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SPEAKER 1: OK.

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What is the most obscure
class you took at college?

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It doesn't have to be maths.

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SPEAKER 2: Two of my favorite classes--
and they're not really off the beaten

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path, but they were relative for
me-- were taking Dramatic Arts 101,

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which was this theater
class where in every week,

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you would learn something
new about the theater--

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a week on writing, a week on directing,
lighting, acting-- everything.

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So that was so much fun--
like, a survey class.

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And then I also took as a senior--

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so a fourth year--

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Latin, introductory Latin.

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And it was me and a
bunch of first years--

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because they were taking it as
a required language requirement,

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and I was just taking it for fun.

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And I'd never studied Latin before.

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And so, for me, it was just such fun.

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I actually started to understand,
ironically, English better--

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SPEAKER 1: Of course, yeah.

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SPEAKER 2: --all these years later
because it gives you so much more

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of a mental model and a context for
certain rules in English that I think we

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learned very--

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not even formally-- informally but
then made sense retrospectively.