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Anthropology Class as Told By Ross Geller

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Gettysburg chapter.

I can’t tell you how many times my college experience feels like a F.R.I.E.N.D.S. plotline.  

So, when I walked into my Public History minor’s Anthropology/Archaeology requirement last semester, it was like walking into “Professor Geller”‘s class all over again.  

No, it wasn’t quite palaeontology.  

But was half of what Ross said?

Besides, Ross’s reactions fit quite perfectly.  

Like when the professor revealed that, when in the field, you can distinguish between types of pottery by licking it.  

Some of the ethnographies were really sad.  It got upsetting to think about some of these things happening in the world.  

But it was often written off as a cultural difference.  

Not everything made total sense.  

In the end, though, it was hard not to get excited about the concepts.  

And you really didn’t want to leave as the semester came to a close.  

Juliette Sebock, Founder: Jules founded the Gettysburg College chapter of Her Campus in Fall 2015 and served as Campus Correspondent until graduating in Spring 2018. Juliette graduated from Gettysburg College in 2018 with an English major and History/Civil War Era Studies/Public History triple minors. In addition to HC, she was a member of the Spring 2017 class of Advanced Studies in England and of various organizations including Eta Sigma Phi, Dance Ensemble, and Poetry Circle. She has published a poetry chapbook titled Mistakes Were Made, available on Amazon and Goodreads, and she has poems forthcoming in several literary magazines. She is also the editor-in-chief of Nightingale & Sparrow Magazine and runs the lifestyle blog, For the Sake of Good Taste. For more information, visit https://juliettesebock.com.