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#DoTellBocconi. Donato Masciandaro

, by Benedetta Ciotto
Discover the undergraduate program in Economics and Finance through the answers of Professor Donato Masciandaro

Protagonist of #DoTellBocconi for the Economics and Finance undergraduate program is Donato Masciandaro, 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?

A hedgehog: I prick just to protect myself

  1. The best quality for a student

Attention

  1. As a teacher, what adjective fits you?

Passionate

  1. If your program was a cult movie?

"The Blues Brothers": funny and with a happy ending

  1. Create a motto for your program

"Scienza audaces iuvat"

  1. The phrase you like best to say in class

At the beginning: "Previously on this course"
At the end: "Now I'm ready to answer all your questions"

  1. Three things you would take to a desert island

A family picture, a block notes, a harpoon

  1. The book that your students should absolutely read

"The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity" by Carlo Cipolla

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

Water: essential, but never enough

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

"Il Pescatore", by Fabrizio De Andé

  1. Any obsessions?

Tin soldiers

  1. The most beautiful gift you ever received

A model of the Dyan 6, when I was young

  1. And the most useless one?

Any wine bottle: I'm a teetotaler

  1. What kind of student were you?

Hard working

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

Operational Research

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

London

  1. What superpower would you like to have?

Thought transference

  1. What superpower does your program provide?

Resilience

  1. Your hero?

Manco in "For a Few Dollars More"

  1. As a child you dreamed of becoming

An archeologist

  1. You cannot live without

Chocolate

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

The inventor of glasses: we all owe him something, but nobody knows who he or she is

  1. In which country would you like to live?

In Switzerland

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

Soccer

  1. Something you think needs to be invented

Teleport

  1. Your most unbridled passion

Soccer!

  1. Something you just cannot stand in the classroom

It depends

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

Bob Langdon, the protagonist of Dan Brown novels

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

In classrooms

  1. The work of art that most represents your course

"Impression" by Monet

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

That everybody, including me, "loves their neighbors as themselves"



#DoTellBocconi - Donato Masciandaro/Economia e finanza

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