#DoTellBocconi. Maristella Botticini

Protagonist of #DoTellBocconi for the Economic and Social Sciences undergraduate program is Maristella Botticini, who answered a burst of 32 questions in front of the camera. You can read are all her answers here below.

1. What adjective describes you?

Indomitable energy!

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

A peregrin falcon, for its speed

1. The best quality for a student

Endless curiosity

1. As a teacher, what adjective fits you?

Stellar, of course, what else? Maristella is a stellar teacher!

1. If your program was a cult movie?

Breakfast at Tiffany's: grace combined with great sense of humor.

1. Create a motto for your program I borrow somelse's motto in which I strongly believe:

Genius is 1% Inspiration, 99% perspiration (Thomas Edison).

1. The phrase you like best to say in class It's actually a verb:

pedalare!!! pedalare!!! pedalare!!! when students complain that I give too many homeworks.

1. Three things you would take to a desert island

A book, a cd-player with a lot of music and dark chocolate

1. The book that your students should absolutely read

The Divine Comedy. Or something lighter: the Bible.

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

Pumpkin ravioli (ravioli di zucca!), one of the most sophisticated dishes on the planet.

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

"Vita spericolata" by Vasco Rossi

1. Any obsessions?

Attention to details

1. The most beautiful gift you ever received?

"Thanks" from the students at the end of the course

1. And the most useless one?

I can't remember one....

1. What kind of student were you?

A super-gigantic nerd, and very proud to be so!

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

None...(I'm a liar!)

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

There was no Erasmus program when I was a student. I went abroad, to the United States, after graduating from Bocconi, to earn the PhD in Economics and to work. If I was a student now, I would do the Erasmus in Israel.

1. What superpower would you like to have?

Being able to speak, read and write in 66 different languages! Knowing a language is like having the key to open an entire new world.

1. What superpower does your program provide?

The ability to think on one's own

1. Your hero?

Rosa Parks. Alabama, 1955, a small gesture with a powerful meaning.

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

A doctor, to take care of people

1. You cannot live without

Music and Art

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

Julius Caesar

1. In which country would you like to live?
3. If your program was a sport, what would it be?

The marathon

1. Something you think needs to be invented

A magic pill that makes everyone endowed with one rare quality: empathy.

1. Your most unbridled passion

Dancing...and singing

1. Something you just cannot stand in the classroom

Sleepy eyes. Translated: occhi da pesce lesso!

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

Penelope in the Odyssey. Patience is an important value

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

In classrooms. The contact between students and teachers is important

1. The work of art that most represents your course

"Simultaneous Visions" by Umberto Boccioni. I teach my students to see things through completely different perspectives

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

Health and a meaningful life for everyone