I had exactly the same experience -- one year in a Great Books school (in my case, St. John's) -- and can say that doing the Elements was probably the single mo

I had exactly the same experience -- one year in a Great Books school (in my case, St. John's) -- and can say that doing the Elements was probably the single most transformative experience of my life until I had a kid. I ended up reconceiving almost everything I thought I knew about my intellectual constitution.