English Majors, the Odd Stepchild

Lowbrow is to Highbrow as Popular is to obscure.
Lowbrow : Highbrow :: Popular : Obscure.



Lowbrow is everything we all want to see, and have seen, as well as the trashy/cheesy stuff we have seen, and wish we hadn't seen, but have seen it because everyone else has seen it, and we want to be somewhat in that loop of lowbrowness.

Whereas highbrow could be all that stuff we desire to know about, but can't seem to find it on our radar because it is so obscure and so underplayed that no one not even Professor Sexson knows about. Now who am I kidding when I say that Professor Sexson doesn't know something. He is the low and the highbrow of MSU.

As English majors we look for the highbrow because it makes us well versed in literature. We look for the odd stepchild book because we too feel as though we are that stepchild in a sea of Business, Psychology, Engineering, and Agriculture majors. We need the obscure and the less known to define our individuality. But we also look for the lowbrow, because if we want to succeed we must be up to date with what is new and exciting, as well as classic and a must read. English majors, we have the most diverse major of all! We have the whole world in our hands! Now all we need is to harness our low and highbrows and use them for the good of our fellow literature lovers, bring the obscure into the population and bring the population to the obscure.

~L.