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-32 posts tagged "Senior Year"
Letter to the Editor | Monday, August 24, 2020
Classmates and friends, Over our last three years, we’ve shared some outstanding memories and watched previous seniors create their own. As the experiences cumulated, we could envision what the fall semester of our senior year at Notre Dame would entail. It would have been welcoming the first-year students into your dorm culture. It would have
Gabriel Niforatos | Monday, August 24, 2020
Looking across the room at my M.C. Escher print entitled “Hand with Reflecting Sphere” has made me think. M.C. Escher was a Dutch graphic artist whose work in the early to mid-twentieth century is characterized by the interplay between reality and fantasy, often incorporating geometric figures that would be impossible within his works. The way
Mia Marroquin | Friday, August 21, 2020
Senior year. The last ride. One final hurrah. It didn’t really hit me that I was entering my fourth and final year at Saint Mary’s until I stood on The Avenue with some of my closest friends, jumping up and down welcoming first-years to their new home. I quickly realized that I had become that
Jackie O'Brien | Thursday, April 23, 2020
Graduating from the University of Notre Dame was my greatest childhood aspiration. It began with my earliest memories of attending a football game once or twice a year. I remember everything from the drive to campus, parking in White Field, hot chocolate at the games and of course sleeping in the back of the car
Vince Mallett | Thursday, April 23, 2020
It’s a common Notre Dame stereotype that everyone believes their residence hall to be the best. For my last column of the year, I am going to argue that this belief is true for one hundred men on campus. Well, ‘on campus’ is a stretch, but that’s an argument for another day. Let’s start with my own
Gabriel Niforatos | Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Dear COVID-19, It is not often we write letters to that which we despise, but you have touched so many spheres of life, impacted so many lives and changed so much that I find I cannot help but write to you. It is an understatement to say it is a chore writing to you. I
Letter to the Editor | Friday, April 17, 2020
As a frequent reader of The Observer during my time working at ND Listens, I’ve noticed that it’s usually around this time of year when a senior writes some sort of reflection piece. I figured I’d take the baton this time around. The sad part is that doing this requires me to finally own that
Ben Testani | Thursday, March 26, 2020
On March 5, I published a bucket list of sorts for my senior spring. In what quickly became one of the greatest jinxes I have ever pulled off, it has become clear to me that I will not be able to accomplish all of these goals this spring. I may never set foot in Hesburgh
Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, March 18, 2020
As students are ushered home from abroad and campus alike and a global pandemic as declared by the World Health Organization increases its grasp on society, a specific subset of the college population is mourning in a different way. College seniors across the nation have seen their academic careers come to an unexpected halt with
Ben Testani | Thursday, March 5, 2020
When this week concludes, I will have a mere one-sixteenth of my time as an undergraduate remaining. The temperature has crept above 40° for consecutive days. The blinds in my house are open to let in precious sunlight. St. Patrick’s Day looms large, as Irish across campus prepare to celebrate the holiday on campus