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Now $1.50! Bastards! (Found in Peabody Library, the closest vending machine to the Classics department.) Zoom

Now $1.50! Bastards!

(Found in Peabody Library, the closest vending machine to the Classics department.)

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Posted 9 months ago

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Janus Rising — the State of Classical Studies at Vanderbilt

I like how Classics has to keep justifying its existence.

This particular quote worries me, though:

Many majors admit they have no intention of a career in classics.

Oh, shit.

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Posted 10 months ago

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I hate to be the cranky geezer, but sometimes there is no other recourse

  • Undergrad A: Do you know what ‘servile’ means?
  • Undergrad B: Wait, let me look it up.

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Posted 11 months ago

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It’s only a diagnostic test. Don’t agonize about it. Then again, you’re Classics students, you’re going to agonize.

A prof right before giving us our diagnostic test, translating four passages of Greek/Latin prose and poetry we’d never seen before, for the purposes of placement.

I agonized.

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Posted 11 months ago

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How to tell you are no longer in your small liberal arts college and are now in the South

  • You overhear ‘My dad and I did hundreds of Civil War re-enactments’
  • You see a sign that says ‘LIBERAL WRITERS NEEDED for the only liberal paper on campus’
  • You spot an Obama/Joker/Socialism poster on the way to campus

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Posted 11 months ago

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Gems from the US culture section of orientation

  • Acting friendly is a US custom.
  • People in the US have ‘sensitive’ noses that do not like the smell of the human body.
  • American students are very sensitive about difference.
  • You might notice that people in the US walk quickly, talk quickly, and pay little attention to manners and politeness.
  • This information does not apply to all people from the US.

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