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Own It Summit 2015

Own It Summit 2015

By Online Editor March 29, 2015

Own It Summit Speaker Interviews Catch The Hoya's exclusive interviews with some of the Own It speakers, including Danielle Brooks and Megan Smith. Own It Summit: Imagination Interview Actress in...

The Power of Doing You for You

By Tithi Patel March 15, 2015

Nearly three-quarters of the way through my freshman year, I find myself at a personal standstill.  It’s almost dreamlike: I can see life moving around me — it’s alarming how quickly it’s all...

The View From the Stage

The View From the Stage

By Julia Weil March 6, 2015

  I remember my kindergarten production of “The Little Mermaid” very clearly. In the second that I wobbled dangerously from side to side, I saw several things at once. The crowd of small...

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When You Get Into College (Again)

By Bianca DiSanto February 26, 2015

"It gives me great pleasure to inform you that the Committee on Admissions has voted to accept your application for transfer admission to Georgetown University.” Admittedly, this was a sentence...

College is a Temporal Beast We Can Conquer

By Cyrena Touros February 22, 2015

When I chose to come to Georgetown, I knew full well that I was leaving behind everyone I had known from high school, which was even a swaying factor in my decision. It was going to be a fresh start no...

Criticism Prompts Reflection

By Jasmine White November 21, 2014

My last piece in this column, “Why I Won't Ever Change My Last Name” caused a bit of a stir. While I knew the topic might be seen as controversial, I never expected the response that I got. Some felt...

Why I Won’t Ever Change My Last Name

By Jasmine White November 7, 2014

At a very young age, before I had even heard of words like “feminism,” I had already decided that if I were to ever get married, I wouldn’t take my husband’s last name. My family, being the southern...

Valuing Personal Identity

By Jasmine White September 26, 2014

I’ve never had much of a problem being the minority, having attended predominately white schools for most of my education. Therefore, I expected that my experience at Georgetown would be no different...

Scotland Decides: Voices on the Vote

Scotland Decides: Voices on the Vote

By Contributors September 18, 2014

Scottish voters head to the polls today to decide the fate of the United Kingdom in a true exercise of democracy. Scotland is one of the four Home Countries that constitute the union, alongside England,...

Breaking Free From Britishness

Breaking Free From “Britishness”

By Michael Newton September 18, 2014

Many people have looked at the economic issues as the main reason to vote “yes” or “no” in the upcoming referendum. However, I do not see the issue as one of economics or politics, but rather an...

CHOLVIN & CHRISTIANSEN: Georgetown’s Beautiful, Contradictory Identity

CHOLVIN & CHRISTIANSEN: Georgetown’s Beautiful, Contradictory Identity

By Tucker Cholvin and Thomas Christiansen August 26, 2014

In his recent, over-clicked article imploring America’s (wealthy) parents not to send their kids to the Ivy League, William Deresiewicz mentions in passing that religious schools often exceed their green-leafy...

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Speaker For the Dead by Orson Scott Card

Speaking Out For True Identities

By Hannah Kaufman July 14, 2014

“Ender was a destroyer, but what he destroyed was illusion, and the illusion had to die. Somehow this ancient man is able to see the truth and it doesn’t blind his eyes or drive him mad. I must...

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