Marx, Will

What motivated you to study Classics in college? Originally, I intended to study something very different: biochemistry. This idea lost its luster when a biochemistry professor displayed a detailed diagram of photosynthesis and said that …

Rous, Sarah

What motivated you to study Classics in college? I came to Classics slowly and rather circuitously… I first became interested in learning Latin while in high school, because of my reading on the American founding …

Samz-Pustol, Andrea

What motivated you to study Classics in college? When I started at UW-Madison I planned on being a high school math teacher.  I had always been intrigued by ancient Greece, but had no idea that …