Monthly Archives: January 2009

The Dreaded Oral Exam

When it was announced that I would be the first to take my test with no other than the head of the entire Anthropology Department, I knew waiting until the last minute to study was probably a bad idea.  Instead of practicing all the information I had crammed in my head in Italian with my roomates, I decided to memorize the more useful phrase of Per favore avere pietà di me, or “Please have mercy on me.”  Back in the US I would call studying 2 or 3 nights before […]

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