and then you perform three plays at the end of that time.

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