How the Program of Liberal Studies taught Maria Antoniak ’11 to ask the right questions — and led to a career in data and computer science
For Maria Antoniak ’11, a liberal arts education isn’t about having all the answers — it’s about learning what questions to ask. After four years studying great books in the Program of Liberal Studies, she’s now spent nearly a decade working in data and computer science across industry, nonprofit, and academic settings. “The background of PLS helps me engage critically with a dataset,” Antoniak said. “Asking creative and critical and pertinent research questions that try to get at the heart of things as quickly as possible — that comes partly from PLS and diving deeply into a text.”