In a way, I’m even with Indiana Jones.

Snakes, his phobia, don’t scare me. Normal snakes, at least. Then again, I wouldn’t want to find out if I’m capable of outrunning a speeding boulder.

Even if I could, that ability wouldn’t qualify me to be an archaeologist. In fact, the seven Indiana State University anthropology majors who have studied archaeology and who will graduate Saturday won’t be asked to re-create Jones’ feats in their own careers. The three classic Indiana Jones movies from the 1980s, and the new “Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” due out this month, are fantastic cinema but not real life.

The world’s most famous archaeologist does little genuine archaeology.

“We don’t carry guns or whips. There’s no running from boulders. We might run from some indigenous people,” said ISU senior Ben Orcutt, “but archaeology is a science.

“I do have a nice hat like that, though,” he added.

Indiana Jones’ hats were hot items after each release of those first three Harrison Ford movies: “Raiders of the Lost Ark” in 1981; “The Temple of Doom” in 1984; and “The Last Crusade” in 1989. No doubt, they’ll pop up again this summer after “Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” premieres May 22. Whip sales might spike, too.

Because Ford’s character — Dr. Henry “Indiana” Jones Jr., Ph.D. — is a professor of archaeology, interest in that field also surged in the 1980s.