I am going to miss the late-night, delusion-driven banters with the copy team, the late-night calls with my beloved newsies, and all the ‘I hope this email finds you well’ I’ve typed in the last eight months
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To celebrate the start of classes, a few
Journal staff shared their all-time favourite courses.
CLST 201: Roman History, taught by Dr. Bernard Kavanagh.
To illustrate my admiration for this course and the man who teaches it, I’m going to start with a quote from the original Renaissance man, Leonardo Da Vinci: “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
As a fourth-year history major, I can’t tell you how many professors I’ve watched frantically claim or proudly scoff that their course “surely won’t consist of any memorizing of dates and names” and proceed to teach the most unnecessarily complex material imaginable. Case in point: why this class was so refreshing for me. Even if you’re not partial to Roman history, I highly recommend you give this class, or the professor who teaches it, a look.