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Isa Sheikh | Friday, September 22, 2023
I don’t ever really say this, and it goes against every grain of my being as a skeptical, rational person, but there is a part of me that oh so sincerely believes that if I tried hard enough, I could fly. Just lift off the ground and levitate. If I left every ounce of skepticism
Kate Casper | Tuesday, September 5, 2023
In my castle made of Scotch Tape and digital photographs of high school memories and broken Christmas lights and piles of graphic tees my mom is begging me to donate, I decide: It’s probably time to leave the country. It’s not that I don’t love this place, where every photo is a reminder of “something
Elizabeth Prater | Monday, September 4, 2023
You can identify a senior who studied abroad very quickly because they will bring it up within the first five minutes of any conversation upon returning. I am no different. Spending the spring semester in London reignited a passion for travel that had been dormant for the past few years. During my time in England,
Ryan Peters | Wednesday, April 26, 2023
One week ago, I was walking through the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul when several shop owners approached me at once to lure me into their store to haggle for some overpriced knick-knacks. There were maybe seven or eight shops in this particular hall and at least five shop owners approached me. I must have looked
Jose Sanchez Cordova | Friday, March 24, 2023
Money comes back. Those are the words a good friend said to me during our first week in Paris. Probably not great long-term financial advice, but he’s an econ major, so I’ve been living by those three words since. First, I realize this attitude comes from a place of privilege. I’m lucky to study at
Kathryn Muchnick | Wednesday, December 7, 2022
In August, 10 students embarked on a long journey taking them from the Eastern Europe to the middle of Indiana. Olha Droniak, a junior from Ivano-Frankivsk, a town about two hours away from Lviv, recalled being very excited about arriving at Notre Dame, but very exhausted by the travel. “Because of the war, we don’t
Kate Naessens | Monday, October 31, 2022
For those looking to gain internship experience while studying off-campus, the Notre Dame Washington Program poses an exciting and unique opportunity. Open to sophomores and juniors, the program boasts alumni who have gone on to work with The Washington Post, CNN, Facebook and in Congress. Students spend at least three days a week at their internships
The Observer | Wednesday, October 26, 2022
On Monday, a group of 14 students and two faculty members returned from their 10-day trip exploring the Galapagos Islands, off the coast of Ecuador. Jeremy Fein, professor of civil and environmental engineering and Earth sciences, and Gary Lamberti, professor of biological sciences, oversaw the excursion. Lamberti explained that this trip differed from other Notre
Sophia Michetti | Wednesday, September 28, 2022
I had a lot of expectations about how my study abroad was going to go, and none of them came to fruition the way I thought they would. Now, this isn’t to say I didn’t have the best time of my life — I definitely did. That being said, my study abroad experience taught me
Andrew Marciano | Monday, September 26, 2022
This past summer, when I studied abroad in Paris, I went with very limited knowledge of French and an intermediate amount of Spanish (which is definitely not as useful). Before you say, “what a stereotypical study abroad student only talking about his time in Europe,” hear me out — I got an understanding out of