According to US News, political science is the third most popular major here on the hill. As a political science major myself, I wanted to take this opportunity to explore my fellow majors. I wanted to answer my deep seated questions about my major and who I am. Due to the popularity of this major, I’m sure this is a question many of you hold as well. I seek to answer these questions of identity through asking my fellow majors the age old inquiry: What’s in my bag?

Abigail Saltzman ’20: Political Science

“It’s pretty empty.”

What’s in Abigail’s bag?

• Crumpled up response paper grading rubric
• 3 quarters (that she gave to a friend upon discovering them)
• Crumpled up paper about a philosophical dialogue
• “Lots of pencils and pens and things of that nature”
• Eye drops
• Pill case and pills “that I’m not going to give you the names of if that’s all right with you.”
• Tampons
• Back of a sticker
• Pack of strawberry gum
• Alieve
• Hair tyes (still in the packaging)
• Lense wipes
• Bookstore receipt
• More pens
• Garbage
• Weaver Wednesday card with one hole punch
• Pill cutter
• Chapstip
• Another glasses lense thing
• Scrap sheet of paper she was doodling on
• The Politics of Aristotle
• Journal
• Planner
• Notebook and folder for classical quest
• Envelope that a fosters delivery once came in
• Laptop

 

Margo Minor ’20: Political Science

“So, like you want to know everything that’s in my bag?”

What’s in Margo’s bag?

• Keys
• Econ flamingo game
• 2 chapsticks
• Flashlight
• Purel “The nice bath and body works one”
• A shit ton of pills
• Politics in Russia by Thomas F Remington
• Lilly Pulitzer pencil pouch
• The Rise and Fall of Japan’s LDP by Ellis Krauss and Robert J Pekkanen
• Laptop and two notebooks
• “A few crumpled up papers from I don’t know what…”

 

So, what did I learn from this comprehensive study of my fellow majors? The answer is simple. We have a lot of trash in our bags. I too am plagued by this epidemic. The bottom of my bag is littered with old sticky notes and receipts. If you’re a fellow major who suffers from this tragedy, unique to our kind, know you’re not alone.