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-6 posts tagged "gap year"
Joey Jegier | Friday, January 27, 2023
Before coming to Notre Dame, I had never heard of discernment. Now, I would be lost without it. Discernment has not only brought joy and clarity, but it has also become the subject of my senior thesis. My research investigates the nature of discernment at Notre Dame, so I have become familiar with the theories
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
Bella Laufenberg | Friday, May 13, 2022
Devin Diggs, a neuroscience and behavior major, has been selected as Notre Dame’s class of 2022 valedictorian. Diggs will deliver the valedictory address during the commencement ceremony Sunday. Diggs hails from Olathe, Kansas, and lived in Dunne Hall on campus. In addition to his neuroscience major, Diggs completed a minor in education, schooling and society
Eva Analitis | Friday, March 25, 2022
We’ve all been an audience to an unconventional success story at some point, listening in awe as motivational speakers or inspiring figures tell us about the twists and turns of their lives: How one day they decided they were sick of their lackluster office job and walked out and started their own business. How they
Renee Yaseen | Monday, October 12, 2020
Despite being an exam so quirky and interesting that many people actually love taking it, the LSAT is not the kind of exam for which a typical education directly prepares you for. While taking an LSAT practice test back in May, a friend and I began to discuss how our respective high schools prepared us
Letter to the Editor | Thursday, November 7, 2019
It’s an understatement to say that senior year can be scary. Maybe you have been employed ever since you did that summer internship junior year. Maybe you’re the person who is applying to ten jobs a week, even if you can’t really see yourself at any of those jobs. Maybe you’re researching grad schools non-stop,