What to do with a Classics Degree
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From the Gothamist: An immigrant from the former Yugoslavia who has worked as a janitor for Columbia University for 20 years has finally earned his bachelor’s degree in classics, with honors. The Daily News reports that while you were concerned with catching up on Boardwalk Empire and content to remain in the same, midlevel job…
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It’s interesting how many authors of juvenile fiction (it seems) have a Classics background … here’s the latest one to keep an eye on, from the Daily Record: MEET writer Daniela Sacerdoti – who has swapped Italy for Scotland to keep our teenagers up all night. The mum-of-two’s new novel – Dreams, a demonic, paranormal…
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Looks like another Classicist got drafted last weekend … an excerpt from the Boston Herald: […] The Dolphins need to do a better job keeping their quarterbacks up, so they took Stanford offensive tackle Jonathan Martin in the second round. They’ll need to coach up University of Miami defensive end Olivier Vernon, whose college production…
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The incipit of a feature in Trinity College Magazine … always fun to read about a Canadian who studied Classics and had subsequent success (he currently is with the Globe and Mail, I believe): John Allemang ’74 is a journalist, rather than someone for whom journalism is a job. His newsroom experiences date back to…
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From a brief item in Boston Globe Magazine: My mom used to read the Greek myths, particularly The Iliad, to me when I was a little girl, and I absolutely loved them. AT BROWN, I MAJORED IN LATIN and Greek, and then I stayed and got my master’s, also in the classics. I had always…
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