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[bedlamsbard]

I don't know if it's reassuring or depressing to have a conversation with another senior classics major where the general conclusion is, "Fucking Classics, man, why the fuck do we love this when it hates us?" (In other words: we are in the same boat, in terms of preparation and general ability to get into grad school, except he has more Latin than I do. But he still feels screwed.)

Reassuring, actually. And that's kind of depressing.

Anyway, I have classes for next semester! Or I do for now, anyway; I'll probably drop one when I register for my thesis and I'm hoping that I end up with a public service internship instead of a public service class, but for now:

LATN 3030: Ovid
GREK 1020: Intermediate Greek
CLAS 3090: Law & Society in Ancient Rome (w/ public service)
HISE 6330: Imperial Spain 1469-1659
ENLS 4490: Middle English Mystics

My usual mix of classics and MEMS stuff. *hands* (Because I can't make up my mind, even when I can.)

Comments

[delfinnium]

You love the subject, that much is clear. *hugs* I cannot help but keep thinking WHY would anyone do it, because I'm not sure of the justification of why people do classics or history or anything, other than that all information is intrinsically useful, and if you don't know what history is , you're bound to repeat it and all that.

Unfortunately such arguments don't hold traction with the sort of people who think hard sciences or life sciences is infinitely more useful and lucrative, or even business and earning big bucks.

... then again, I've had my own field attacked because why the fuck would anyone want to do basic or even behavioural ecology, when there is so much more lucrative things out there to do like medicine?

Uh.

That is to say, I'm not sure that I personally would like what you're doing, but you love it so keep doing it! Also, it makes for some fucking awesome Narnia fic because your fic is THE fic I read when I want to read about some seriously grounded, seriously realistic well thought out medieval-universe type fic. Heck, you manage to distinguish different cultures across countries and across history, all in the same world and time and *flails*

The writer in me flails just because of that world-building ability of yours.

[bedlamsbard]

Because it's fun. Strangely, that argument doesn't hold traction even with people in the department, though. They want reasons.

In my experience, the absolute worst are business students, specifically accounting students. I'm sure that there are accountants that aren't complete assholes about how superior they are to the rest of the universe, but they seem to be few and far between -- I know a lot of accounting students, and lived with two of them last year. Minnesota once told me, to my face, that she would never pay for her child to go to university and be a liberal arts major. Science majors tend to be much more reasonable.