She also found it challenging to do laundry so frequently, especially because clothes must be dry-cleaned every day, according to the GTL lifestyle.

“You’re supposed to dry-clean everything, but I didn’t have the money to because I’m still paying off student loans,” Moore said.

The gym also posed challenges, as she found that she was one of the few females in the weight room.

“It was a little uncomfortable because all of the people in the weight room are men … there’s kind of a gym culture that is sort of segregated by gender, unfortunately, and I got to experiment with it,” Moore said.

Moore explained that she chose to pursue a lifestyle of a Guido rather than a Guidette because she could more easily highlight the challenges someone faces when aspiring to be the ideal Guido.

“If I took on the femininity of the Guidettes, it might be just as ridiculous, but because of the fact that the men have a very specific self-discipline I could enact, I thought it would be easier to showcase,” she explained.

LSA senior Stephen Wettstein has taken three classes with Moore and was her student while she was emulating the Guido lifestyle. He wrote papers about “Jersey Shore” for her classes and has discussed Moore’s project with her.

Wettstein explained the reasoning behind the gym, tanning, laundry regimen as a means for the characters to present themselves a certain way.

“The whole point of this routine is this look that they’re trying to get and this look is … called ‘fresh to death,’ the idea that whenever they go out they want to look brand new, like squeaky clean,” Wettstein explained.

He said that the only noticeable different about Moore while she was doing her project was that she seemed happier as a result of the tanning. Wettstein said that he has read studies that say tanning during the winter months, or times of cold weather, can improve moods.

“Candace did seem a little bit more upbeat, a little more excited doing what she was doing and I’m sure going to the gym as well releases endorphins,” he said.

Moore even went as far as to mimic the hairstyle of “The Situation”— the nickname of Michael Sorrentino, a person on the Jersey Shore — shaving the sides of her blonde hair so she could slick the rest of her hair back.

Moore is currently taking a break from the guido lifestyle to write a paper on the experience. She will begin the project again, this time for 28 days or a month, to finalize the paper, and she said she may continue to emulate some aspects of the lifestyle in the future.

“I might keep the gym and the tanning part,” Moore said. “I’m obviously going to continue to do laundry, but trying to do laundry every day really was, with my schedule, a real struggle.”