14 Things All Communication Majors Understand

"No, I don't want to be a TV news anchor."

1. Explaining the difference between communication and communicationS.

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Pro tip: Communication is the general study of how we communicate and communicationS is the study of mass media (TV, radio, etc.).

2. SO. MANY. PAPERS. TO. WRITE.

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3. Listening to your science major friends complaining about their one paper of the semester.

"Wow, a three page paper...that's so long..."

4. Taking a theory class and having no idea what's going on.

"Can I just go back to my Social Media Management class now?"

5. Group work. SO MUCH GROUP WORK.

6. Getting to take classes that literally teach you how to become Twitter famous.

7. You sometimes need an endless amount of pizza in order to crank out your papers.

8. Getting really excited about taking a film analysis class, then realizing it's not what you thought it would be.

"A class all about movies? Sign me up!"

9. That moment when you get a lower grade than you expected on a paper.

10. Course names so long that sometimes you don't even know what the class is about.

"Communication in Rural Communities with Homogenous Species of Felines Using Social Media and Film Analysis"

11. Your friends asking you to edit their papers.

12. All your professors either look like this...

13. Or this. There is no in between.

14. When you have a class with one of your comm major friends.