#onemoredaytoanewbeginning

[christinealtomare]

What do you mean by "super offensive" referring to the costumes in The Last Czars? I'd like to know because I don't know a lot about that period's fashion in Russia 😊

I honestly just meant that I didn’t hate them as much as everybody else seemed to lol! A lot of people thought they were cheap looking and well... they were, but The Last Czars had bigger issues for me than it’s costumes.

[mythicalmagistra]

Hi there, I wanted to ask you a question: when you decided to study classics, what did your parents/teachers say? I'm graduating this year from high school and I would like to continue studying classics at university but everyone (even my Ancient Greek teacher!) is discouraging me from doing so... any advice? Also, do you know what kind of career possibilities are there for us classics kids (other than teaching)?

salve! I hope I didn’t leave this for a while, Tumblr doesn’t always show me I have messages, and I’ve been off and on for a while. In my parents, in many things, I am very lucky. My parents have always been very supportive of my academic pursuits. I come from a family of academics on my father’s side though, so this particular apple did not fall far from her tree. I also always was studying classics with my eye on being a high school teacher. I have wanted to be a high school Latin teacher since 7th grade…I’m a weirdo. 

That said, screw everyone else, if it makes you happy do it! I guess that only works if they are not holding funds over your head. There are many career possibilities if you study Classics, beyond teaching. In fact, one of the Latin teacher groups I’m a part of just had a discussion about this. There is the purely academic route of Professorship and researcher, two of my kidlets want to be archaeologists, one of my cohort mates in the Classics BA is a museum curator person (I forgot the specifics sorry). There are a lot of classicists who become lawyers. I know some people who study the ancient languages get into cryptography. I got offered a marketing job when I was a junior because I was a Classics major and the person admired the work ethic Classics major appear to have (false front in many cases, but we’re good at pretending, lol). 

That is just off the top of my very tired head. I just had parent-teacher conferences and am fried. I hope this helps! Feel free to pile on with other ideas, friends. Let me know if I can do anything else! Classics is wonderful and we would love to have you join us!  

[mythicalmagistra]

Thank you so much for your answer, I hope I will be able to convince my parents and to pursue my interests! I live in Rome so there are some teaching jobs available (in Italy we have a special kind of high school called "classical lyceum" where we learn a lot of Italian, Latin and Ancient Greek literature)... I would like to work in the field of philology and do research on classics... they told me there are some job opportunities for that in the US, is that true? (I'm assuming you're American)

I wish you luck! Yay! I do not know about Philology but I do know there are places for research! Anyone want to chime in?

[argorns]

Where in Italy are you going? :3

im in bardolino! close to verona. by the beautiful garda lake :^)

[goldenagc]

For the three musicals: Company, Sunday In The Park With George, Into The Woods

1. Sunday2. Into the Woods3. Company

(send me three musicals and I’ll rank them)

[the-strangest-sea]

onemoredaytoanewbeginning replied to your post “so i bought that book”

What book?

it’s called the cadet of tildor and it’s by alex lidell and i bought it here from book outlet! it’s not gonna come for another week but i’m pumped

[angeoltaire]

Question for you: how can u be so darn cute?

um. no idea friend ^_^

[seagreeneyes]

onemoredaytoanewbeginning replied to your post:Hai vissuto in Egitto e in Virginia? ��

Preferisci il liceo italiano o quello americano? (Sono troppo curiosa lol)

Se devo essere sincera sono terribili entrambi.

Al liceo italiano ho avuto delle esperienze terribili con i prof - fino a prof che mi prendevano a parole - ed è stato terribile per la mia salute mentale. Cioè, col senno di poi comincio a farmi venire dei dubbi e a domandarmi se non ero depressa durante il quarto ginnasio. Però le materie te le fanno studiare in modo abbastanza tosto.

Al liceo americano, per contro, gli insegnanti magari ti trattano come un essere umano (almeno, i miei) ma non impari una cicca. Fai conto che ho passato il primo anno lì (classi core, cioè quelle regolari) senza mai fare i compiti ed avevo tutte A. Poi mi hanno trasferita all’IB (International Baccalaureate Diploma) e le cose si sono fatte più toste. E’ un’organizzazione internazionale, quindi come programma è completamente diverso dalla scuola regolare americana. I miei insegnanti, però, continuavano a trattarmi da essere umano, quindi mi ci sono trovata piuttosto bene.