The actual number of majors you have to declare and drop before you end up with Anthro

Choosing a major is an important decision most of us college students make before entering our sophomore year. However, if you’re anthropology, odds are, you made this decision the day a major declaration was due. You came into college thinking you would major in biology, but something about spending 3 hours looking at worms every week made you think ‘this isn’t for me’. You considered NBB but being surrounded by pre-meds failing ochem every day drew you off. The logical next step is to declare psychology, and so you did but after entering the PAIS building and getting a whiff of that retched “no one invests in this department” stench, you knew you deserved better. 

After declaring and dropping Biology, NBB and psychology, you start panicking. Your chem major friends are getting published, your polisci friends already have an exec board position on Emory Dems and your Bschool friends have already cut you out of their lives. You stop scrolling through Instagram and start scrolling through the list of majors at Emory College. You’re the kind of person that works hard, but doesn’t do the most so you open up that website and feast your eyes on the first major you see; “Anthropology”. It’s love at first sight. You have no clue what it is, but oh how beautiful it sounds. “Anthropology…” what a familiar yet totally unknown word, you must know more. After researching for a total of 5 minutes and realising anthropology means anything you want it to, you’re ready to take the world by storm and make one of the few decisions you’ve ever made in your life. 

The thing is you likely want to pursue grad school so when it comes to your major, you just hope you pick one that gets you where you need to go. Anthropology just happens to be the stepping stone you need for that delicious Emory Med, Harvard Law, or NYU Tisch school of the arts acceptance letter. The only problem is when someone brave enough says “… what even is anthro?” You’re going to actually have to know. It’s tough because your last semester consisted of a neuroanatomy class, one on shipwrecks and one on opossums, but you’ll develop a strategy to field off this question soon enough.