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-12 posts tagged "Gratitude"
Maria Leontaras | Friday, May 1, 2020
During spring break, everything seemed big and shiny and bright and new. I was a week into being Editor-in-Chief, and nothing had collapsed yet. I was visiting Los Angeles to see where I’d be living and working for the summer. I was going to see a magic show and head back to school to congratulate
Cate Von Dohlen | Friday, April 24, 2020
When I arrived at Notre Dame as a freshman, I thought walking around campus to class was so fun. It was on these walks from the random science building to O’Shag to DeBart where I nurtured friendships from Welcome Weekend, my dorm and anywhere else I seemed to meet people. The game of “Do they
Mary Freeman | Friday, May 17, 2019
I have learned many things in my time here at Notre Dame. One of these is that properly expressing depth of feeling with language is entirely impossible. I could sit here and write and re-write line after line of this farewell, but no matter what I say it likely will fall short of expressing how
Letter to the Editor | Monday, April 29, 2019
Last August, 15 of us walked onto this beautiful campus as a part of a new program called the Inspired Leadership Initiative. “Many” years have passed since we were undergraduate students ourselves, and we were unsure of what to expect as we attended classes with you all. Some of us had never stepped foot at
Mariah Rush | Tuesday, April 2, 2019
This past week I spent a good chunk of my time trying to work Stevie Wonder’s rendition of the song “Sunny” into my theology paper — we were supposed to compare a piece of art to a biblical passage. While I don’t think my paper went over very well, I did spend some time thinking
Campus Ministry | Monday, March 4, 2019
It finally happened. After months and months, it finally clicked. For two years, each time our now three-year-old daughter was given something, whether it be a toy, candy, crayon, coloring book, tissue or whatever, either my wife or I would say the same phrase, “Felicity, what do you say?” “Thank you… (insert giver’s name here).”
Gary Caruso | Friday, November 16, 2018
While on my way to work on Thursday, waiting for a red light to change, I glanced at a lump of blankets piled in a bus stop shelter. A skinny, fragile hand extended from the mound and slowly fed morsels of a candy bar to a partially exposed, thin, drawn elderly jaw. With the Thanksgiving
Jack Rooney | Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Alright, this one snuck up on me. Last year around this time, I sat down to compose what I thought then would be my last piece for The Observer. I took nearly a month to craft my commencement column, my farewell to a school that became home and a newspaper that became family. I wrote
Erin Thomassen | Friday, March 31, 2017
I didn’t nominate a professor for a University award until my senior year at Notre Dame. I have had both stellar and less than stellar professors throughout the years, but I didn’t believe I had enough of a personal connection to a particular one to write a compelling nomination. Every year when the email urging
Letter to the Editor | Thursday, December 8, 2016
Dear Notre Dame students and staff, My life changed for the better the moment I stepped onto the University of Notre Dame’s beautiful campus. The one goal I had set in my mind to achieve was to become a better man, a Notre Dame man. After growing through many trials and triumphs, the thing I’ve