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How to Talk to a Second Semester Senior

How to Talk to a Second Semester Senior

By Victoria Edel and Victoria Edel January 11, 2014

As they begin their last semester of college, the members of the Class of 2014 are in a strange place. Some of them have job offers and graduate school acceptances, but many of them do not. Whether they're...

To the Future Leaders of Georgetown

By Cody Cowan September 27, 2013

Four years simply isn’t enough time. When I came to Georgetown for the first time in the spring of my junior year of college, it seemed like May 2014 was an eternity away. Yesterday, I updated the Senior...

The Procrastinator's Guide to the Galaxy: McSweeney's Open Letters

The Procrastinator’s Guide to the Galaxy: McSweeney’s Open Letters

By KP and KP May 19, 2013

Well, Hoyas, that's all she wrote. Not only has everyone finished classes for the school year, but everyone (in the Class of 2013) has also graduated. You might be thinking that you no longer have anything...

Eclectic Choices for Grad Speakers

By Mariah Byrne May 17, 2013

After an eight-month selection process, a non profit founder, a prominent health policy researcher, the Lithuanian president and a U.S. senator will speak at commencement ceremonies tomorrow for Georgetown’s...

FEATURE | Some Years, a Graduation Set Apart

By Ryan Bacic May 17, 2013

Tomorrow morning, Georgetown’s senior student-athletes will don their caps and gowns just like everyone else, wait — and maybe sleep — for hours in their seats just like everyone else and, eventually,...

Preserving Our Youth in Campus Memories

By John Morris May 16, 2013

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 Few Thanks to the Many We Leave Behind

By Joanna Foote May 16, 2013

It is a good thing that our Georgetown experience is not entirely defined by other students. I mean no offense to the 18- to 22-year-old age demographic, but I certainly can’t imagine a university...

Chance to Forge a New Legacy

By Meagan Kelly May 16, 2013

I have only one picture of myself alone taped above my desk. In it I’m no older than four years old and sporting the quintessential ’90s androgynous bull-cut. I’m smiling blissfully and more than...

21 Ways You Know You're About to Graduate from Georgetown

21 Ways You Know You’re About to Graduate from Georgetown

By Hoya Staff Writer and Hoya Staff Writer April 25, 2013

There are only three days of classes left (if we're really counting Georgetown Day as a day of class), and for the Class of 2013, this is a bittersweet fact. Some of the seniors on The Hoya pushed through...

Speakers of Substance

By The Editorial Board April 16, 2013

In between their last classroom lectures and their first workplace or graduate school orientations, the Class of 2013 will sit through one more speech, and it’s likely to be especially pertinent to their...

Just a Few Clarifications

By Jed Feiman May 18, 2012

Before we all say goodbye to our shallow acquaintances, suffer to get our dysfunctional families out of sight and say farewell to the Hilltop tomorrow, I thought it would be appropriate to clear up common...

A Call to Pay it Forward

By Brian Shaud May 17, 2012

A student cannot graduate from Georgetown without being heavily indebted. As The New York Times reported last week, Americans hold $1 trillion in outstanding student loans. A chunk of that is held by Georgetown’s...

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