Self Assessment
Rome is an absolutely amazing city that I completely fell in love with, and I am so grateful to Washington and Jefferson College for giving me such an amazing experience. Before actually arriving in Rome, I had planned on visiting numerous sites, and studying all of them would have easily taken me three weeks to complete. However, one of the really unique aspects of Rome is that in the process of walking to the sites I was planning on studying, I would always stumble across more ruins, churches, or other historical sites I had not previously heard of, but which fit directly into my project. During the planning phase of my project, I had initially considered traveling to multiple cities in Italy to study religious art and architecture in context, but I am very glad I decided to stay in one city, because doing so allowed to to take the time to explore and study these new sites. However, despite only being in one city, there were seemingly endless sites to study in Rome, so three weeks wa...