Much needed reform promised by the Obama administration has come to the U.S. education system in the form of stimulus dollars, but whether this is change we can believe in has yet to be seen. This...

It's been a summer of discontent for commuters on D.C.'s Metrorail system. Massive fare hikes have taken their toll on daily subway riders, and more bad news has recently surfaced. Last Wednesday,...

Victory. I read the word recently. It's such a triumphant word. It looks a little wimpy there at the top of the page without an exclamation point, actually. It looked especially weak when I read it, because...

It was the bane of many young second and third graders' existence. It took hundreds of class hours and repetitive exercises to perfect. It was a staple of elementary education, and was advertised as the...

Move-in week kicks off a frenzied period for freshmen. Between navigating New Student Orientation, bonding with new roommates and accepting the fact that dorm closets are smaller than expected, move-in...

For those of you entering the gates of Georgetown for the first time, the university can feel like a world away from anything previously known. It is, in fact, a refuge - a place of contemplative thought...

THUMBS UP: New Beginnings - A brand new class of freshmen and transfer students are arriving on campus this weekend ready to embark on their Georgetown journey. THUMBS UP: Better Late Than Never -...

To date, the Young Leaders in Education About Diversity pre-orientation program is the best thing I have done for myself. I realize that's a loaded statement, but I mean it - even after two years at Georgetown,...

Sports have had a lackluster shine recently. In the past 12 months we've seen Tiger Woods' armor reduced to rubble as the seedy underbelly of his personal life surfaced. NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year...

The Obama staffers and community leaders with whom I spent my break between sophomore and junior years referred to our campaign as Freedom Summer 2008. Decades after courageous, radical young women and...

Trying to sum up my experience at Georgetown in a few hundred words is either an exercise in impracticality or omission - I can't decide which. Virtually every draft I had started on my way to this final...

Remember "Pay It Forward?" It was that semi-popular film released in 2000 starring Haley Joel Osment, the creepy kid from "The Sixth Sense." The premise of the movie is that an over-involved social studies...