Articles tagged: Student Life

Podcasts

Post Pitch: Behind the scenes of the Mr. Georgetown pageant

Welcome back to Post Pitch! This week, the Voice’s podcast producer Romy Abu-Fadel interviews our writers, Aaron Pollock and Phoebe Nash, about their feature on the Mr. Georgetown candidates. Tune... Read more

By , and October 1, 2024

Editorials

Georgetown should rethink how the Capitol Campus will impact students and D.C.

Georgetown’s new Capitol Campus—a component of its $3 billion Called to Be fundraising campaign—aims to increase the university’s downtown presence and expand opportunities for students to engage with D.C. While... Read more

By the September 29, 2024

News

Rep. Raskin talks democracy, 2024 election in Georgetown Free Speech Project discussion

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) spoke about civil liberties, the current political climate, and the upcoming U.S. presidential election in an event hosted by the Georgetown Free Speech Project on Sept.... Read more

By September 19, 2024

News

Code of Conduct changes, explained

For over a year, Georgetown has been revising its rules governing student conduct.  Starting this academic year, the university is implementing the revised version of the Code of Student Conduct—the... Read more

By and September 14, 2024

Features

‘Georgetown admissions, I think you’re pretentious’: Rural students reflect on application process

Georgetown’s slow, confusing application platform has become a joke for admitted students—something to gripe about and bond over once they get to campus. But to Keatyn Wede (CAS ’27), it... Read more

By April 28, 2024

Features

Georgetown’s Muslim Life creates home on campus, 25 years in the making

When Janeeta Shaukat (SOH ’24) came to Georgetown, she began to wonder if God existed. Although she was born in a Muslim family, she had yet to deeply explore her... Read more

By April 28, 2024

Leisure

The artistic side of Georgetown’s Asian American community flourishes with Autumn Leaves

It is 9 p.m. on a Wednesday in the middle of March and creative director Lucy Zhang (COL ’26) is untangling the significance of a project that demanded much of... Read more

By April 10, 2024

Features

“A Boys’ Club”: Female leaders navigate Georgetown’s predominately male-led student organizations

When Megan Skinner (SFS ’24) first learned about GUSA in 2020, women filled a majority of the Senate seats.  This year, Skinner is one of only eight women in the... Read more

By February 16, 2024

Voices

Let’s hibernate our way out of stress culture

As finals rise to our horizons, days get shorter, and the weather gets colder, there’s something magical and all too appealing about crawling into a cozy cave and sleeping until spring. As it turns out, it’s a part of our body's natural rhythm to slow down during winter months. Yet, stress culture and the structure of our school system causes these months to be the busiest times for us, with our newfound exhaustion making it even harder to achieve our goals. We need to implement structural and societal changes to live more attuned to our natural rhythm.

By December 13, 2023

News

HFSC reopening heralds return of student life

Georgetown’s reopening of the HFSC Great Room serves as a step towards restoring a lively student presence in the space. 

By March 26, 2022

News

Humans of Georgetown is back to tell its stories

Previously a dormant Facebook page with minimal activity, Humans of Georgetown is back, and as far as the team is concerned, it is here to stay.

By November 3, 2020

News

Students remain on an empty, foreign campus

Georgetown students returned to campus after spring break to people moving out en masse after university communications indicated the semester would conclude remotely. After a rushed, often tearful, goodbye, they... Read more

By May 7, 2020