You're Asian, you must be smart, right?

Some people give me weird looks when I say I want to be a Philosophy major. Other people quite obviously have very little respect for the major, and there are also those who don't give a damn either way. Not to say there aren't those who support me and think it's cool, I just happen to be talking about everyone else at this point. I wonder though, how many people actually know what it means and what it involves to pursue a major in Philosophy. It's not as though I spend all my time speciously wondering about "Life, the Universe, and Everything". While some people think Philosophy seems flighty and "a lot of people doing a lot of talking, but little of anything else", it's really quite something else. I suppose it's for just that reason I like it so much, there's so much room within the major that I could study many, many things. Unsurprisingly, that's also my reason for studying Electrical Engineering. Anyway, Philosophy has many different subjects to study, and no matter what path you take, there will be work involved. Philosophy is probably most similar to a Comparative Literature major, (I would say English, but English majors deal with just that, English). Comp Lit majors need to be able to read and comprehend well, and need to be able to write and express ideas coherently. This is also exactly what Philo majors need, the two majors just happen to write about different things. Blech, enough of my ranting though, late night insomnia + clear night skies that bring up moments long past = this post and then some.