Claire French

What is your favourite thing about the College?

The sense of community! The College is both a place of serious scholarship and a home to all of us.

What will you miss the most?

Watching the new students go through the various rites of passage, such as hanging out in the lounge for the first time, handing in the first real university papers, tearing their hair out over the second year Aristotle paper, that sort of thing.

What is your favourite reading/book/text from the program?

Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy or Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition are probably the “correct” answers because they are texts that have shaped my personal and academic life, but Rabelais’s Gargantua and Pantagruel is the secret true answer.

What’s next for you?

Carleton’s MA Philosophy program, just across the stairwell!