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-14 posts tagged "Appreciation"
Lara Novaes Victor | Wednesday, November 15, 2023
As the autumn leaves blanket our pathways to class to announce the arrival of Thanksgiving season, a poignant sense of homesickness fills the hearts of international students like me. This iconic American holiday, rooted in family gatherings, homemade food and reconnecting with loved ones, often magnifies the distance between us and our families. Almost seamlessly,
Dane Sherman | Friday, February 17, 2023
One of my earliest memories is gripping our kitchen’s cold, stainless steel table. It was originally a Home Depot work bench that my dads thought would look modern and hip as a dining room table. Or maybe it was just them trying to save money. My legs swung, unable to touch the ground. Their nervous
Diane Park | Friday, September 4, 2020
I’ve never stress-eaten so many snacks or felt so isolated, annoyed and very uncertain! Coming back to school for my fourth and final year wasn’t quite what I, or anyone else, expected. It’s become so easy for me to get caught up in the negativity of things, and I’m noticing a lot of my conversations
Meghan Cappitelli | Wednesday, April 8, 2020
In grade school, I was unfortunately the nerdy kid who sat at the peanut-free table, terrified of the cafeteria’s free-ranging PB&J sandwiches and Ziplocs bursting with cashews that could kill. Allergic and afraid, I confined myself to the lonely, but safe corner. I remained in my bubble for some years, until I developed a new
Natalie Weber | Thursday, November 15, 2018
Thanksgiving has become an arguably underrated holiday, sandwiched between Halloween and Christmas. I get it — Thanksgiving doesn’t offer free candy, spooky costumes, Christmas carols or presents. But the day still deserves a little more attention than it currently gets, with the end of Halloween ushering in the Christmas season. In honor of this under
Matthew Williams | Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Expect nothing and you will enjoy everything. This sentence seems contradictory, but the idea it captures is one of the most meaningful nuggets of wisdom I’ve mined from my time at Notre Dame. It has the power to make the ordinary extraordinary, to make every day spectacular from the moment you hop out of bed,
Selena Ponio | Wednesday, March 1, 2017
I didn’t realize how much I liked breakfast. I spent last semester in Toledo, Spain, where every meal was pushed back at least three hours and breakfast just did not exist. Scrambled eggs were unheard of and boxes of cereal were a rarity in our local Suma (a chain of grocery stores in Spain). Coming
Letter to the Editor | Monday, October 3, 2016
“Do the [Notre Dame] students ever appreciate what they have, while they have it?” Dr. Tom Dooley’s words to Fr. Theodore Hesburgh haven’t always resonated with me during my time at Notre Dame. The Orgo II final exam, the polar vortex of 2014, what seemed to be the end of Feve as we knew it last
Rachel O'Grady | Wednesday, September 7, 2016
Three days before move-in this year, I walked home from brunch and watched the Olympics with my mom. Three days before move-in, I texted my roommate, elated that I was going to get to see her in three days. Three days before move-in, my roommate never responded, but her brother texted me to let me
Greg Hadley | Friday, January 15, 2016
This past Wednesday, in this very space, my colleague Miko Malabute argued we should put down our smartphones, stop watching Netflix and try to reconnect with each other. It was a very good argument, one I certainly agree with, albeit have trouble actually following through on. But the main server of The Observer was already way ahead of Miko in