STAVROS STAVRIDES

March 1, 2007

I teach: Economics and Finance

Originally from: Thessaloniki / Greece

Single/Married/With Children: Dedicated Single

Favorite color: Dark Blue

Favorite book: ”Der Prozess” by Franz Kafka

Favorite movie: Any Woody Allen film would do the trick!

Favorite CD: «O Stavros tou Notou»

How long have you been teaching at ACT? Does it get easier or more difficult as time goes by?
5 years. It is getting more exciting!

What is the one aspect of teaching that you find most rewarding? And the one that you find most challenging?
Interacting with young people is both most rewarding and challenging!

What’s special about teaching at ACT?
For me it’s too personal! I am emotionally attached to ACT for many reasons. To mention one of them, I am a former student of ACT.

Other than the classroom, what’s your favorite place to spend time on campus?
The classroom before or after class when we chat with students about anything and everything…

Tell us more about your life outside the classroom.
It is cold out there…

What’s one hobby you would take up if you had more time?
Playing the piano.

If you weren’t a professor, you would have become….
…I really have to think more about this…if I could choose, though, I would choose being a student for some more years!

What’s one thing you know now and you wish you knew when you were in college?
How important it is to enjoy your life as a student…

Any advice for those ACT students who will be graduating in a few months?
Advice? Not my style! Just wish them all good health and the best of luck!

What’s your 2007 New Year resolution?
Keep trying to become the best I can be…