Four Years and More
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A liberal arts education is definitely valuable, no matter if you’re gonna go and be a molecular biologist or a politician.
It opens up your mind to some bigger things.
It’s really a self, it’s a journey learning about yourself. I think I was looking for a place that I knew I could go and study and not be the anomaly.
Most students here really care about what they’re working on. My name is Anne Runkel, I’m from Helena Montana, and I’m a biology major and I’m studying the genetics behind infertility to better understand the genetics behind planet phytochemistry. I wanted to go to a school that I knew I would be challenged at, and I knew that I could study political science, and read great works of literature.
My struggle was really in finding a place that had an outstanding science curriculum as well, and Middlebury absolutely is all of those things. I have been able to take really profoundly interesting courses that are so different from my science courses that it stretches my brain. Italian Renaissance Art, and one called Gender in Japan.
History of Islam in the Middle East since 1453.
Chinese Politics, Eastern European Politics.
Newtonian Physics course
Acting to theater history.
The stuff that you learn in an English class applies to a chemistry class and vice versa.
You can’t just think about your particular area of study in isolation.
Some of the classes that I took at Middlebury have allowed me to see problem solving from a couple different perspectives. But most importantly, the ability for me to apply my research to the real world so that it has value and application as opposed to just doing science in the lab.
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