At UC Berkeley, in the late '90s, I majored in English with a concentration on gender and sexuality.

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It took me four years of college and about a thousand papers, pop quizzes, multiple choice tests, mid-term exams, finals, a handful of art projects and one thesis to determine exactly what I should have majored in.

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