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Most of us have had the 'what are you studying?' conversation, so much so that it has become a rehearsed dance where you get the same responses over and over again. Twitter user @hannahleidazle decided to poke fun at these groan-worthy conversations with the "what's your major" thread which has since evolved into "what's your degree in." In the viral hashtag thread, people have sarcastic fake conversations that answer questions about their college degrees, however, if you read some of them you'll see there is a little too much truth so you know some of them are based on real interactions. Scroll down to read these hilarious back-and-forths and maybe you'll even see a relateable convo about your major. Don't forget to upvote your favs!

The old college track of four years seems to be an outdated mindset. According to Pew Research only about 56% of students ear degrees within six years. The completion rate showed that students who started at a four-year, private, non-profit school had the highest completion rates at (72.9% and students who started at two-year public institutions had the lowest completion rates at only 39.9%.

Choosing what you want to study can be a difficult choice but it turns out that business degrees are the most common major, according to research. Business has managed to hold on to this title since 1980 and before that education majors held the lead. The other most popular majors are health profession programs, social sciences and history, Psychology and Biological and biomedical sciences. On the flip side the least common bachelor degree was in library science.

While there is overwhelming proof that college graduates have better job prospects, not all majors are created equal when it comes to securing a degree after graduation. According to U.S news outlet the degrees with the best job prospects are mechatronics engineering, business, computer science, data science, cognitive science, nursing. pharmaceutical sciences and human resources. Four in five undergraduates choose their major based on its job outlook.

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You might be shocked to find out that one study showed some of the highest-paying post grad majors reported some of the highest amounts of relaxation time in college. In the survey the researchers measured computer time as down time which might explain why software engineering and computer science held the top two spots. The other most relaxing majors included astronomy, public relations and advertising, economics, marketing, zoology, materials engineering and physics.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’m a clinical psychologist in private practice: most people ask where my couch is

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

'So you spend all the time playing with dolphins?' 'No i mostly study the sea currents and disect dead animals to study their parasites' '....'

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Physics and astronomy may be the majors with the most downtime but they still made the list of the most difficult majors you could choose for your college career. The hardest majors in order are architecture, chemical engineering, aeronautical and astronautical engineering, biomedical engineering, cell and molecular biology, physics, astronomy, biochemistry, bio-engineering and petroleum engineering.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They're right about one thing though, studying meteors does sound cool.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Actually this is great and they are wrong! Dead languages keep a lot of mistery in them and they are the beggining of modern literature. Same goes with Ancient history, first society, first goverments, ancient science and etc. So your degree is exploration!

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Teachers get paid a really ridiculously tiny amount of money, considering the amount of work they have to do both during and after working hours

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Up to this day all the "president"'s golfing trips have cost the taxpayer 100 million US Dollars . August 2016 ""I'm going to be working for you. I'm not going to have time to go play golf."

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've always said and strongly believe that teachers and cops are very under paid. I have friends and family in both professions. I can't believe the amount of work teachers have to bring home to catch up. I mean teachers are only educating our children and preparing our future generations and cops are only risking their lives to keep us and our communities safe, so yea, they don't need to get paid much money. What logic is this!?!

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I went back to school to become a teacher. When I tell people I'm in college at 30 and majoring in education they go, "Why would you take a pay cut and become a teacher?" It's infuriating.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I feel this applies to almost every education degree, unless you have one in a really in demand subject/grade level in a state that pays really well, which rarely happens. Usually the ones most in demand are in very low income areas.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember family and friends sitting around the kitchen table in the late 1940s talking about things like teachers not getting paid enough.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sucks to be American. Yay my country and being able to rent an appartment by yourself on teaching wages, woo!

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I really don't see that the same way. At first teachers get paid next to nothing when you figure in education expenses. Take my family for example my dad was a janitor for a elementary school 15 years later my aunt starts at that school and she didn't meet his pay for 5 years. She's been there 23 years now and makes 180k a year. But at the cost of several masters. Where my dad retired after 35 years he was making just shy of 85 grand a year. It's like any other job. They want to see if you work out first. Your not going to start at top rate with no experience. And another factor is school funding. You can't pay with funds you don't have or you'll go in the hole

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ha ha, elementary is not a school term in my country, so my first thought was studies of Sherlock Holmes :P

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It is true that teachers don't get payed much, but that is offensive.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Because teachers in the US get paid next to nothing and get hardly any funds to do their job so they end up spending their own money on things to use in their classroom.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The "Hank (yes, I'm working on a sequel) Green" part is even funnier than the tweet. :D

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

One of my coworkers told me how she had a math teacher in high school that told her she could always fall back on Math. She majored in English and now is a high school Math teacher.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Takes the pen, pulls up a sheet of paper: "sure, but before, I need your signature here to prove that you'll take it seriously. Uhm....ok, can I get the pen back to sign it? Sure, 5$."

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Good way to shut people up on the small talk.....think I might just start saying that for fun.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Heh. Fine Arts here. Same response. Or my personal favorite "better get used to asking people if they want fries with that." *cries quietly in corner*

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Some great conspiracy theory by the government, to match the fake idea that the earth is round... " 😒

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