Tag: graduation
Lessons Learned: How to find yourself in the spaces left behind
When you first arrive at college, there’s a sense that it’s someone else’s college. It’s uncomfortable, being let into someone else’s space, the lives...
Lessons Learned: A love letter to lacrosse
Sophomore year, Feb. 24, 2023, 3:37 a.m., I laid in my bed in Berkus Hall and wrote in my journal: "I love lacrosse…I still feel...
Lessons Learned: What it means to be en route to the...
I’ve always loved watching film credits, especially in the movie theater. I am unbothered by their plainness and length, composed of ambiguous titles and...
Lessons Learned: How to leave the rest
You never really think about it at the beginning of your first year of college, but four years is not a lot of time....
‘A one-woman collector of stories’: Isabel Wilkerson to speak at commencement...
The Class of 2023 will hear words of direction and insight by long-time journalist, former Chicago Bureau Chief of the New York Times and...
Anxiety, excitement, seniors, are you ready to graduate?
As graduation approaches, many seniors find themselves reflecting on their plans for the future, the lessons that can be learned from the past and the...
Lessons Learned: How to find peace in the unknown
College has unsurprisingly been the best experience of my life — but not in the clichéd partying-five-nights-a-week and regret-filled reckless whirlwind many get to experience....
Lessons Learned: How to learn from yourself
I often look back on my 18-year-old self as being a child. She was one in a lot of ways — naive, nervous, open-minded and idealistic. But...
Letter from an almost graduate
In the wise words of Miley Cyrus, four years ago "I hopped off the plane at LAX with a dream and my cardigan” ready...
Senior commencement postponed, ensuring the class of 2020 is celebrated
President Jonathan Veitch announced April 3 that the class of 2020 senior commencement — originally scheduled for May 17 at the Remsen Bird Hillside Theater on campus —...