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-5 posts tagged "Perseverance"
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