As founder of the Treehouse Project, Oliver Friedfeld (COL ’15) is trying to help students at Georgetown understand that professional, teleological and educational concerns must still be in balance...
I grew up dreading the start of high school and middle school. As I held on to the final weeks of long nights and late mornings, the days of endless homework and 6 a.m. alarms frighteningly crept forward....
Final exams don't really matter in the grand scheme of life. Reread that last sentence. Mull it over. Let it sink in. You're probably shaking your head. No, this isn't a joke. I'm serious. Putting finals...
It’s a universally acknowledged truth that a student in possession of too little time and too much work must be in need of a long break. Last week, for example, I had about 150 pages of “Pride and...
In the past four years, Georgetown has given us more than we could have imagined. We’ve learned the intricacies of electoral politics and corporate finance, sure, but more importantly, we’ve discovered...
A college townhouse is an interesting and strange place. Many parents avoid them at all costs, horrified by the smells and artifacts of the debauchery they hope we’re not participating in. Yet we spend...
We're all on this road … to where? No one really knows. We are our own trailblazers.
There is a greater meaning to life than we can recognize. College is the place to find out what that meaning is....
The "Whiffenpoofs" are assembled "with their glasses raised on high," as the nostalgic Yale College hymn goes. The University of Maine fight-song resounds: "Lift the steins to dear old Maine…" That...
