Personal Narrative: A Field Trip To The Royal Ontario Museum

A field trip to the Royal Ontario Museum– the most common yet despised ritual of every Torontonian middle school child. When it came time for Mr. Luchka’s fifth grade Social Studies class to make the traditional pilgrimage to what some call the most hideous building in Toronto, I was not alone in my feelings of boredom and exasperation. My experience that day did not change my mind. The ROM gets so many school tour groups; it would be impossible for them to make every experience unique. A ten year old is already disinterested enough in history– the only way to make it worse is to force them to go nearly every year.

It wasn’t until a few years later, at a ROM summer camp, that I grew to appreciate having Canada’s largest museum so close by.

Reading about Michigan students’ trips abroad to study in the hearts of the ancient world, Italy and Greece, has inspired and motivated me.

From Factio to the Eta Sigma Phi Honor Society, there are no shortages of both social and academic opportunities for classics students at Michigan. The best of all these is, for me, the Kelsey Museum of Archeology. Its collection of artefacts is a dream come to life. It’s an amazing opportunity for undergraduates to have access to such an incredible collection. Equally as extraordinary is the Classics Library. The wealth of knowledge at University of Michigan is one of the finest in North America, and access to it would give me the ability to truly entrench myself within the field.

The University of Michigan is an institution that understands the value of learning experiences that take place outside of the classroom. The extensive chances for studying abroad and substantial campus activities for classics students provide the kind of environment that I can truly see myself thriving in for the next four