I took a class by Martha Nussbaum when I was 18 years old. It was a graduate ancient philosophy class on Sophocles' Philoctetes. I had idolized Nussbaum as one of the great minds of our time and leap at the opportunity to learn from her. I remember having to get her permission to take the class as it was for philosophy and classics grad students, but she agreed. It was like drinking from the firehose, but it really ignited my dedication to studying the classics in college, for which I am immensely grateful. She is such a quick mind.