My dream is to become a published author!

“The first real benefit to studying English at a university level is that it trains you in dealing with language as a medium of power, more than just being something transparent that carries information. When you study English, you will be better equipped to see the nuances in politics and rhetoric. Someone trained in English is often better at noticing not just what is being said, but what a text is trying to make possible, normalise, excuse, or conceal,” Lamara says.

She explains that she has always been inclined to the humanities, especially literature. The next goal after completing her undergraduate degree is to take a master’s degree at the Department of English. Time will show what happens after that; pursuing a career in publishing, including authorship, is not unlikely.

“English equips you with a very handy tool kit, you will acquire skills that enable you to synthesize large amounts of qualitative information into coherent judgments, which is suitable for many career directions. The strongest employment argument for English, however, is not that it leads directly to one profession.,” Lamara says. Instead, studying English opens up a wide range of professional avenues.

She underlines that the value of English studies is that it prepares people for fields where success depends on analysis of language, narrative, audience, and complexity, such as: publishing, journalism, law, education, policy, communications, marketing, UX writing, consulting, diplomacy, cultural institutions, nonprofit work, and increasingly roles involving AI governance, content strategy, and knowledge work.

“Above all, you will learn critical thinking and historical consciousness. You might not be able to understand other consciousnesses fully, but you can understand their perspective,” she says. Lamara also emphasizes the importance of cultural understanding, which forces you to confront your own biases and perceptions. It increases your empathy, but also your discomfort, and teaches you how to look at things from other perspectives.

Lamara explains that studies in English make the assumption that words simply carry information harder to maintain. You begin to see how tone, framing, genre, metaphor, omission, citation, and narrative structure shape what counts as common sense. That matters far beyond literature. Institutions run on documents. Politics runs on rhetoric. Law runs on interpretation. Media runs on framing. Corporate life runs on memos, pitches, reports, branding, and internal narratives.

“Thus, you become more resistant to slogans, prestige language, managerial euphemism and so on,” Lamara says. She explains that you will notice when a sentence sounds precise but is actually evasive. “You notice when something is presented as neutral that is really ideological,” Lamara says.