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Existing in the grey

Ciara Hopkinson | Wednesday, November 15, 2017

I remember the first time I realized things don’t always pan out as we expect. It was junior year of high school, two weeks in, the day I got my first physics test back and had a mini mid-life crisis. For someone who was convinced she wanted to be a famous female engineer for all

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So what do you love?

Rosie LoVoi | Tuesday, September 12, 2017

You know the drill when you meet someone at Notre Dame: “Hi, my name is ____, I’m from ____, I live in ____ and I’m studying ____.” We say these things because they’re the traits that define us. In college, one of the most important parts of an individual’s identity is what he or she studies.

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Professors instruct humanities class at Indiana prison

Lucas Masin-Moyer | Tuesday, March 7, 2017

During the spring of 2016, Pierpaolo Polzonetti, a professor in the Program of Liberal Studies (PLS), made the 45-minute trip from South Bend to Westville, Indiana, every week to teach a course on opera history. Polzonettis’s class in Westville was unlike anything he taught at Notre Dame — the final destination on his trip was

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What is called thinking?

Benjamin Padanilam | Monday, February 1, 2016

“What is called thinking?” Most of my classmates from Philosophical Inquiry last semester would laugh when posed with this question. Asking it became a running joke that stemmed from the title of a series of lectures by Martin Heidegger that we read, as it became a symbol our experience as a group in this particular