#DoTellBocconi. Carlo Altomonte

Protagonist of #DoTellBocconi for the Economics and Management of Government and International Organizations program is Carlo Altomonte, who answered a burst of 32 questions in front of the camera. You can read are all his answers here below.

1. What adjective describes you?

Curious

1. If you were an animal, what would you be?

A bear. I love apple pie

1. The best quality for a student

Perseverance, without trespassing into stubbornness

1. As a teacher, what adjective fits you?

Empathic

1. If your program was a cult movie?

"X-Men" (we all have some superpowers, though sometimes we do not realize it...)

1. Create a motto for your program

Per aspera ad astra (through hardships to the stars)

1. The phrase you like best to say in class

Per aspera ad astra

1. Three things you would take to a desert island

Mask, snorkel and fins: I like to explore what I cannot see

1. The book that your students should absolutely read

"Night" by Elie Wiesel, in order to always remember what is the ultimate risk if men choose walls, hostility and divisions

1. If your course was a dish, what would it be?

Lasagna: layers and layers of skills to create the perfect dish of knowledge

1. What do you like to sing in the shower (or car)?

I want to tear down the walls / That hold me inside
(U2, Where the Streets Have No Name). I am a big U2 fan.

12. Any obsessions?

Reading. I read everything passing in front of my eyes. I even learnt Cyrillic characters so I could read stuff around me when in Moscow...I'm now trying with kanji (old Chinese characters)

1. The most beautiful gift you ever received?

The next one

1. And the most useless one?

There is no useless gift, if it is a true gift

1. What kind of student were you?

From 9am to 8pm: a boring good student. From 8pm: less boring

1. The exam you found most difficult (as a student)

Private Law

1. Where did you / would you do your Erasmus?

I went to Canada, in the early 90s.

1. What superpower would you like to have?

To boldly go where no man has gone before

1. What superpower does your program provide?

To boldly go where very few have been before...if you try enough

1. Your hero?

Our students with physical disability: great minds and incredible spirits

1. As a child you dreamed of becoming ...

An astrophysicist, because I wanted to explore beyond the limits of conventional wisdom

1. You cannot live without ...

My underwater camera set (and the related diving gear)

1. If you could meet a figure from the past, who would it be?

I have met, and I would gladly meet again, John Paul II

1. In which country would you like to live?

Italy. All the others I have tried are too easy to live in, and I get bored after a while...

1. If your program was a sport, what would it be?

Pole vault: I give them the pole and keep increasing the height. They keep on jumping higher.

1. Something you think needs to be invented

Teleport, unless they fly me in business class

1. Your most unbridled passion...

Scuba diving

1. Something you just cannot stand in the classroom

Switched-off brains

1. If you were the protagonist of a novel, who would you be?

I am the protagonist of a novel... I just don't know the end yet

1. In the future, where will lessons take place?

Wherever, as long as a group of curious students is in touch with gifted teachers

1. The work of art that most represents your course

Cubism (maybe by Picasso): reality has many different facets

1. What would you ask from the genie of the lamp?

Are we there yet? (cit. Shrek II)