Ferdinand Magellan, Neil Armstrong, Frodo Baggins – all of these bold adventurers of old pale in comparison to Jake, your next-door neighbor. He sashays barefoot through the diverse ecosystem that is your floor’s communal bathroom, with no regard for his own safety or health. Such brazen defiance is not without consequences, as the entirety of […]

Every morning before his 9 A.M. Spanish class, Alistair Thomas III tells his roommate that he’s going on a run. Then, he walks to Burleith to take a picture of Duke Ellington from afar, purposefully cropping out the giant letters that say DUKE ELLINGTON SCHOOL OF THE ARTS. Why, you may ask? Well, after his […]

Being gay is awesome and being gay at Georgetown is awesome too. Gay people like a lot of things and that’s pretty cool. Some gay people like other people and two great places to find them are Red Square outside the ICC or in the Lauinger Library. There are male people there and female people […]

GEORGETOWN – While stumbling home to Harbin on a partly cloudy night after her first Vil A rooftop party, Amelia Mumford (MSB ’25) happened upon a gorgeous sight.  “I’ve literally… never seen the moon so big,” Mumford heroically slurred, enunciating fairly well even though she was way drunker than she’d promised her roommate she would […]

“Actually,” interrupts Jack Williams (SFS ’25), “sex trafficking is a densely complex issue with a number of multifaceted factors that must be admitted into our consideration.” The class gasps. No one has ever said something so intelligent.  “Tell me more,” coos Professor Hopsdick, clearly won over by Williams’s flowery language. “Well the thing is, when […]

LEAVEY – Freshman Dan Saint-Pierre (COL ‘25) hadn’t dared to look up as he read his article aloud. He knew that this was his only chance to achieve his dream of becoming a student journalist at The Georgetown Voice, the paper he had read over his morning porridge every day as a child. And yet, […]

BURLEITH – Woe is me! Each day a new suffering spews forth from an evergreen font of toil, burdening my weary shoulders. Ouch! Ouch, I say! I am burdened with pains unworldly upon my battle-maimed back. A shocking series of tortures has left my mind in disarray; my inner sanctum invaded by the soldiers of […]

GEORGETOWN – The glass office windows of the third floor of the Edward B. Bunn Intercultural Center (ICC) boast portraits of high-profile speakers, ranging from presidents to authors, diplomats to actors, and everything in between, even including some that aren’t currently being investigated by the Hague.  Mark Thomas (SFS ‘22), a student of International Politics, […]

When Caroline Maudsley (SFS ‘23) decided to jet off to France for a semester abroad, she knew that her relationship with Sawyer Flanagan (COL ‘24) would certainly need some “spice” in order to last.  “Well, it started off as you would expect” noted Maudsley. “When you’re, you know, 4000 miles away from one another, you […]