Evan Kleiner ’14, undeclared major:
“I think if it’s the most people who are pretentious, that might be chemistry. All the chemistry majors think their major is harder than everyone else’s, which is partly true, I think.”
Ally Gibson ’13, biology major:
“I mean, I feel like it’s easy to single out the philosophy majors because that’s who I’ve had pretentious people in class with.”
Kyle Scott ’12, philosophy major:
“Politics, unquestionably. I think politics is the most pretentious major because, at this age, people are just trying to figure out how to learn; our job is to just be, but instead of being students and encouraging a learning perspective, oftentimes the politics department and the people in it are forced to make opinions left and right before they can develop a sense of learning and wisdom.”
Stephanie Viers ’14, undeclared:
“Environmental studies seems kind of pretentious because everyone is like, ‘Oh, I’m better than you; I know more about saving the Earth and sustainability,’ and they think that they can, like, change the world and that that’s more important than everyone else’s major.”
Chelsea Kern ’13, English major:
“As an English major, I actually think that English is the most pretentious major just because it’s devoted to what humans have produced in their leisure time.”
Katie Haaheim ’13, English major:
“On the surface, philosophy would be the most pretentious of majors because it’s sort of like, ‘I’m going to take this assumption that people deeply care about my conclusions on questions.'”
Carver Marshall ’13, history major:
“I mean, some of the most pretentious people I know about their major are chemistry [majors] because they’re like, ‘Oh, my major is so hard; I spend so much time working on it compared to all you guys that don’t do anything for your majors.’ I guess from my point of view that’d be the most pretentious just because they make it sound the hardest.”