What to do with a Classics Degree
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We’ll start with the tweet (thanks Sylvia!): https://twitter.com/#!/ClassicBookworm/status/94228196970606592 … and then we might as well include the incipit of the post from the Gmailblog to have it on record in case it moves: In this month’s Faces of Gmail we’re profiling Sarah Price, our history-loving, lindy-hopping community manager. What do you do on the Gmail…
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Just came across this while looking for something for my kid … Colby Devitt (Classics Major!) talks about how Helene Foley talked her into going after a grant to direct a drama in Greek and all that was involved: … this has ‘What to do with a Classics degree’ potential too …
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From Charlotte Higgins, inter alia: Asked about connections between his education and his current role, he replied: “MI5 needs people with good intellectual skills, the ability to spot connections, the ability to absorb and assess a variety of material. Natural ground for a classicist.” He added: “There has been something of a classical tradition in…
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One of the potential ‘career areas’ I don’t think we stress enough in the Classics world is conservation, so here’s a piece from UD Daily wherein a student describes her experiences: This summer I am working in the conservation lab at the archaeological site of Poggio Colla in the Mugello Valley of Tuscany, Italy. Poggio…
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The incipit and a bit of an item in the Guardian: As experts warn the ongoing cuts in the public sector could result in record levels of graduate unemployment; despondent graduate jobseekers may find comfort in the words of Friedrich Nietzsche: “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” Of course, Nietzsche was a…
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