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-7 posts tagged "Perseverance"
Kelsey Quint | Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Notre Dame’s Institute for Global Investing hosted the fifth annual Women’s Investing Summit (WIS) Thursday and Friday. Friday’s events kickstarted with an opening keynote speech from former Olympian alpine skier, Lindsey Vonn. Vonn is considered one of the greatest alpine skiers of all time, with 82 world cup wins and three Olympic medals. First hitting
Andrew Sveda | Monday, February 20, 2023
“And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ” (Philippians 1:6). After describing his thankfulness to God and his joy in the Philippians’ continuance in the gospel, Paul in this verse rejoices in their future, confident that God
Claire Lyons | Thursday, February 24, 2022
Early in my freshman year, I received a flirtatious text from a friend that I had absolutely no idea how to respond to. Naturally, I panicked, ignored them and went on a walk from my dorm to the grotto. By the time I got back, nearly 30 minutes passed, my head was clear and the
Caitlin Brannigan | Tuesday, February 15, 2022
Figure skating is by far my favorite Olympic sport. From the comfort of the couch in my dorm’s basement my friends and I can judge the outrageous outfits, chuckle at the commentators’ cringeworthy quips and have highly sophisticated discussions of technical elements whenever a skater slips (just for the record, I aced all of these
Mikey Colgan | Tuesday, February 8, 2022
Since middle school, when I was complaining about a mountain of work I had or an upcoming sports practice, my dad would smirk at me and say, “Just Goggins it.” This response would always irk me because I was hoping for a response that sympathized with my situation. At the time, those three words did
Caroline Humphreys | Monday, September 18, 2017
I can’t catch my breath. I’m drowning in a flood of anxiety and my heart races likes it wants to escape. I sit, staring without seeing, until my mom answers an SOS text, and begins, “What is it now?” She knows I’m having a panic attack because my obsessive personality paired with crippling anxiety has
Caitlyn Jordan | Thursday, February 18, 2016
An hour before the Notre Dame-Virginia football game, I’m standing outside the front gates of the stadium. The standard procedure for a photographer is to allow a security guard to check your equipment. I gave the man at the check-in gate my camera bags, waiting for him to give me the okay. Except, it didn’t