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Letter to the Editor | Monday, September 10, 2018
To my fellow seniors, with love The year of lasts is upon us. The year of One last Irish jig One last Victory March One last Alma Mater This year of The last dorm mass The last finals prayer The last Grotto candle This, the year of Final tailgates and marshmallow fights Last love thees
Gina Twardosz | Thursday, August 30, 2018
Since becoming a junior at Saint Mary’s, I’ve often been accosted by underclassmen in need of advice: “How did you survive your first two years?!” Well, I had a lot of bad luck, and maybe I made some mistakes, but I survived, which I believe is my raison d’etre for writing this now. So, here
Marek Mazurek | Friday, May 18, 2018
So often end-of-the-year columns talk about what a special place Notre Dame is. But it’s not. It’s a beautiful place for sure, but there are lots of beautiful campuses in the country. As an institution Notre Dame isn’t special either. It’s great academically and I will be extremely proud to receive my degree, but there
Katie Galioto | Friday, May 18, 2018
The sign is pretty wrinkled, and it’s starting to tear a little in the top right corner. Otherwise, it’s held up remarkably well over the past four years. It’s on the type of paper all elementary schools have in their art rooms, the kind that comes in big rolls. The lettering was done in red
Chris Collins | Friday, May 18, 2018
I fell into The Observer freshman year after hearing of a friend who worked for them and got paid to go to the Florida State game to take photos. This sounded too cool to be true. I decided to meagerly reach out and apply for a position in the photo department, hoping that my hobby since
Megan Valley | Friday, May 18, 2018
I am not a sentimental person, which makes attending a school like Notre Dame, whose entire identity and tradition is built on a profound sense of sentiment, a little strange at times. As second semester began to wind down, a lot of “lasts” started to be commemorated, continuing all the way up until graduation.
Michael Ivey | Friday, May 18, 2018
I remember it like it was yesterday. I had just arrived at Holy Cross College for my freshman year in late August 2014. My older brother Cameron, who attended Notre Dame, urged me to go to the extracurricular fair the University holds at the beginning of every year to see if there was anything I
Michael Yu | Friday, May 19, 2017
At the beginning of the year, I wrote a column about how I was going into senior year with some diffidence because of how little I took photos of myself enjoying the company of my friends. I may have taken dozens of thousands of photos for The Observer, but I’ve seldom appeared on the other
Emily McConville | Friday, May 19, 2017
Before my Notre Dame Google account goes away this summer, I need to do some file transfers. At the top of my to-do list is saving my Google Drive. My files are organized by semester, and they are essentially my academic life. Here are some of the ones I’ll save: Semester one: Short essays for
Raymond Ramirez | Monday, April 24, 2017
This year started on a disturbing note. As I was on a Monday morning walk near our house in Dallas, I answered a call from on my mobile phone. I normally don’t carry my phone when I walk, since I consider it a time to get away from distractions, but my mom had gone into