Classics major

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There are few things I miss about being in school---I don't miss the homework load (where I'd usually be assigned to read literally around 1,500 pages per WEEK), I don't miss the critical analysis essays dissecting every last bit of minutiae in whatever text we were studying, and I don't (usually) miss the pompous, verbose

I receive weekly reminders of my linguistic ignorance whenever I read anything by authors fluent in Latin.

Dear son: I am appalled...that you have adopted Classics as a major...I almost puked on the way home today. Parents were hilariously harsh in the '50s.