Will I regret majoring in Classics?

College Majors
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<p>Spouse & I love studying ancient Greece/ Rome & have visited the great and the obscure archeological sites & museums all over the world in our leisure time. We always pick cruise itineraries that permit us to reach the hard-to-get-to sites. Our book shelves are full of history books. Spouse has amassed quite a collection of classical artifacts & ancient coins over the years, visiting shows & auctions in europe. We can afford it. My classics major friend, however, cannot.</p>

<p>Point is: you don’t need to be a starving academic to pursue your intellectual passion. </p>

<p>Caution on digging the classics hole even deeper w a PhD:
<a href=“http://m.newyorker.com/online/blogs/joshuarothman/2014/06/fixing-the-phd.html”>http://m.newyorker.com/online/blogs/joshuarothman/2014/06/fixing-the-phd.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;