I studied Spanish and Environmental Studies. Both of these areas have always been important to me and they are both closely linked to my identity.

Find your community and work that you're interested in outside of academia! I've found that, for me, the academy can feel very isolating -- like you're stuck in an ivory tower. Investing time in your community and making connections can help you get out of that mindset and makes your work as a humanities student all the more meaningful.

Talk with the advisors and try and find a routine and organization that works for you. In both your college schedule and daily life.

The work you are doing matters! No matter your discipline, be it linguistics, theatre, fine arts, cultural studies, or literature, you are doing indispensable work and learning vital skills to connect us to one another as people and root our world in that social experience. Thank you for the work you are doing, it is so, so important.

I love my double major because it combines two passions: languages and language learning. Linguistics fascinated me and furthered my understanding of this field. Spanish, and the Spanish Heritage Language program was a phenomenal experience connecting me with other heritage speakers who love the language as much as I do.

A Classical Studies major is akin to taking your own hero’s journey through ancient Greece and Rome. Along the way you are guided by a contingent of sophic sages, the dedicated professors supporting your quest for knowledge, as you explore the language, culture, literature, and history of the ancient world. 

What do you Love about your major?

I love the tight-knit community in the Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures Department and the mentorship I’ve received from my peers and faculty. There are so many opportunities in MELC for support and networking, as well as fellow passionate language students with a range of interests and areas of research!

What do you Love about your major?

I love that I get to learn about trauma care and human development as inextricably linked with the way we go about education. Education is about caring for the whole person. As for Arabic, my minor, I love it because it helps me to challenge my brain to think in a new way. It's important to be able to communicate with people in their own language. I am reminded that the world is bigger than my bubble of culture and there is beauty in this journey to try to know and understand it.

What do you love about your major?

I love how my media literacy has developed. To decipher the constant flow of information from the screens that surround us gives me a sense of agency and liberty. My major has shown me the power of an image, how what is portrayed has such potency, creating opportunity and responsibility for filmmakers.

What do you Love about your major?

I love how the English major offers opportunities to engage creatively with a wide variety of materials, ranging from novels to songs, poems, pastiches, short stories, essays, and more. This variety, openness of interpretation, and the possibilities for discussion with my peers make my major exciting and fulfilling.