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-G. Matthew Molinsky | Thursday, April 30, 2020
As the guy who wrote about his love for New Urbanism three months ago and wanted to promote the idea of being more connected to people through close contact with them, COVID-19 makes me feel pretty silly. My first reaction to the outbreak hitting America was bleak. Everyone is going to hole up in their
G. Matthew Molinsky | Thursday, April 16, 2020
When the rectors of Notre Dame residence halls are unobstructed from doing their jobs, their roles resemble that of fathers and mothers. As parents do with their children, rectors share a life with their residents and in an intimate home. They eat meals together, celebrate holidays together and pray together. However, certain policies from the
G. Matthew Molinsky | Thursday, March 26, 2020
Dealing with the effects of coronavirus and COVID-19 is the latest test for American democracy. This crisis will allow us to see some stark differences in the way the world’s two superpowers use their authority, and how each country handles this crisis will have serious ramifications for how each nation governs in the future. China
G. Matthew Molinsky | Thursday, March 5, 2020
My early teenage years were a time when I began to take a stronger interest in my faith. It was also the time when I became more aware of the injustices in America. Interestingly, this led to my Catholic identity becoming a way to escape from my duties as an American. Having grown up saying
G. Matthew Molinsky | Thursday, February 20, 2020
For over three years now, my friends and I have had an obsession with collecting pop tabs, those metal pieces on the tops of aluminum cans. The idea behind collecting the pop tabs is that they can be donated to the Ronald McDonald House Charities, an organization that helps families with sick children resident close
G. Matthew Molinsky | Thursday, February 6, 2020
During a six-week stint abroad in Rome, I fell in love with the European city. I lived in a two-bedroom apartment on the second floor of a seven-story apartment building in the neighborhood of Garbatella. Every day, I made the 15-minute commute by metro to the Notre Dame Global Gateway, located a few blocks from
G. Matthew Molinsky | Thursday, January 23, 2020
I’ve spent a lot of time in engineering classes, learning about topics such as the chemical process of manure acting as a fertilizer, bored out of my mind, asking myself, “Is this absolutely necessary to earn my civil engineering degree?” These mind-numbing classes neither advance my professional aspirations nor satisfy my personal educational curiosities. The