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I had found a few around our large back yard (probably the cat\u2019s fault), and they looked so cute and soft and furry, I figured I\u2019d bring them home.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">Fortunately, my mom was used to my strange ideas. She stalled for time.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">\u201cWhere would you keep your collection?\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">I said I\u2019d keep the mice in a fish bowl so people could see how cute they were.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">\u201cI don\u2019t think they\u2019d stay cute in a fish bowl.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">I offered to throw them out when they weren\u2019t cute anymore, but my poor mom put her foot down.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">\u201cHoney, I don\u2019t think dead mice are something people collect.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">When I got my postdoc at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mnhn.fr\/en\" style=\"color:blue; text-decoration:underline\">Mus\u00e9um national d\u2019Histoire naturelle<\/a>\u00a0studying mouse teeth, I sent my mom this photo:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 10pt\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Default Alt text\" class=\"responsive\" data-file_info=\"%7B%22fid%22:%228787%22,%22view_mode%22:%22default%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22default%22,%22field_file_image_alt_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22Default%20Alt%20text%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22Default%20Title%20Text%22,%22field_image_tags%5Bund%5D%5Btextfield%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_image_tags%5Bund%5D%5Bvalue_field%5D%22:%22%5C%22%5C%22%5C%22%5C%22%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D\" src=\"http:\/\/insights.cactusglobal.com\/sites\/default\/files\/From%20collecting%20dead%20mice%20as%20a%20child%20to%20getting%20a%20postdoc%20studying%20mouse%20teeth%20Image%201.jpg\" style=\"\" title=\"Default Title Text\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">Hell, yeah! They are!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">My mom swears she doesn\u2019t remember my aborted dead mouse collection, but I do \u2013 and props to my mom for constructive handling of my weird childhood enthusiasms. But what occurs to me most when I think about that story is the old\u00a0<i>plus \u00e7a change, plus c\u2019est la m\u00eame chose<\/i>: after fourteen years of higher education, I\u2019m pretty much the same person I was when I was six.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">I had another full circle moment yesterday. Back when I was fifteen, I attended the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.njcl.org\/\" style=\"color:blue; text-decoration:underline\">National Junior Classical League<\/a>\u00a0convention, which was being held at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiana.edu\/\" style=\"color:blue; text-decoration:underline\">Indiana University Bloomington<\/a>. While at the convention, I heard about the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiana.edu\/~liblilly\/\" style=\"color:blue; text-decoration:underline\">Lilly Library<\/a><span class=\"MsoHyperlink\" style=\"color:blue\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">,<\/span><\/span>\u00a0IUB\u2019s rare books, manuscripts, and special collections \u2013 and I learned that anyone \u2013 anyone! \u2013 could make an appointment to see the rare books. It blew my teenage mind! I could walk into this library and ask to hold a book that was hundreds of years old \u2013 and they would let me!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">I put it to the test. Lo and behold, they sat me at a desk, set up props to hold the book, and brought me one of the first folios of Shakespeare, published in 1623. I remember hesitating to touch it, worried it would fragment, worried I would tear it if I turned a page. But the paper felt surprisingly resilient for a book over 350 years old, and I slowly gained confidence. For the next two hours, I sat in the quiet of the library reading\u00a0<i>Macbeth<\/i>, my favorite play.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">That first folio of Shakespeare was not the first artifact I had ever touched, but reading it in the Lilly Library was one of my first experiences entering the world of artifacts \u2013 that place where people valued and studied and worked to understand the past through its material remains. I had wanted to be an archaeologist since I was eight. Being treated like a researcher and trusted with a rare book made me feel like it was possible.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">Yesterday, I took the students from my Discoveries of Archaeology course to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/spec.lib.miamioh.edu\/home\/\" style=\"color:blue; text-decoration:underline\">Walter Havighurst Special Collections<\/a>\u00a0of the King Library at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.miami.miamioh.edu\/\" style=\"color:blue; text-decoration:underline\">Miami University of Ohio<\/a>, where I am currently a Visiting Assistant Professor. Guided by the Head of Collections, William Modrow, my students handled dozens of objects: cuneiform tablets, medieval books of hours, Napoleon\u2019s\u00a0<i>Description de l\u2019\u00c9gypte<\/i>, and late 19<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0century stereoscope images of archaeological sites to name a few. Cautious at first, as I had been, by the end of the visit they were picking up volumes and replacing them on their props, turning pages, switching out the stereoscope images, running their fingers over the tiny pressed symbols of the clay tablets. With plenty of time to explore, the students gravitated to what most interested them, and it seemed to be different for everyone.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 10pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:115%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">I have no idea what particular interests drove each of my students, what their own personal curiosities and ideas and hopes might be. And I have no idea what the experience of the special collections will end up meaning to them. It may mean nothing particular, or end up just a curious memory, or be one of those cool ways college was broadening before they settle into something totally unrelated. For most, it probably won\u2019t be formative. But we never know what experiences are going to matter to people. They may not know themselves until it\u2019s twenty-two years later and they\u2019re holding a first folio of Shakespeare.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 10pt\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Default Alt text\" class=\"responsive\" data-file_info=\"%7B%22fid%22:%228788%22,%22view_mode%22:%22default%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22default%22,%22field_file_image_alt_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22Default%20Alt%20text%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22Default%20Title%20Text%22,%22field_image_tags%5Bund%5D%5Btextfield%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_image_tags%5Bund%5D%5Bvalue_field%5D%22:%22%5C%22%5C%22%5C%22%5C%22%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D\" src=\"http:\/\/insights.cactusglobal.com\/sites\/default\/files\/From%20collecting%20dead%20mice%20as%20a%20child%20to%20getting%20a%20postdoc%20studying%20mouse%20teeth%20image%202.jpg\" style=\"\" title=\"Default Title Text\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i>Emily Holt (<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Emily_M_Holt\" style=\"color:blue; text-decoration:underline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>@Emily_M_Holt<\/i><\/a><i>) is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics at Miami University. This story was published on October 5, 2018, on Emily\u2019s blog, <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/errant.live\" style=\"color:blue; text-decoration:underline\"><i>Errant<\/i><\/a><i> (available <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/errant.live\/2018\/10\/05\/full-circle\/\" style=\"color:blue; text-decoration:underline\"><i>here<\/i><\/a><i>) and has been republished here with her permission. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was little \u2013 five? maybe six? \u2013 I told my mom I wanted a dead mouse collection. I had found a few around our large back yard (probably the cat\u2019s fault), and they looked so cute and soft and furry, I figured I\u2019d bring them home. 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