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VIEWPOINT: Reimagine Georgetown Extracurricular Life

VIEWPOINT: Reimagine Georgetown Extracurricular Life

By Anne Poulos April 29, 2022

There’s a lot that I have learned in my first year of college. For example, attempting to do laundry on a Sunday afternoon is futile and waking up for an 8 a.m. class is not just as easy as it was in...

Rethinking Our Cura Personalis

By Parth Shah and Charlie Lowe April 22, 2016

How many times does a high school student on a Georgetown Admissions Ambassador Program weekend hear the phrase cura personalis before beginning the process of becoming a zombie Hoya, rushing to Lauinger...

It’s Good To Be Busy

By Rahul Desai April 5, 2016

Many have railed against the perceived detriments of Georgetown’s overly busy, extracurricular-oriented culture. These arguments condense into a few points. First, extracurriculars force students to...

Rethinking “Sleep When You’re Dead”

By Erika Cohen Derr and Amanda Carlton January 23, 2016

Visit the Center for Student Engagement in 316 Leavey and you will find that our intentions for Georgetown students are very clear. The emblem on the wall says it all: “Be Inspired. Get Involved. Stay...

Outside Classrooms, Engaging the Hilltop

By Joshua Dostal April 4, 2014

College tour guides have to answer dozens of questions. From “What does the blue light do?” to “Do coeds share bathrooms?”, the questions span from normal to bizarre. While many of the questions...

More Than a Tutoring Lesson

By Matthew Strauss September 23, 2011

It's Tuesday night, and Geraldine Miranda (SFS '13) waves goodbye to the van that has dropped her off in front of the small apartment in Chinatown where she tutors twice a week. She knocks on the door,...

Striving Toward Higher Ed

By Jacqueline Wangel September 23, 2011

A new campus group has taken up the cause to help underprivileged high school students reach their college dreams. Created in 2006 by Michael Carter, a student at Washington University in St. Louis,...

Think Outside the Internship Box

By The Editorial Board March 30, 2010

The hunt for the perfect summer internship consumes many a college student between January and April of every year. Internships provide students the chance to explore (or weed out) possible career paths,...

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