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-5 posts tagged "Transition"
Alysa Guffey | Monday, February 28, 2022
As of the publication of this column, I have been Editor-in-Chief for 24 hours. It feels a little surreal that the time has arrived, but I also can already feel the time ticking. College has taught me that a lot can happen in a year but that a year also goes fast. In the past
Show Some Skin | Wednesday, September 18, 2019
No one ever really warns you about junior year. No one talks about the anxiety that comes when you remember that you’re halfway through the door. The dread that flushes over you when others ask, “So, what are your plans after college?” with increasing sincerity. The insignificance of being the campus middle child, not young
Emma Farnan | Wednesday, October 10, 2018
The past year of my life has been incredibly exciting and eye-opening. In addition to expanding my academic horizon with every other student at Notre Dame, I have also taken medically prescribed hormones each day to physically transition into a woman. I am transgender and have finally been living as myself, a woman, for the
Rachel O'Grady | Friday, May 19, 2017
Editor’s Note: A version of this story was published April 3. Though outgoing student body president Corey Robinson’s time in office has come to an end, he and outgoing vice president Becca Blais used their term to begin a number of enduring initiatives — ones that would not have been possible without the duo’s focus on teamwork,
Jack Rooney | Thursday, March 3, 2016
I began my term as Managing Editor while studying abroad in Dublin last March. I watched from afar, entirely helpless and useless as my friends at the paper transitioned into their new roles while they covered the biggest story of their Notre Dame careers when Fr. Hesburgh died. As much as I wanted to, I