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-10 posts tagged "perspective"
Ayden Kowalski | Monday, September 5, 2022
This past summer, I embarked on the adventure of creating an album. While artistic work is typically idealized as the realization of an unadulterated vision, I found the creative process to be a balancing act between the impulses of the audience and the various inclinations within the artist. If art imitates life, then the creative process is
Trevor Lwere | Monday, April 25, 2022
As today’s youth, we are coming of age when the world faces serious existential challenges which require new thinking and a new basis for transnational cooperation. Otherwise, we may have no earth or human life to talk about in several decades to come. Neither new thinking nor a new basis of collaboration is possible if
Mikey Colgan | Tuesday, March 15, 2022
During spring break, I was lucky to be able to spend some time with my grandfather, George Dargati, or Poppy, as I call him. After some long conversations and many laughs over meals with him and some of my family, I learned many invaluable lessons that are especially applicable to the Notre Dame community. George
Julianna Conley | Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Unpopular opinion: I am thankful for the coronavirus. I am grateful for the quarantine. I am glad to be home. The day Fr. Jenkins’ message to students announced the move to online classes, I was devastated. Like many other students, I felt robbed. Cheated of one-eighth of my college experience. Heartbroken by the thought of
Emma Farnan | Wednesday, October 10, 2018
The past year of my life has been incredibly exciting and eye-opening. In addition to expanding my academic horizon with every other student at Notre Dame, I have also taken medically prescribed hormones each day to physically transition into a woman. I am transgender and have finally been living as myself, a woman, for the
Letter to the Editor | Monday, December 4, 2017
“How are you doing?” “I’m good!” Every day I hear these words, and every day they strike me as fake and superficial. There seems to be this unspoken rule that says a Notre Dame student must act as if we have everything under control. When asked, students will say they are balancing all of their
Matthew Williams | Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Expect nothing and you will enjoy everything. This sentence seems contradictory, but the idea it captures is one of the most meaningful nuggets of wisdom I’ve mined from my time at Notre Dame. It has the power to make the ordinary extraordinary, to make every day spectacular from the moment you hop out of bed,
Caroline Humphreys | Tuesday, August 22, 2017
I sit here trying to write about love as I kill the ants crawling over my computer keys. I’m in Thailand, and seemed to confuse “simple” and “rustic” when looking to get away and unblock my chakras or whatever soul searching I had in mind. My friend Steph sits opposite me, applauding the mosquitoes she
Neil Joseph | Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Last week, C-SPAN released a ranking of every president by assembling a poll of a variety of historians. The ranking, which can be found here, had many controversial placements that liberals, conservatives, commentators and historians all found to be upsetting. Here’s what I think about a few of the rankings. No. 1 through No. 3 have been
Emily McConville | Thursday, November 20, 2014
The summer before my freshman year, a neighbor lent me a copy of the 1938 Dome yearbook. I spent a lunchtime looking at old pictures of the dining hall, the football team, the ads from long-gone South Bend businesses. I enjoyed looking at the idyllic representation of the University 75 years before I would set