Molarity Classic: 196-200
By Michael Molinelli '82
Did a benevolent God finally send poor Jim a beautiful woman?
Columns
Address for success
By Liam Farrell '04
There might not be a more universally feared and derided form of communication than the commencement address. Every spring, individuals of various altitudes of notoriety and self-awareness have to stand in the heat talking to the legions of the sunburned and the hungover, charged with inspiring them in (preferably) 30 minutes or less.
Supporting Our Graduates
By Matt Storin '64
It’s Commencement time at Notre Dame, several days of celebration, satisfaction and pride for graduates and their families. But how is it experienced by the faculty and staff, many of whom have seen a good number of these events come and go, year after year?
Your Next Community
By Dan Masterton '11
The temptation we have at Notre Dame, or in any community which nourishes us in faith, is to cling to it. We want to stay and have more and more of the good things. The sustenance is so great; why leave it behind?
Graduation Day
By Madeline Stone '13
It was six months away. Then two weeks away. And now, just days away. Each passing moment brings us closer to the day that perhaps all Notre Dame seniors simultaneously yearn for and dread: graduation day.
Post-grad Depression
By Emily Whalen '11
To those soon-to-be graduates, the class of 2013: because Notre Dame is the amazing place it is, when you leave, you may find a dark cloud overhead. It is a real, almost tangible loss, so of course it’s going to leave an ache. Probably more than you expected.
The Playroom: Mother's Day
By Maraya Steadman '89, '90MBA
Mother’s Day is supposed to be about me, so I’m not supposed to do anything. My family tries to do the stuff I would normally do: make dinner, clean the house, pick up the dog poop in the backyard.
Global Doc: Treating Breast Cancer
By Dr. Vincent DeGennaro Jr. '02
“How long have you had the mass in your breast?” I ask Natalie, a 43-year-old woman, in Creole. “Some time,” she replies, an indicator of the Haitian measurement of time. I prod and she eventually reveals that she has had the tumor for about a year. The first question to come to mind is simple and inevitable, but is so often tinged with judgment: Why did she wait so long?
Molarity Redux: Academic Uniforms
Welcome to Molarity Redux, the 44th strip in the updated, continuing adventures of Jim Mole and friends. Learning from the success of the football team after new uniforms, the University has released new faculty uniforms.
The Playroom: A super-sized vacation
By Maraya Steadman '89, '90MBA
My kids think a great vacation is staying anywhere that has a pool, a vending machine and a television. But we decided to super-size that idea and instead of just taking them to the Holiday Inn Express on the back side of Phoenix, we went to an all-inclusive family resort in Mexico.