Opinion
I love Notre Dame, even when it hasn’t loved me
“We are a University that prides itself on being a tight-knit community, yet we routinely fail to provide the basic infrastructure required for disabled community members to thrive.”
Thank you, grief
“What would the highs look like without lows?"
Grow the good in business: A call to action
"There exists a deeper truth that business, when rightly understood and properly practiced, is oriented toward something greater than itself, a vision Mendoza aims to instill in its students."
Introducing the Notre Dame Political Union: Promoting civil discourse on campus
“While Notre Dame has a few political organizations, we felt that there was no safe space for students to come and have civil, structured conversations with members of our campus community.”
Paul Blaschko and the irony of our academic mission
“When a university systematically sidelines the professor most visibly living out its stated mission, what does that tell us about which mission it is actually pursuing?”
When your visa declares your major: An international student’s perspective
“American students double-major in things that interest them. International students double-major in things that protects them.”
How Catholics can participate in politics
Catholics cannot remain apolitical.
Should AI decide your future career?
“Choosing a career based solely on trying to avoid AI is not only unrealistic, but also limiting.”
Notre Dame v. academic freedom
Notre Dame serves the global academic community best when it does not mimic the illusory neutrality of its peers, but offers a consistent alternative.
AI doesn’t lower my cortisol
Exposing the myth of AI shortcuts.
Where do we belong?
Can immigrants every truly achieve the American dream?
Viral ambition
“Despite the severity, careerism is not terminal.”
Here’s to everything still left to learn
"What made my time at Notre Dame irreplaceable wasn't any single achievement; it was the moments I chose presence over productivity."
Graduate student government election: A new guard takes over
The new administration promises to tackle tech equity, subsidize parking and improve networking opportunities for graduate students.
The case against Ohio
Not to be controversial, but it’s just not part of the Midwest.
Deathbed soliloquies
Final confession: the question “How do you feel about graduating?” has, since it was first uttered before me, forever been analogous to the question “How do you feel about dying?”
Why I’m grateful to die
A dying man teaches us how to die better.
Creativity will grasp our generation
Perhaps the more we embrace technology, even with cliche AI-slop, the more we think, feel and create.
Trump wants to give the Church orders
When politics becomes sacred, our moral vision becomes distorted.
























