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Mary Bernard | Friday, May 15, 2020
On Wednesday, April 29, I clicked “Leave Meeting” on Zoom — and just like that, my undergraduate career was behind me. I was in the living room, alone. Out the window, life in downtown Philadelphia whirred slowly. A few cars drove by. People wearing masks were lined up, six read more→
Observer Viewpoint | Friday, May 15, 2020
Every year, the graduating seniors from the Observer Editorial Board take to the commencement edition Viewpoint section for their final farewell and final byline. Read on for the work from our staff emeritus as well as the most memorable Letters to the Editor from the last four years. read more→
Connor Mulvena | Friday, May 15, 2020
Reminiscing with a friend the other day, I recalled my first Moreau session at Notre Dame. I remember it was hot that day. Or maybe I was just sweating from first day of school nerves. Either way, I was a mess. I walked in, and the professor asked, “You read more→
Tom Naatz | Friday, May 15, 2020
As a three-and-a-half-year tour guide, I can basically recite the end of the admissions info sessions by heart. The final line in particular is seared in my memory. “When you come to Notre Dame,” the cheerful counselor — almost always an alumnus/alumna — begins, “you’re really not just coming read more→
Mike Donovan | Friday, May 15, 2020
We were babies once … and dumb. If we’d been left alone, we would’ve hurt ourselves. But no longer. Now we are adults … and smart. Yes, there was a time when we were babies. When we got hungry, we wouldn’t make ourselves sandwiches. We would just cry until read more→
Zixu Wang | Friday, May 15, 2020
When I was overwhelmed with all the papers and the COVID-19 news, I didn’t think about graduation. Pessimistically speaking, I don’t think me and my friends are able to see each other in the future because we all leave for different countries. However, all the emotions just don’t come read more→
Kelli Smith | Friday, May 15, 2020
It wasn’t supposed to end this way. On March 5, I rolled my suitcase out of my apartment on Eddy Street without so much as a glance toward Notre Dame’s campus. My thoughts could only focus on the immediate days ahead, which would be filled with the beaming Cancún read more→
Evy Stein | Friday, May 15, 2020
In my time at Notre Dame, I have encountered many brilliant and dedicated students. I see them in the mornings reading over dining hall eggs, late at night working in the library and dorm study carrells and after class doing problem sets at my apartment’s kitchen table. Some of read more→
Nola Wallace | Friday, May 15, 2020
As a senior, like many others I have found myself reflecting on how I thought graduation ought to be. I had never pictured masks or social distancing. I had imagined senior week, a sunny commencement day and a neat closure to my academic experience. As an athlete, I planned read more→
Natalie Weber | Friday, May 15, 2020
Last spring, the clock app on my phone was filled with time zones from different cities. Indianapolis. Denver. Paris. Dublin. Toledo. Jerusalem. Perth. The cities didn’t always perfectly match the locations of my friends. But they gave me a general sense of their time zones as we studied abroad read more→