After graduating from Buffalo in 2006 with a BA in Classics, I worked manual labor on a farm in upstate Vermont, reading Virgil’s Eclogues in the afternoon, after work. At the end of summer, I took a position as Latin teacher at a public high school in Washington, D.C. Although becoming a teacher was never my intention, I enjoyed the challenges of the profession, sharing my love of Latin, and, most importantly, the students. After three years I’ve decided to earn my Master’s in Latin pedagogy in the hopes of becoming the best teacher I can be. I am forever grateful to the University of Buffalo’s Classics department for its amazing professors, for the close-knit community it provided, and for the opportunities my degree has given me.