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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 other. She…

September 17, 2020
Opinion

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 it was…

May 2, 2019
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Campus Journal

Freshmen: 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 of true…

April 27, 2017
Arts & Features

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 of Fall…

September 9, 2016
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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 of Fall…

September 2, 2016
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Around Campus/News

Ride 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 name accompanies…

March 17, 2016
Campus Journal

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 forgotten. Orientation…

September 17, 2015
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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.). Fashion is…

September 3, 2015
Campus Journal

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 way into…

September 3, 2015
Opinion/Staff Editorials

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 is an…

March 26, 2015
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