the symptoms.

You know you're an English major if

1. You've been the grammar police since you learned what grammar is.
2. You know the difference between imminent and eminent.
3. You have the online Oxford English Dictionary bookmarked on your toolbar.
4. Your professor makes a Keats reference and you instantly check his left hand to see if he's married.
5. Someone confuses Dickinson with Dickens and you just want to slam your forehead repeatedly on your desk.
6. You're the only person in the room who laughs when someone makes a pun in normal conversation.
7. You can talk about the same book with your friend for 2 solid hours. Long after class has let out. 
8. You believe in "word economy" but secretly hate it, because when there exists a plethora of words, expressions, and figures of speech so readily at one's disposal, the only patent recourse is to thoroughly exhaust them all, assuming, of course, that you maintain a significant degree of unity and coherence, as well as remain true to one's original intent of meaning.
9. You don't need Spell Check. You use knowledge. 
10. You understand that Jane Austen is a necessary component to one's education.
11. You cry when someone tells you that the people in Anna Karenina aren't actually real.
12. You knew that there were 2 versions of Frankenstein. Which one is better? Both of them.
13. You can interpret something nobody else can make sense of.


Moral of the Story: Nerdy is the new normal.