<p>I thought I’d chime in and talk briefly about the scientific side of St John’s. I graduated with Kate and have since been working at the national lab in Los Alamos. I’ve been accepted to a graduate degree program in radiochemistry at Hunter College in Manhattan. The regular humanities are a thing of beauty at St. John’s, but the math and sciences (these are humanities, too) outshines them. I came to St. John’s with a philosophy degree and the intention of going on to a philosophy PhD program afterwards. By the end of the first year, I was convinced that I belonged in the sciences.</p>
<p>I don’t really know how to compare my school to other schools, but I will relate the following story: While I was visiting Hunter, one of the current grad students and I struck up a conversation about the humanities (he called them ‘hume’ because he turned out to be from Reed, I thought he was referring to the philosopher at first). He started talking about Homer and I quoted the first lines of the Iliad in Greek. His jaw dropped: “You read it in Greek?!”</p>