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-12 posts tagged "college life"
Claire Kirner | Monday, September 13, 2021
Will I do important research for a bio lab? Teach English to children in Uganda? Become an Imagineer for a Disney theme park? Growing up in South Bend, and surrounded by ND students as a kid, it’s safe to say I had pretty high expectations for my freshman year at Notre Dame. These incredible people
Devin Humphreys | Tuesday, August 24, 2021
As the year opens at Our Lady’s University, with undergrads returning to the dorms and giving their “Notre Dame introductions,” law students like myself cracking open our casebooks in hopes of not bombing a cold call and campus bustling with activity once again, I am ever cognizant of the presence of God on this campus.
Renee Yaseen | Monday, March 29, 2021
In the past few years, I’ve heard a lot of “Life is short!” but also, “You’re still young, you’ve got so much time left!” Well, which one is it? Evidence that life is short: Life is never shorter than right before you cut your bangs. The seconds before I’ve spoken out of turn are thin
Sarah Kikel | Thursday, March 25, 2021
If there were a college poet laureate, I would nominate Maude Latour. A songwriter who studies philosophy at Columbia University, Maude has been deeply inspired by her life on campus, and her music weaves together imagery that is both biographical and derived from her exploration of classic literature. Her lyrics are a lot like Sappho’s
Megumi Tamura | Thursday, September 17, 2020
If you could have more of anything in the entire world, what would it be? Would you ask for more money, vacations, pizza? Frequent flier miles, love, concert tickets? Game day weekends, Southwest Salads, warm weather? The more days I experience in college, the stronger I feel in my answer to this question: If I
Sydni Brooks | Tuesday, August 18, 2020
My acceptance letter to Notre Dame equated to an all-access pass to the club of adulthood. While I still felt and acted like a 12 year old, that “Welcome Home” email was the permission I needed to surpass the constraints of adolescence and indulge in the authority of a grown woman. I coasted through my
Claire Rafford | Tuesday, August 18, 2020
We’ve all been there. Homework is piling up, and you have three meetings in two hours plus a huge event to plan for hall council. Drowning in stress, you cancel your workout, skip your dinner date with your best friend and reschedule your weekly FaceTime with your mom — just to get everything done. Even
Renee Yaseen | Monday, August 17, 2020
“Having just digested all the New York Times and some pretty awful clam-chowder I made for myself, I don’t feel the slightest bit literary, just stupid. Or maybe it’s just too much solitude.” — Elizabeth Bishop, in her letters to the poet Robert Lowell Hi, it’s me. Writing to you from … not Here. I
Edward Brunicardi | Thursday, August 13, 2020
I won’t be the first to say it. College life, kinda sucks. Or at least now it does. Friends can’t go in our rooms, classes have gone back to 2nd grade assigned seating and weekend parties (technically) aren’t allowed. What was supposed to be our once in a lifetime chance to experience a new world
Veronica Navarro | Monday, April 27, 2020
The transition out of high school and into college is difficult for almost everyone. We’re forced to release attachments to teachers and friends, and many of us will say goodbye to our first-ever love interest. Serious or not, losing this relationship can cause a lot of hurt for a teenager. At least for me, although