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College Scraps Unpopular Classes Before Add-Drop

By Toby Hung November 18, 2014

The Office of the College Dean has instructed department heads to delete courses that do not meet an eight-student enrollment minimum during pre-registration in order to minimize costs and inefficiency,...

5 Snapchats You Definitely Got This Weekend

5 Snapchats You Definitely Got This Weekend

By Catherine McNally and Catherine McNally November 17, 2014

Picture this. It’s Sunday morning and find yourself waking up bright and early rolling out of bed around 11:30 a.m. with a pounding headache. Your Brita pitcher is all the way across the room in your...

The Ways and Woes of The College Experience

The Ways and Woes of The College Experience

By Contributors November 6, 2014

Resolved, a bi-weekly column on Chatter, features viewpoints from members of the Philodemic Society on the topic of this week’s debate. This week, Philodemic debates the changing face of modern...

Negative: ‘College,’ So-Called

By Jeff Naft November 6, 2014

Is there a so called ‘College Experience?’ Most parents and students would say that the answer is yes. The ‘College Experience’ can be defined as challenging yourself and making new friends...

Volume V: No Place Like Home (Except Not Really)

Volume V: No Place Like Home (Except Not Really)

By Amy Von Hoyatrapp November 6, 2014

Hey Amy, So I think I have this problem. I went home the past weekend and and saw my boyfriend for the first time since I left for school. It was nice; I mean we had a nice time because it'd been...

Mastering the Movie Night

Mastering the Movie Night

By Elizabeth Harvey and Elizabeth Harvey October 9, 2014

Every now and then, even the most self-possessed Georgetown students will come to find themselves at the point where they just. Can't. Even. Whether you've been #raging every night or you've spent so...

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Volume III: The One-Month Jitters

By Amy Von Hoyatrapp October 9, 2014

Hey Amy,  So a little about me: I'm a freshman in the College from New Jersey. It's now been about a month since NSO and moving in and stuff, but the one thing that gets me worried sometimes is...

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Commencement 2014 in Photos

By The Hoya Staff May 17, 2014

Georgetown College School of Nursing and Health Studies School of Foreign Service McDonough School of Business  

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Consolmagno Emphasizes Education Beyond Graduation

By Ian Tice May 17, 2014

Vatican astronomer Br. Guy Consolmagno, S.J., addressed the Georgetown College Class of 2014 in a speech this morning, focusing on the role of truth in education. The ceremony began at 9 a.m., with...

Scholastic Affirmation Without Grade Inflation

By Derek Buyan April 25, 2014

From kindergarten onward, parents send their children to school expecting that they will return home having learned something. If not a fact or a skill, the thing that parents trust our schools to teach...

Why We DONT Miss High School

Why We DON’T Miss High School

By Sydney Bolling and Sydney Bolling March 11, 2014

Now that we’re all on spring break and some of us are home for the week, you’re probably feeling nostalgic and reflecting on your pre-college life, or you’re somewhere warm lying on a beach with...

Finding Love in the Midst of Ambition

By Victoria Edel February 25, 2014

The Wall Street Journal recently ran an op-ed by Susan Patton, who is infamous for a letter she wrote in The Daily Princetonian last year, in which she urged college women to stop focusing so much on their...

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