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Hi! My name’s Corrie, I study Classics, and I went on a year abroad to Milan for my third year, spending the year at Università degli Studi di Milano Statale, going to lectures at the central campus in Via Festa del Perdono, which is nestled behind the Duomo of Milan. Academics in Italy I met […]
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