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-13 posts tagged "College experience"
Emma Duffy | Friday, March 24, 2023
On March 23, TRIO hosted “Shadow for a Day.” High school students from the South Bend area were assigned a host student from Notre Dame to experience a day in the life of a college student. TRIO’s two programs on campus are Upward Bound and Talent Search. Upward Bound is a college preparatory program that
Gabriel Zarazua | Monday, October 31, 2022
Dear Art, You have been with me since the day I was born. You helped me when I was bored at school, doodling when I should’ve been paying attention to my teachers. When my asthma was at my worst as a child, you helped keep me company when I couldn’t play with the other kids.
The Observer | Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Editor’s note: This letter contains discussions of self-harm and mental health. Editor’s note: This letter also contains spoilers for Gilmore Girls. In Season 5, Episode 8, Rory Gilmore makes the decision to not return to Yale for what would have been the fall semester of her junior year of college. Honestly, the first time I
Alexa Schlaerth | Thursday, September 15, 2022
It is almost 10 p.m. on a cold Sunday evening in December, and I am walking across the quad on my way home from a (somewhat frantic) Principles of Microeconomics TA review sesh, the likes of which I’ve never experienced before. It is chilly and dark, and the campus has a general “stressed out pre-finals”
Reyna Lim | Wednesday, August 31, 2022
My parents are sitting in the living room with the 9 p.m. news on, my mom sipping on a cup of tea. College move-in is only a week away and my bags are all over the house, haphazardly overflowing with clothes, bedsheets and books. “I think I want to take a year off,” I tell
Olivia Schatz | Friday, August 19, 2022
When I walked onto campus as a first year in 2019, I had this belief that I was going to do everything. I had written for my high school newspaper and had my eyes set on writing for the Observer. I was an intense lacrosse player my entire life and planned on trying out for
Simon Vogel | Wednesday, October 6, 2021
Once again, it is fall in the Bend. According to the sun, the Earth and the Encyclopedia Britannica, this means that on Sept. 22 the sun’s annual pathway and the celestial equator intersected, and that the division between night and day was equal. According to us students, this means themed Starbucks drinks, hoodies and scarves,
Alysa Guffey | Friday, September 3, 2021
I got my ears pierced at 20 years old; I am currently 20 years old. I subsequently bought three pairs of earrings because I was so excited I could finally shop for earrings; upon college move-in, I lost said pairs of earrings. Now, I am left with one lone pair of earrings that can never
Kaley Gresham | Friday, March 1, 2019
Saint Mary’s hosted the First-Generation Student Panel Thursday night in the basement of the Student Center explored the difficulties that these students may face. It featured two College faculty members — associate professor of communication sciences and disorders Susan Latham and professor of social work Leonardo Sanchez. Seniors Shameka Turner and Sonia Torres also spoke at the
Avery Wythe | Monday, February 25, 2019
In October of their freshman year, twins Connor and Ryan Powers and Connor and Ryan Green initially met due to a set of odd coincidences. The two sets of twins shared the same first names, birth month and future commencement ceremony. Now seniors, both sets of twins are reflecting upon their unique college experience. Not