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Why are there so many roommate horror stories?

Rose Androwich | Monday, November 8, 2021

Dorm life is a big aspect of college especially at schools like Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s and Holy Cross, with both Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s having a residency requirement on campus, to ensure the full college experience for the students. But yet the roommate experience has a great deal of power to make or

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My scathingly brilliant ideas

Julianna Conley | Wednesday, October 6, 2021

When I was younger, my favorite movie was “The Trouble With Angels.” I loved watching the main characters’ hair-brained ideas go wrong, much to the chagrin of the nuns around them. I related so much to the main character Mary Clancy, always declaring, “I have the most scathingly brilliant idea!” only to be confused when

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How random are random roommates?

Meghan Cappitelli | Wednesday, March 4, 2020

The prospect of rooming with a total stranger is simply the cherry on top of the mountain of worries we had already built up as incoming college freshmen. All Notre Dame students felt this uneasiness during the months leading up to the disclosure of their long-awaited roommate assignments. After we had been left in the