Opinion

A reminder to all the seniors

“Every Notre Dame student must experience a canon event their first weekend on campus — Welcome Weekend. While every student’s experience is different, I will try to best encapsulate the exhaustion and stress that Welcome Weekend brings.”

A view for the ages

“All of us, accomplished and ambitious, share only a fleeting moment together to witness the beauty of Notre Dame and what it can impart to us.”

The Observer: observed

“So, for those stressed-out scriveners who will carry this paper in perpetuity, listen up, pups. I have one imperative: stay hungry.”

On to new horizons

“Here’s to many more sunsets on the horizon — and to the people I will share them with.”

I care more to be loved

“If it has to come to an end, this is the end I would choose over and over again.”

For just a moment

“Two things I have never been good at — change and goodbyes — are both creeping in on me with a sense of impending doom.”

On quitting

“Thank you for believing in me. This diploma is just as much yours as it is mine.”

Be Notre Dame: in defense of Bengal and Baraka Bouts

“I have never seen more clearly how beneficial and essential the tradition of boxing continues to be for Notre Dame and for the world.”

There’s no such thing as justice

"I am writing this on the two-year anniversary of my assault. Everyone around me gets to move on, but I never do."

Bengal Bouts: a legacy worth questioning

‘We gon’ keep playing eye tag or you gonna holla at your boy’

“The tri-campus student newspaper will just have to deliver my heart to safety.”

The last letter to eternity

“I knew that this was it, that this was my final destination, that I would be here forever, in this wood, by this shrine, kneeling at the crucified Messiah’s feet.”

Notre Dame should continue to respond constructively, not combatively, to Trump

Notre Dame's approach to possible federal funding cuts has been praiseworthy, but the University should continue to be pragmatic and prepare for the worst.

South Bend’s cave walls

“South Bend’s own cave walls will be painted with the legend of the hardworking, underprivileged workers who made our city what it is today.”

Milton Babbitt was right (about musicals)

“Musical theatre is our cultural patrimony.”

Uprooted, again

“My heart felt ripped out of my chest, demanded to leave it behind. I feel the same now with our Observer headquarters.”

Spring allergies and resurrected life

“And so while I walk in the spring air sneezing, I stop to smell the flowers and thank God for all this new life.”

Pope Francis is the reason I’m Catholic

“Upon receiving the news of Pope Francis’s passing on Monday morning, however, tears, accompanied by deep fears of the future of the Roman Catholic Church, overwhelmed me.”

Silence.

“When was the last time you sat outside on a bench, in silence, for five minutes?”

Everything I know about love at the University of Notre Dame

They are the loves who will carry me into this next phase of life. It didn’t have to be a Notre Dame boy at all. It didn’t have to. It doesn’t have to.