The Jock Major

Apparently I need to start copyrighting phrases. Key Notes, one of our a cappella groups here on campus, has an upcoming concert. It's name? "It's Never Sunny in Ithaca." If you'll recall, that's exact title I gave one of my posts this past month. To top it off, a Facebook group has arisen on campus called "Mr. Skorton, Tear Down This Wall!" Again if you'll recall, I ended one of my posts the other week saying "President Skorton, Tear Down This Wall." Either people are copying me (unlikely), or I just beat everyone to the punch. If that's the case, I should probably become a business major and do stock investment. This brings me to my next topic.

I've heard quite frequently that economics (or AEM, here at Cornell) is the jock major. Everyone generally assumes that this is simply because it's the easiest. However, that is by no means the case. Try taking economics as an English major, and see how you fare. With all of those concepts and mathematics you'll be overwhelmed. And your paper-writing and book-reading skills really won't take you far. The fact of the matter is as follows:

Economics is
The jock major because they
Need to know that stuff

Really, it's a hard world out there for an athlete. Without knowledge of economics, you might accidentally take a contract for a measly 1 million dollars a year instead of that 10 million (oh noes!). Or you might mistake your batting average for the amount of money in your bank account. There are just so many numbers in sports and endless ways to mix them up. Which is why they need to major in econ, and why no one else understand it (because it's tailored for jocks so that only they can properly grasp it).