At Georgetown University, there is a premium on knowing: the right answer in class, the right internship for summer, the right job after graduation. Those who play this game well often pull ahead. But...
These days, cultural discourse often laments the lack of a so-called third space — an informal social environment that is neither home nor work. Perhaps that helps explain the outcry against the recent...
The Campus Opinion section is being revived from late 1990s editions of The Hoya. The aim of this column is to compile a variety of perspectives on campus. In each installment, a question is posed to the...
As new and returning students made their way to Georgetown University’s campus, a welcome-back barbecue and the promise of new classes awaited. Yet this year, students were also greeted with the threatening...
When my parents visited me at college for the first time, they were impressed by how many people I greeted on the way from the front gates to my dorm. It’s one of the things I love about Georgetown:...
On a warm spring evening late last year, I joined a group of students to celebrate what would ultimately be one of the most meaningful moments of my undergraduate career: the unionization of Georgetown...
We are concerned with the referendum that the Georgetown University Student Association (GUSA) put forth for the undergraduate student body to vote on from April 26 to 28.
The referendum, titled “ACT...
When I write, I have one primary goal: I want you to bleed. I want the knife of my words to cut your soul and leave you there wondering how to fix the emotional mess.
At my worst, I am a plastic kitchen...
As seniors on Georgetown University’s College Academic Council (CAC), we’ve collaborated with professors, deans and university stakeholders for four years. As first-years, we led the successful charge...
“I’m waiting for it, that green light, I want it.”
These lyrics from Lorde’s “Green Light” rang in my head when I returned to Georgetown University for the Spring semester of my first year....
After campaigning on an expansive platform spanning reforms to meal plans, installing swings and faithful communication between GUSA and the student body, Georgetown University Student Association (GUSA)...
I was in high school when I first read Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s 1833 poem “Ulysses,” which chronicles the title character’s reflection on his years of travel, as recorded in Homer’s “Odyssey.”...
