Laura Jefferson's Page

Hometown/Institution:

Henniker, NH

Role in the Classics Classroom (real or virtual):

student

About Me:

Once there was Girls' Latin School in Boston, which had a terrible building, a shorter history, half the enrollment, and twice the intellectual clout of its 'brother' school, Boston Latin. Girls Latin morphed into Boston Latin Academy not much later. After that I majored in Classics at Brandeis, which collapsed its program into Classics and Oriental Studies. Much later I got an MDiv from Weston Jesuit School of Theology, which is being absorbed by Boston College, so I think I am bad for academic institutions, or just prone to lost causes. I have no academic connection to classics these days, apart from being brutally boring to my children, one of whom has reacted to this formation by entering a PhD program in ...Classics. I love knowing Latin. My Greek was never good enough, but it's still there.

My Website:

http://passeriform.blogspot.com

Favorite on-line spots for the Classics:

The New York Times.

Best/worst computer-related classroom happening:

Watching PowerPoints at archaeology conferences whose file either refused to load, or whose pictures were so light they bleached out almost to invisibility.