First Years Create Community in Isolating Times
As the creator of the @swat2024 Instagram page, Amanda Roessler ’24 aimed to connect incoming first year students with each
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freshmen
Life at Swarthmore is Defined by Uncertainties
How would you summarize your first-year experience at Swarthmore? Would you say it was too academically intense? Would you say
Read moreFreshmen: how this year did and/or didn’t live up to expectations
It’s only everything we’d been waiting for what felt like our entire lives — the big change, the first taste
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Daring to Date: Swooping, Hookups, and Other Swattie Things
Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As
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Coffee Talk with Ben Stern ’20
Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As
Read moreRide the tide changes name to Swatstruck 2017
The college’s annual admitted students event, formerly known as Ride the Tide, has changed its name to “Swatstruck”. The new
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First years begin to make friends and make out
From finding condoms in our orientation packets to finding new friends in our halls, orientation was a week not soon
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On the menu: fresh aesthetic for all
Hey, this is To Serve. Maybe you’re confused, because until this article, I wrote a column called Hi! Fashion (R.I.P.).
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Advice for freshmen, from Swatties who learned it the hard way
Your first year at college is a time for learning. And while you all, like me, have somehow weaseled your
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Against freshman-only housing
At the Phoenix, we believe it is imperative that first-year housing continue to be mixed by class year. Mixed housing
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