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-6 posts tagged "purpose"
Joey Jegier | Friday, January 27, 2023
Before coming to Notre Dame, I had never heard of discernment. Now, I would be lost without it. Discernment has not only brought joy and clarity, but it has also become the subject of my senior thesis. My research investigates the nature of discernment at Notre Dame, so I have become familiar with the theories
Reyna Lim | Friday, November 18, 2022
I have very little idea of what purpose means, but today I’m writing about it anyway. This is how I make sense of things. I’ve addressed it in this column before: purpose, meaning, being 21 and utterly confused. My dedication to seeming continually lost is less of an artistic choice, and more of a direct
Mikey Colgan | Tuesday, March 29, 2022
I am a very predictable dude. When I’m at school, I spend my week doing homework in the same two locations and going to the gym right next to my dorm. When the weekend comes around, I end up in the same room with the same group of friends. Until I moved to Boston in
Erin McAuliffe | Friday, May 13, 2016
The Class of 2016 walked onto campus on Aug. 19, 2012 with “Call Me Maybe” still ringing in their ears — the result of both tear-filled parent drop-offs and Carly Rae Jepsen’s summer single. From 2012’s countless car karaokes and parodies to Jepsen’s 2015 perfect pop album “E*MO*TION”, the Class of 2016 has matured
Kelly McGarry | Monday, November 16, 2015
The entrance into adulthood is an interesting one for any teenage heartthrob, and Justin Bieber has had his share of bumps along the way. No longer a puppet of the industry, Bieber emerges as an artist with the new album “Purpose.” Working with the progressive production of Skrillex and Diplo was a power move for
Charlie Ducey | Sunday, September 20, 2015
Let’s face it: Swedish art films are weird. Much of what comes out of Sweden is weird — Swedish meatballs, Swedish Fish (why are they so red?), those self assembly Ikea chairs, Zlatan Ibrahimović. But as far as weirdness goes, Swedish cinema takes the cake. I had the disconcerting pleasure of watching a Swedish art film this past