Finals are finally here, so you know what that means right?! Gallatin kids get to go home on vacation super early. As if not having work all year round wasn’t enough to make you hate them, your friends in Gallatin always make it home weeks before Christmas while you have to sit in Bobst as the snow falls. So to have a little innocent finals fun, we decided to craft a list of the 50 best Gallatin concentrations (“not majors!”) that people have yet to think of (as far as we know).
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1. Tik Tok: A study of Ke$ha and Artisan Clock Manufacturing
2. Strategery: Politics in the Bush Years
3. Labiaplasty: A Study Through Interpretive Dance
4. Null: The Imaginary and Its Education
5. Mrs. Pacman: Performativity and Gender Politics in Heteronormative Arcade Games
6. Origami
7. Celebrity Culture: How to Like, Get Famous
8. Fortune Cookie Pinata: An Inquiry into Chinese-Mexican Heritage in America as Studied Through Pop-Culture and Food
9. Keyboard Cat Sluts: the Study of YouTube Cat Videos with Concern to Gender Roles
10. Harmonies in the wind: How Para-Sailing Is Like Music
11. ‘minimalism’: the ‘art’ of using single quotation marks and small letters.
12. Trans-species/Non-verbal Communication: As Studied Through Cats and Humans Staring at Each Other (with a concentration in sustainable agriculture)
13. Journalism: But Like The Idea Of It
14. Exotic Feathers, North American Tweets: Ornithologys Influnce on New Media
15. Cunning Linguistics: Public Speaking and Pubic Eating Out.
16, Maddi-ology: Student Contempt at NYU
17. [Insert Major Here]: The Study Of The Typical, Less Interesting American College Experience
18. Wingardium LeviHOsa: Harry Potter Fan Fiction as and the sexual objectification of Emma Watson
19. There’s An App For That: the commercialization of individuality
20. Teleportation
21. Theoretical Genocide
22. Nickelodeon in the 90′s: What Happened?
23. Disney and child stars: What Happens?
24. Water-based Sexuality: Fluidity During College
25. Body Products and You: How our Post Modern World Meditates our Relationships with our Body
26. Textiles and Cherubic Imagery: Pre-Industrial Kanyaic Fixations
27. Mo Money Mo Problems: Comparative Hip Hop Economics
28. Cheeto Dusted Fingertips: A Study of Being Stuck in Adolescence
29. Play Freebird!: An Examination of Rock History and Douchebags in The Crowd
30. Pancakes and Their Metaphysical Implications: With a Focus in Syrup
31. 5 Buck Chuck: the Economic Implications of Trader Joe’s Wine Shop on My Wallet
32. Pacifying Poultry: Negotiating a lasting peace for Angry Birds
33. Blue Steel: Modeling in the Industrial Revolution
34. i am teh haxx0rz lolz n00bz: Translating and Understanding The Language of Gamers
35. Scarves: the Art of Draping Things Around Your Neck
36. Save the Trees, The Musical: Environmental Studies with Extreme Emphasis on Musical theatre
37. Politics of Pandora: Study of The Tribal Government in “Avatar” and the Blue Boobies too
38. Flip Cam Cinema: Making Short Movies with Shorter Cameras
39. Gchat Etiquette: the Common Courtesy That You “totes” Need To Know
40. Tartans and the U.S.: Why do only some states and cities have their own tartan patterns?
41. The Money Shot: Fashion Documentary for Profit
42. Julian Assange Studies: Condemning Governments and Having Sex Without Condoms
43. Bratz Dolls: Developmental Psychology Through the Lens of Materialism
44. The Art of Surprise
45. Nicki Minaj: Being A Motha’ Fuckin’ Monsta’ and Having a Giant Ass
46. CAS: Understanding Your Uncreative Peers
47. Febreze: Covering Up Bad Smells
48. The Breakfast Club: Cooking Oats and 80′s Rom-Coms
49. We Didn’t Start The Fire: Starting Minor But Still Inconvenient Fires In NYU Academic Buildings
50. Poor People Stuff
totally loling over the possible concentrations (DEF NOT MAJORS NO WAY – you nailed that). However, Gallatin students take classes in all schools within NYU – Stern, Steinhardt, CAS, Tisch, etc. So actually, our semester-long workload and pre-Christmas finals schedule is similar to any other school. Additionally, Gallatin interdisciplinary seminars are some of the most writing- and reading-heavy in all the NYU land, giving us massive amounts of work.
We are definitely pretentious, weird, creative, & totally in lust with our program and telling everyone so. But for many of Gallatin students, we are in bobst crying over OUR friends getting to go home for Christmas super early – whether they are in CAS, Steinhardt, Tisch, Gallatin, or whatever.
RealEdutik- A Machiavellian approach to finding a school’s program of study that can be completed without work or learning, for a little less that 50k a year.
^ cool story, srebro
If you’re a strategic Gallatin kid like me, you’re already done with finals. See ya next year, suckas!
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“…Pubic Eating Out.”
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^ “like”…..although I type this from California, so maybe you have a point
Try taking a Gallatin interdisciplinary seminar and you wouldn’t be laughing at the mounds of reading, writing, and discussion required to pass. Yes, Gallatin is home to some ridiculous sounding concentrations (which are great to parody), but ultimately the students care enough about their education to articulate and intertwine their unique interests. I think it’s a lot easier to “glide” through college with your major or department telling you what to think and study. Just my two cents as a biased Gallatin alum.
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NYU Local — Have you met a Gallatin student? Are you simply jealous because we have it all, while you are stuck in a class called “Anthropology 101″?
It’s okay. I sympathize with you. Luckily, you CAN transfer. And you brilliant enough to come up with 50 concentrations– which means, you are well on your way to being a Gallatin student yourself.
PS:
I work two jobs, I have an internship, a 3.9 GPA, I’m on the Dean’s Honor Society, I’m also on the Undergraduate Research Journal Panel, I’m on the Senior Symposium Committee, etc.
I’ll also be at Bobst– probably on the 6th floor. Come find me, and maybe we’ll hit it off. Or maybe I’ll just edit your paper for you?
Sincerely,
Meghan
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@Egle Makaraite It is a play on words. Notice the “cunning linguistics.” Say cunning linguist out loud, and it sounds exactly like….
I’m sure you can figure it out.