| You Might Be A BC English major If (cont'd) |
| - You can't listen to The Police sing Roxanne without thinking of William DeFoe - You have ever compared James Fennimore Cooper and Geoffery Chaucer to Mark Twain and found yourself making sense - Your children will be named after writers and characters from American literature - You can pronounce Carew and Chingachgook - You know for a fact that your professor did not read your final - You don't even need to use the card catalog at the library to find your books - You know that when you drop a stone in a body of water, it doesn't just sink - You finally got to the end of Howards End - You NEVER want to live in Dublin - You're smarter than Alex Trebek - You have a friend (or ARE that friend!) who knows where to find the sperm chapter of Moby Dick - You know why Melville reminds you of Whitman - You are aware that there is no whale named Pinnochio - "It was a nice book. I liked it." - You've tried to make connections between the Hindu God Kali and technology - You have a non-required summer reading list - Your professors gossip just as much, if not more, than you do - You've slept in 3 or more buildings at ODU - To you, libraries are like certain body parts: the bigger the better! - You know that the secret is that invisible people don't cast shadows - You come to class late, leave early and cause a ruckus in between - You own one of those little notebooks that you carry everywhere - You've taken notes on one of your own presentations - At least one of your friends is a "slob" - You've sat at a gas station in Roanoke waiting for a reciept for over thirty minutes - You've ever contemplated running down the street in the rain - naked - You write and recieve at least 80 emails a week from other majors about literature - Winesburg, Ohio, is the LAST place you'd ever want to visit - You try to convince people to write abstracts with you - You've dressed up like a literary figure for Halloween and found that only a few certain people understood who/what you were - Your assignment this semester is to write and complete an entire book - You know the value of communication thanks to Anderson and Burroughs - One of your main goals in class is to change the subject - A friend's bad writing has made you so frustrated you re-wrote the paper yourself - Your science professor told you your paper was "too analytical" - You refer to your books as your "library" - You know better than to have the same ideas as someone else - You know Rose Nyland wasn't the only one with strange stories - Your professor once called someone in your class vindictive to their face - You decide your Senior year that you hate your major - If two people skip class, only half of the class remains - You know that if your life is a mess, you clean your house - Your professor has ever called one of your friends (or you) vindictive - You know that translation is not plagarism - Your know what "furan" and "purjace" mean - You know where The Little Karro is - You know who Ian, Anna, Nicholas, Christopher and Zachary are - You have a theory as to how/why Lawrence killed Mansfield - You get As on papers and don't know why - If there was a burning building and you could save either the people inside or the last known editions of Shakepseare plays, a lot of people would die, but we'd still have drama! |