Evelyn M: A Confession of the Scam I Have Been Pulling All Semester

Hello. This blog post has two points: 1. To clear my conscious and have you all tell me that what I did wasn't that bad and 2. To discuss the stigma against certain majors

I am here to come clean about a miscommunication that turned into a major lie that turned into like mild identity fraud. BUCKLE UP LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.

SO, on the first day of my capstone class (Entrepreneurial Growth Strategy for Technology Ventures), everyone in the class introduced themselves and were thus sorted into groups for the entirety of the semester based on various skills — i.e. a finance person, a marketing person, etc.

In my introduction, I said the TRUTH, that I was a Business major, this class was my capstone, and that I was an English minor who was looking to get into publishing post-grad. Having an English minor seems pretty rare in D'Amore McKim so my professor (KEVIN) immediately grasped onto this and turned it into my whole personality.

Over the next few weeks, it became apparent that he had forgotten I was an English minor, and instead thought I was a full-blown English major who had stumbled into his class.  The first few times, I corrected him — as he would comment, "Ah! My English major!" whenever I raised my hand — but ultimately I gave up and just accepted this as my new identity. Whatever, right?

WELL, it soon became apparent that because he thought I was an English major in a 4000 level Business class, he was exceptionally impressed whenever I did something correctly. Like, condescendingly amazingly impressed. I was the person in our group to give our Midterm presentation, and when I said the phrase "First-mover advantage," Kevin literally stood up and clapped for me, announcing to the class: "AN ENGLISH MAJOR DID THIS! INCREDIBLE!"

....And it was obvious I was getting better grades because of this.... Kevin truly dropped his expectations of me to the FLOOR and so whenever I did anything mildly correct, I would get a 100%. And this has continued all the way to the final. In EVERY SINGLE CLASS he mentions that I'm an English major. What's a girl to do??

At this point I'm like, Yeah, Ok, I LIED! and Im benefitting from it! But isn't a lie of omission not quite the same?? And also, doesn't Kevin kinda deserve it?? He obviously believes English majors have the IQ of like 17 and is just throwing me a bone, so EXCUSE me for taking it!!!

So, what's the verdict?? Should I come clean during my final class?? Do I make a speech about English majors and stand on the table and deliver it? Do I take this secret (And an A in the class) to my grave?! IS THIS FRAUD?!?!?!?