I am not an English major

I once heard a piece of an interview on NPR (seems I hear lots of pieces of shows on NPR since I only listen to it in the truck) with Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet Laureate, and now Poet Laureate of New York. He said, "If you're majoring in English, you're majoring in death." Reading over the last few posts, I can see I'm going to have to lighten up or people are going to think I'm an English major.