moved into the dorm, hung out in the student lounge, ate in the dining hall, and participated in student clubs. She also sequestered herself from family and friends throughout the study. To collect data, Small asked her fellow students a lot of questions. She visually observed interactions in the dining hall, such as seating preferences by race. She also conducted formal interviews with more than fifty residential students. Approximately half of the participants figured out she was a professor of anthropology at NAU. When asked, she described herself as a writer interested in experiencing university life. When pushed, Small did admit that she was a professor and asked the questioner for confidentiality. While a student at NAU, Small collected data needed to form a theory about campus social life. Her work resulted in a book, My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student, published by Cornell University Press in 2005. Smith published the book under the pseudonym Rebekah Nathan and referred to the university as AnyU to protect the students and the university. Before publishing the book, Small obtained informed consent from students she wanted to quote. In addition, she did not identify the students by name in the book. Small intended to offer enough ambiguity to provide privacy to her informants while they were still in school. In the book, Small's main thesis was that college campuses are not in complete unity and do not have a sense of community, but rather the social life is more controlled by ego-centered networks. According to this theory, students self-select the people they want to associate with and plan their schedules around these friends. As a result, the university's efforts to create a community were often unappealing to students and, therefore, unsuccessful. Small noted that many of the ego-centered networks change frequently or are short-lived. My Freshman Year stimulated discussions about the perceived intellectual laziness of university students. Small learned that academics were a small part of the typical student's day; most students indicated that they learned more from their social interactions. Students had difficulties engaging in university life if they lacked adequate financial support. Most students in Small's study worked while attending college. Rather than participating in political, philosophical, or intellectual classes and activities, these working students prioritized courses that promised to help them repay heavy student loans. The students also spent a lot of time discussing bodily