10. History graduates get jobs in many different industries. (Coffee, groceries, infantry...)
9. Unlike the living, the dead don't get mad at you for gossiping about them.
8. Think of how fascinated your friends will be when you point out all the historical errors in Gladiator!
7. If we know the mistakes of the past, we can make more original ones in the future.
6. Why watch the HBO special when you can piece together the same story from dusty archival materials?
5. Even though no one will ever read your book, just having been published is totally worth the years of work.
4. People will have more incentive to emulate their heroes when they discover they had affairs and did drugs.
3. Sure, the money's better in fiction writing. But it's not as much of a challenge.
2. If you really make it big, you might get to be in a documentary some day.
And the number 1 reason to major in history is,
1. Learning about the careers of historical people will help you decide what to study when you go back to school!
3 comments:
You forgot the most obvious.
Chicks dig it.
If only! :-)
I don't know about chics, but mom loves these funny reasons.
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