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The Choices We Carry

The Choices We Carry

By Anonymous April 15, 2016

It has been eight months and 15 days since it happened and I still cannot say the word out loud. Even typing it out feels strange. Not because it is painful or difficult, but because I do not identify...

MANDAL: Seeing the Reality Beyond Our Senses

By Ayan Mandal April 15, 2016

This world contains realities that we were not born to perceive. For instance, the Earth’s magnetic field constantly passes through each person, yet it passes unnoticed. Students of biology know this...

Humanizing the U.S.-Mexican Border

By Grace Laria April 1, 2016

As the hot desert sun beat down on sand and concrete, a woman waved to us from behind a chain-link fence. “We love having visitors,” she said with her words easily passing through the metal barrier...

OWSIANY: Study Abroad’s Real Cost

OWSIANY: Study Abroad’s Real Cost

By Laura Owsiany September 25, 2015

In the spring semester of 2015, I studied abroad in London, one of the most expensive cities in the world, for five months. I frequently found myself feeling caught between the cost of doing something...

Perspectives

Perspectives

By Caitlin Karna August 30, 2015

This week (finally) marks the beginning of returning students migrating to campus. No matter how we spent our summers — at home, abroad, working or in D.C. — we all now come back to the place we share,...

Travelled Perspective

Travelled Perspective

By Sebastian Nicholls August 16, 2015

In “Roughing It,” Mark Twain wrote: “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness.” I have been lucky this year to travel to places — both in the United States and abroad — that...

Hard Work Provides Perspective

Hard Work Provides Perspective

By Katherine Cienkus August 12, 2015

When I think back to how I started the summer, it was in the “slowing down” mentality. How far from reality this expectation was. This summer was completely hectic. Between babysitting and having...

Treasuring My Time at Home and Abroad

Treasuring My Time at Home and Abroad

By Opinion Editor October 29, 2014

Whether or not you trained for it, a semester spent studying abroad is a marathon. In the pursuit of “making the most of the short time abroad,” the only moments of rest are utilized recharging for...

Why You Should Rethink Studying Abroad

By Paul Healy July 25, 2014

Georgetown makes studying abroad almost effortless. Walk into the office of international programs, attend an info session and fill out an application that certifies you have a pulse and a GPA above 3.0....

Auditors Heighten Discussion

By Sam Abrams January 14, 2014

Professor Marilyn McMorrow’s 10 students sat on couches and chairs in her McCarthy Hall apartment discussing their final essays for “Just War Theory in the 21st Century.” It was the last week...

Students Recount MTV Experience

By Meghan Patzer October 29, 2012

MTV filmed students asking questions of President Barack Obama live in Healy Circle Friday afternoon. MTV News correspondent Andrew Jenks interviewed nearly 40 students, who were selected by the MTV...

MEANEY & HOYT: Opening Our Minds by Unplugging Our Lives

By Michael Meaney and Matthew Hoyt October 18, 2011

When famous violinist Joshua Bell performed at a D.C. Metro station a few years ago, he received no fanfare. In fact, no one seemed to notice. For over an hour he played before a constant stream of pedestrians....

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