Guerrilla Project Thoughts

When we started reading that Guerrilla Art Kit I thought it was going to be pretty easy to find a guerrilla art project for us to do. However, once we got into the classroom and started brainstorming it became very clear that this was going to be a bit of a challenge. As we were going through project ideas it seemed like some people wanted to take the easy way out and talk about something broad and others wanted to talk about things that have been beaten to death around campus. I wanted to do something that meant something to us and actually put out a message that we cared about and wanted known. That's when I started thinking about English majors and how much grief we have received for deciding to major in something we love. That's when I thought about putting up english related articles and pictures all over science buildings so that way we bring attention to the importance of english majors while in a science environment. I definitely think the STEM majors are important and they will help the progress of our culture, but the humanities help people keep their humanity in the midst of all this scientific progress. It's easy to think with logic, but it's a bit harder to think with your logic and feelings. Humanities gives people the ability to have a nice balance between logic and emotions. I don't want this project to be a bashing of the STEM majors because I think it's incredible the things they can do and explain with simple mathematical equations. I just want STEM majors and even the government to stop thinking that the humanities are a useless degree and that we are going to be in debt for the rest of our lives or that we can only become teachers. I'm just tired of the closed mindedness of people. I want everyone to know that humanities majors stand right up next to scientific development and honestly the two have worked side by side for a very long time. It wasn't until education became so narrow that humanities and STEMs stopped working with each other. Great artists were also great mathematicians. It's hard following your dream of majoring in something that makes you happy and having your family and friends look at you and say oh your major is easy or I bet you have so much free time or how I would love to just lay around and read literature. It's a hard major just like every major is hard. Once you get past the general education classes and into classes that make you critically think then you start to see the importance of a humanities major. I didn't mean to rant because you're an english professor so you know all of this, but this is what I want to get out of this project and start a conversation about the two colleges working together to produce some amazing things.