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-5 posts tagged "Gratitude"
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
Wei Lin | Friday, April 25, 2014
Dear Grant, our Photo Editor Emeritus, I just wanted to start off with a haiku I wrote: I’ve gotten complaints. Your chest hair is unsightly. Grant, please, button up. Here’s where all the mushy, gushy stuff begins. It has truly been a blast working with you. You are a great photographer, leader and friend. While
Robert Alvarez | Tuesday, January 28, 2014
I’m a huge fan of the North Dining Hall lunch’s Salad of the Day. If you’d ask my mom, you’d know that this is a huge deal. Historically, I’ve despised salads. Really, I hated food in general. I thought pizza was nasty until age five. I regularly drank sodas at family parties to fill me