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I get immensely distressed when I see students building a little nest for themselves in just one proverbial corner of campus. Perhaps my most common advising conversations is “You do not need to take 3 classes at once in this department. What about <<category you’ve never studied>>?”

(Macalester is a liberal arts college, so our curriculum is carefully calibrated such that there is •room• for students to touch many disciplines. That’s point. Yes, there are other kinds of schools where do you have to take almost all your classes in one dept. I am leery of that.)