Media, Culture, and Communications Senior Stunned To Learn His Major Is Just Normal Communications Degree

NEW YORK, NY—Media, Culture, and Communications Senior Dan Hayes is in shock after learning his major is just a regular old BA in communications. Hayes, 22, thought his theory courses on Transnational Media and Interpersonal Communication would help elevate him above the other candidates while searching for a job in New York City.

So far he has been unsuccessful.
“I knew the major was in Steinhardt. At first I was confused about why it’s in Steinhardt, but I figured there was a reason this major existed,” said Mr. Hayes during our interview. Hayes, who can give you three different textbook definitions of the term “propaganda”, hadn’t seen any other degree like “MCC” (as it’s informally called) when applying for colleges four years ago. “I thought oh, media, culture, and communications. That’s like, 3 majors in one degree!”
Hayes applied for a job as a mobile app developer and was asked during the interview if he knew how to link a CSS Stylesheet to HTML code. He was taken aback. “I looked the head developer interviewing me in the eyes and said, ‘I’m sorry what did you say?’ He clearly didn’t understand what my major was”. Hayes says his only real experience in web development was taking a CAS Computer Science course for one week before dropping it and enrolling into MCC’s “History of Dead Media.”
It was during an interview to be the SEO Manager for a Korean Cinema distributer that Hayes was informed by the CEO of the company that the “Media” and “Culture” titles in his degree are essentially expendable. “That CEO (name withheld) came down on me hard. He questioned why I had Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn under ‘experience’. I tried to explain I was an MCC major at NYU, but he informed me that I was in fact just a Communications major on the same playing field as every other applicant.” Hayes’s facial expressions and body language show the senior graduating soon is crushed by the sudden realization. “I should have transferred into Gallatin when I had the chance,” Hayes admits.
Yet, Hayes is attempting to make up for lost time by taking HTML and Dreamweaver classes at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. Hayes’s only complaint is that the computer lab at BMCC is PC only. “Communications is a changing field,” he admits. “It requires a lot of experience, especially with computers. I should have applied for internships instead of working at the Quiksilver store in Times Square for three summers straight.”