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-21 posts tagged "change"
Jackie O'Brien | Thursday, April 23, 2020
Graduating from the University of Notre Dame was my greatest childhood aspiration. It began with my earliest memories of attending a football game once or twice a year. I remember everything from the drive to campus, parking in White Field, hot chocolate at the games and of course sleeping in the back of the car
Julianna Conley | Thursday, November 14, 2019
Like many ridiculously attractive young adults in coming-of-age films, I changed a lot this semester. That’s right, ladies and gentlemen: I’ve officially made the switch to mint toothpaste. For readers lacking intimate knowledge of my teeth brushing habits, I’ve spent the last 19 years polishing my pearly whites with Disney Princess bubblegum. An ardent opponent
Show Some Skin | Wednesday, September 18, 2019
No one ever really warns you about junior year. No one talks about the anxiety that comes when you remember that you’re halfway through the door. The dread that flushes over you when others ask, “So, what are your plans after college?” with increasing sincerity. The insignificance of being the campus middle child, not young
Erin Grimes | Wednesday, February 6, 2019
Hallo again from Innsbruck! My first semester here has just ended and a much-needed month long break has started. (The semester timing in Austria is different than the timing in the United States.) Here’s a small list of what have I learned this semester: how to navigate through airports and train stations, how to be
Gabriel Niforatos | Tuesday, December 4, 2018
If I had to sum up a theme that links all of my articles for The Observer this semester, I would sum it up in one word — change. This article is not meant to provide the casual reader with solutions to overhaul the problems and divisions in the political, economic and social spheres. Rather,
Raymond Ramirez | Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Seen from the lofty vantages north of the Red River or west of El Paso, Texas, politics often seems to be a dreary unchanging cavalcade of mediocre statesmen full of brittle, bitter men with little regard and plenty of disdain for the poor, the vulnerable and the oppressed. The national news seemed to affirm this
Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, September 19, 2018
If you are anything like me, you rejoiced when you saw on Aug. 31, Netflix added the fifth season “The Great British Baking Show” to its lineup. I have just recently completed the rollercoaster of emotions called season 5 (or collection 5 if you’re pretentious) and have mixed emotions, both about the season and the
Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, August 22, 2018
We’re often told to be the change we want to see in the world, but changing the world is a daunting task. There are billions of people on Earth who you will never get to meet and probably won’t influence in any way over your lifetime. This huge responsibility is one reason many studying in
Letter to the Editor | Tuesday, December 5, 2017
As our path leads us past the gates of complacence and our steps take us beyond the gaits of compliance, a moment is transformed into a movement larger than the space our bodies take up marching through the streets. Where I grew up, the act of protesting was a routine expression of civic duty. I
Caroline Humphreys | Tuesday, August 22, 2017
I sit here trying to write about love as I kill the ants crawling over my computer keys. I’m in Thailand, and seemed to confuse “simple” and “rustic” when looking to get away and unblock my chakras or whatever soul searching I had in mind. My friend Steph sits opposite me, applauding the mosquitoes she