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-21 posts tagged "Senior Year"
Letter to the Editor | Thursday, November 7, 2019
It’s an understatement to say that senior year can be scary. Maybe you have been employed ever since you did that summer internship junior year. Maybe you’re the person who is applying to ten jobs a week, even if you can’t really see yourself at any of those jobs. Maybe you’re researching grad schools non-stop,
Samantha Underly | Tuesday, October 29, 2019
Every Thursday as the exhausting week winds down, my best friends and I gather for a tradition called Wine and Whine. Whether that exhaustion is from exams or staying until close at Newfs, we gather with glasses of wine in our hands, toasting to the joys and sorrows of senior year. We are able to
Kendra Osinski | Wednesday, October 16, 2019
I am a senior on the lacrosse team at Saint Mary’s. Like many others, I have felt these past four years slip away all too quickly. I feel so accomplished to have put forth so much time and effort to a team that has become like my family. The lacrosse team has made me grow,
Tom Naatz | Wednesday, September 4, 2019
As I sat in LaFun on Tuesday awaiting my turn to have my senior portrait taken, my heart began racing as I finally realized something that I have known for a long time but have never been brave enough to acknowledge. I am old. I’ve shaved consistently since high school. Usually when I shaved the
Letter to the Editor | Tuesday, April 30, 2019
I really don’t have any idea where you are right now. You might be reading this letter in some fancy office on the top floor of a skyscraper, looking down on the tiny figures who bustle to and fro on the streets below. Maybe you didn’t make it. Your basement office isn’t so luxurious. Worn-out
Courtney Becker | Friday, January 18, 2019
One week into my last semester at Notre Dame and I’m starting to make a mental list of things I want to do before I graduate in May. I’d love to attend one of every Irish team’s sporting events, visit every dorm chapel on campus — for Mass or otherwise — and go to arts
Lucy Collins | Friday, September 14, 2018
“I have measured my life in coffee spoons.” — T.S. Eliot Much as Eliot felt the need to verbalize his frustration with his place in the universe through the minute lens in which his anxious protagonist was forced to view his own life, I would like to try and summarize MY recent experience with the
Letter to the Editor | Monday, September 10, 2018
To my fellow seniors, with love The year of lasts is upon us. The year of One last Irish jig One last Victory March One last Alma Mater This year of The last dorm mass The last finals prayer The last Grotto candle This, the year of Final tailgates and marshmallow fights Last love thees
Alex Daugherty | Thursday, April 19, 2018
The possibilities are endless with a Notre Dame degree. That’s what I was told on my recruiting visit for track, what I heard at orientation, what alumni and professors ingrained in me over my four years here. However, it won’t be the technical skills I learned or even much of the academic work that ended
Stephanie Snyder | Wednesday, September 27, 2017
I am not a spontaneous person. I like to know what and when I’m going to be doing something and who I’m going to be with. Rarely, if ever, do I decide to do things impulsively. So, what made me decide to spontaneously drive home this past weekend on Friday morning when I had decided