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An open curriculum and studying what you love can take you all over the place, and Andrew Groll ’19 arrived at a literature major with the spectrum-spanning minors digital arts and medieval and Renaissance studies.
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'I came into Hamilton with a scientific mind and felt like it would be a waste of a liberal arts degree if I left with the same scientific mind. Women’s and gender studies broadens my horizons, and each class challenges me to see the world in a new way.'
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That moment you realize you can take any course that sounds interesting: When it happened to first-year student Elliot Plaut ’19, he opted for Arabic.
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As a high school senior Kelsey Brush ’20 was interested in music education as a possible career, but she wasn’t ready to commit her life to it. She had too many interests to explore, so instead of a conservatory, she went for Hamilton and its open curriculum.
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After one intro archaeology course her first year at Hamilton, Petra Elfström ’18 was hooked, soon signing up for Hamilton’s six-week summer archaeology field school course at the Slocan Narrows Pithouse Village in British Columbia
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As a kid Marcus Gutierrez ’18 was, in his own assessment, an athletic nerd who would hang around the house and watch the History Channel. It seems to follow that he’s now a history (and government) major and member of the Hamilton College football team.
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“I heartily accept the motto, ‘That government is best which governs least’; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.”
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Discovering history has been profound for Brian Dickinson ’18, who had intended to take a premed track and major in biology at Hamilton.
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Eliana Zupcich ’18 turned to the interdisciplinary concentration to fashion her own major in linguistics. It all began in a course called "Language and Sociolinguistics."
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When Luke Jeton ’17 was growing up in rural Maine, he was a little kid in love with a book fat book.