Is Your LSU Tiger an Interdisciplinary Studies Major?

Have you ever gotten excited when you find out someone else, or even better, thousands of people are thinking the same thing as you are? That happened to me at about 6:30 this morning when I opened up Google Trends to find that "interdisciplinary studies" was the hottest term being searched.

I'm assuming that this term got hot because while watching the LSU vs. Ohio State National Championship game Monday night, there were several LSU players whose names came up on the screen with their major listed as interdisciplinary studies. And I asked rhetorically to a friend, "What is interdisciplinary studies?"

I don't know why college football players' majors are always funny, but they are. And I don't think it's because I think these guys are all dumb or anything, I think it's because I always picture them going to class in full uniform... helmet, shoulder pads, spikes, trying to take notes with a No. 2 pencil, but always breaking it because they're too strong. How can football players succeed as students when they're always breaking their pencils?

Of the 99 players listed on the LSU 2007 roster, here are the names of those that have declared interdisciplinary studies as their major: James Welker, Jonathan Zenon, Harry Coleman, Curtis Taylor, Chris Hawkins, Tremaine Johnson, Glenn Dorsey, Will Arnold, Keith Zinger, Charles Alexander and, my favorite, Marlon Favorite.

I would like to personally congratulate each of these players on their National Championship victory. And for those who are seniors, and are moving past football and on to a career in the interdisciplinaries, I wish them all the best.