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  1. Sep 2025
    1. Find better jokes and new friends, stopcomplaining about the major you chose for yourself, and don'tworry about students who are (if nothing else) at least taking thejobs that you don't want.

      Is this meant more to make us laugh, or to leave us thinking?

    2. Singh said this stereotype is partially true. However, it also dependson the amount of credits a student is taking or how much work theyare putting into their own college experience.View this post on Instagram

      **It's interesting how Singh admits to that there some truth to these stereotypes **

    3. Wu plays the viola, an instrument that other musicians joke is justfor students who are not good enough to play the violin

      **This Suprises me because of how students can even hold judgement towards their peers in the same major as them. **

    4. While people may not actually believe that other students' majorsare worse than theirs, some students talk down to others to dealwith the challenges they are facing in their own classes

      This shows a rhetorical appeal (logos) because it explains the real reason behind stereotyping in a logical way.

    5. Besides, some of us have actual, important homework to get to —like trying to trace letters of the alphabet or finding good InstagramReels for our opinion articles

      Ends with playfully to remind readers stereotypes aren’t serious and to make the article memorable. Setting the tone of sarcastic and funny

    6. We should stop these stereotypes and jokes as they can affectsomeone's point of view about their own life path and make themthink twice before choosing the passion they look forward to,"Singh wrote in an email.

      The author is addressing this specific text because the audience it is addressing is directly to college students who are choosing or defending their majors.

    7. "Don't get me wrong, it is a hard major," Sanchez said. "But everymajor is hard and has its own challenges."

      *This could be an example of pathos because it sets a tone of being balanced, fair-minded. It softens the stereotype argument by recognizing difficulty across fields. *

    8. Often, stereotypes about other majors stem from the assumptionthat some students put in more effort and care to their studies thanothers and that academic difficulty equates to more value.

      One of the main points to the key claim, it explains why stereotypes happen.

    9. "It's likeany other therapy, but using music, and just by nature of it beingmusic versus some sort of science doesn't make it any lessimportant."

      This is ethos because she’s defending her major with logic and her own credibility. That music therapy is just as legit as any other therapy, even if it’s not “science.”