more Hellhounds, about or spoken by Ronny

[Achebe]

Allusion might be one of the main reasons more people don't read poetry. They feel they have to read everything in the world before they can understand one poem.

Yes. I feel this. Whether it should be that way, I couldn't say.

I'm educated, just in all the wrong things. I was a double major in uni (psychology and religion & theology) with a minor in social work. Then I pursued my master's in counseling psychology. I got through two years, then hit a major depressive episode and dropped out. My glorious brain is always fucking up my shit.

Anyway, that all to say, that most of my friends majored in the arts or in literature or something else interesting. I've wasted my life getting degrees that I can't use because my brain has cooties.

I hope that I satisfactorily hijacked your thread for my ill-planned overshare

But...what's majoring in literature got to do with being well read? Most lit majors are narrowly educated. They'd have read Shakespeare but not Dante in the original. Or Dante but not Li Po. Or Li Po but not Kalidasa. Paradise Lost but not the Illiad. The Illiad but not the Edda. 
And very few of them will have solved a differential equation.
Ultimately, what you study is irrelevant.