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To the Syracuse University community,

I’d describe my freshman year, 2022-23, as exhausting, uninspired and disconnected. I’d always been drawn to the sciences, but felt little passion for what I was studying at the time, which was pre-med biochemistry. In the fall of my sophomore year, I switched to biology and forensics, which helped me find some of the passion I was searching for, but I still felt as though I was missing a key piece to my higher education puzzle.

Now, by the end of my final semester, I’ll have completed a minor in classical civilizations on top of my dual major program, providing the historical, literary and humanitarian substance I felt was lacking in my education. It led me to discover anthropology as a biological discipline and allowed me to understand the past through the application of science — science we wouldn’t have without classical philosophers and poets.

My previous mindset on science was two dimensional: There’s science, the arts and humanities, and they occasionally overlap but not significantly — a closed mindset many people share.

That was until I registered for a class titled Roman Literature, taught by professor Jeffery Carnes in the Classical........

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