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The Laultimate Film Collection

The Laultimate Film Collection

By Emily Min and Emily Min February 23, 2014

Oh, Lauinger Library. You're the home of broken dreams and reduced ambitions. You're also literally home for some unfortunate students during finals season. Maybe you haven’t noticed, but recently Lau...

HoyaWinter OlympicSaxa: The Olympics, Georgetown-Flavored

HoyaWinter OlympicSaxa: The Olympics, Georgetown-Flavored

By Emily Min and Emily Min February 7, 2014

Oslo, Lake Placid, Nagano, Vancouver. Are these future celebrity children names? Close, but no. These are really the past sites of the Winter Olympics. You heard right, THE OLYMPICS! This year, the Winter...

How It Feels to Start Classes Again

How It Feels to Start Classes Again

By Courtney Klein and Courtney Klein January 8, 2014

By now most, if not all, of you are done with the Christmas cookies and never-ending family time. The holidays were fun, but now it's back to the Hilltop we love and the schoolwork we hate. It goes a little...

The Finals Coffee Drinking Game

The Finals Coffee Drinking Game

By Marnie Wallach and Marnie Wallach December 18, 2013

At this point in the week, Lau-goers have become downright restless. With the Christmas lights at the end of the tunnel, it's time to push through those last few papers and memorize those last few chapters...

Struggle City: the Best and the Worst of the Finals Wall

Struggle City: the Best and the Worst of the Finals Wall

By Matt Sullivan and Matt Sullivan December 17, 2013

Every semester, it's the same trip to Struggle City for us Hoyas. Whether you're writing a 20-page paper, studying for Orgo or just avoiding all of life on Lau 2, finals week at Georgetown gets really...

Ideal Alternatives to Studying

Ideal Alternatives to Studying

By Marnie Wallach and Marnie Wallach December 15, 2013

It's been over a week since the last day of classes, and finals studying is in full force. The prospect of two weeks on campus with no classes seemed like it might be fun. There would be so much time for...

Laungevity: Signs You've Been in Lau for Too Long

Laungevity: Signs You’ve Been in Lau for Too Long

By Matt Sullivan and Matt Sullivan December 11, 2013

Readers, let me give it to you straight: I am writing this article to you from Lau 2 at 5:30 a.m., ending an all-nighter preparing for my looming finals that started at 7 p.m. yesterday. I don't know...

We

We

By Emma Holland and Emma Holland October 14, 2013

Okay, so maybe we don't love the cubicles that much, but we certainly enjoy writing all over them. Lau cubicle graffiti ranges from funny, to weird, to shocking and back to incomprehensibly weird again....

Lau-chitecture: A Library Reimagined

Lau-chitecture: A Library Reimagined

By Lindsay Lee and Lindsay Lee October 10, 2013

The university has expressed long-term desires to renovate Lau, which many students consider to be the campus eyesore. We at 4E wanted to see what would hypothetically happen if one of these three famous...

Libraries Add Student Council

By Mallika Sen and Madison Ashley September 20, 2013

Rather than complaining about Lauinger Library’s architecture, students will now be able to give more constructive feedback through the Student Library Council, an initiative started by library staff...

Library Renovations Add Study Space on Second Floor

By Mallika Sen September 10, 2013

As classes begin in earnest and students return to Lauinger Library this semester, the look of the second floor may be a shock to some. The library’s overhaul eliminated half of its shelving, leaving...

When You Get Back...

When You Get Back…

By KP and KP May 12, 2013

The studying has been done. The finals have been taken. The papers have been written. All that's left to say is . . . Congratulations, Hoyas! You made it through this year! All that's left to do is sit...

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