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61 posts tagged "Graduation"

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‘Leave Meeting’: The final click of undergrad

Mary Bernard | Friday, May 15, 2020

On Wednesday, April 29, I clicked “Leave Meeting” on Zoom — and just like that, my undergraduate career was behind me. I was in the living room, alone. Out the window, life in downtown Philadelphia whirred slowly. A few cars drove by. People wearing masks were lined up, six feet apart, outside of Trader Joe’s.

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Forward progress

Tom Naatz | Friday, May 15, 2020

As a three-and-a-half-year tour guide, I can basically recite the end of the admissions info sessions by heart. The final line in particular is seared in my memory. “When you come to Notre Dame,” the cheerful counselor — almost always an alumnus/alumna — begins, “you’re really not just coming here for four years. Notre Dame

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A broken kind of love

Kelli Smith | Friday, May 15, 2020

It wasn’t supposed to end this way. On March 5, I rolled my suitcase out of my apartment on Eddy Street without so much as a glance toward Notre Dame’s campus. My thoughts could only focus on the immediate days ahead, which would be filled with the beaming Cancún sun, piña coladas and lounging on

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Saint Mary’s seniors share highlights of collegiate experiences

Julianna McKenna | Friday, May 15, 2020

Despite great uncertainty and sudden changes that cut their senior year short, the Saint Mary’s class of 2020 had no shortage of great memories to share about their college experience as they reflected on their time as Belles.  For business administration major Maggie Cloud, her favorite Saint Mary’s memory happened during her first week of

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What I hope for

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

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A letter to COVID-19

Gabriel Niforatos | Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Dear COVID-19, It is not often we write letters to that which we despise, but you have touched so many spheres of life, impacted so many lives and changed so much that I find I cannot help but write to you. It is an understatement to say it is a chore writing to you. I

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Thank you, Saint Mary’s

Gina Twardosz | Tuesday, April 21, 2020

During freshman orientation at Saint Mary’s, we close the circle. It sounds rather cultish, doesn’t it? At least, that’s how I saw it, almost four years ago, in the midst of my pitiful “I don’t want to be here” malaise.  At age 18, I was a misguided Ed Sheeran fan. Sheeran didn’t have a back-up

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An ode to four years under the Dome

Letter to the Editor | Friday, April 17, 2020

As a frequent reader of The Observer during my time working at ND Listens, I’ve noticed that it’s usually around this time of year when a senior writes some sort of reflection piece. I figured I’d take the baton this time around. The sad part is that doing this requires me to finally own that

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To the class of 2020

Letter to the Editor | Thursday, April 16, 2020

To the class of 2020, The impact of COVID-19 has not only disrupted our final year of undergrad, but it has eliminated the hallmark celebration of our hard work that we have looked forward to for so long. Coronavirus has impeded our opportunity to get closure from the successes and failures that made us into

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The senior list of demands

Danny McMaster | Tuesday, April 7, 2020

I’ll be honest. This really, deeply — in a way that cannot be overstated — is bad. The coronavirus is something I do not like at all, and I harbor no positive feelings towards it or the things it associates with. I don’t like it at all. If I saw it, I would try and

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After a win against Louisville on Saturday, The Ba After a win against Louisville on Saturday, The Basement Breakdown, The Observer’s sports podcast, is back with some Pittsburgh predictions.  Some highlights from the stream include:

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