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The first-year experience: Uniquely yours

Mckenna Graham February 28, 2024
Getting comfortable with being uncomfortable
Morgan Dempsey ’25 outside McShain Hall, her residence hall on Sept. 20. PHOTO: MITCHELL SHIELDS ’22/THE HAWK

First & second year students share experiences about starting college amid pandemic

Devin Yingling September 21, 2021

As Kevin Hoban ’24 was getting ready for move-in weekend in August 2020, he made the last-minute decision to spend the entirety of his first year of college fully online at his family home in Connecticut.  Because...

Cristina Flores ’24 sits in front of her on-campus residence, Villiger Hall.   
PHOTO: MITCHELL SHIELDS ’22/THE HAWK

Students make the most of their first year amid pandemic

Nick Detulleo March 30, 2021

When George Worthington ’24 thought about what his first year of college would be like, he knew, because of the coronavirus pandemic, that it would be challenging. Worthington had made some connections...

Komada believes the student connections are what make the SOAR program so valuable.  PHOTO: MITCHELL SHIELDS ’22/ THE HAWK

SOAR program aims to help students adjust to campus life

Sophia Richetti March 16, 2021

The first year of college can be a rough adjustment. Add in a pandemic, and students are more stressed than ever. The SOAR program is one way St. Joe’s students can find a connection. SOAR, which stands...

ILLUSTRATION: CASEY WOOD ’23/THE HAWK

Mapping Hawk Hill

The Hawk Staff November 17, 2020

We asked first-year students at St. Joe’s, who have never attended a pre-pandemic campus, and only know it as a place of masks and brown paper dinner bags and tents and often empty common spaces, to...

ILLUSTRATION: CASEY WOOD ’23/THE HAWK

Mapping Hawk Hill

The Hawk Staff November 10, 2020

We asked first-year students at St. Joe’s, who have never attended a pre-pandemic campus, and only know it as a place of masks and brown paper dinner bags and tents and often empty common spaces, to...

ILLUSTRATION: CASEY WOOD ’23/THE HAWK

Mapping Hawk Hill

The Hawk Staff October 27, 2020

We asked first-year students at St. Joe’s, who have never attended a pre-pandemic campus, and only know it as a place of masks and brown paper dinner bags and tents and often empty common spaces, to...

ILLUSTRATION: CASEY WOOD ’23/THE HAWK

Mapping Hawk Hill

The Hawk Staff October 20, 2020

We asked first-year students at St. Joe’s, who have never attended a pre-pandemic campus, and only know it as a place of masks and brown paper dinner bags and tents and often empty common spaces, to...

ILLUSTRATION: CASEY WOOD ’23/THE HAWK

Mapping Hawk Hill

The Hawk Staff October 13, 2020

We asked first-year students at St. Joe’s, who have never attended a pre-pandemic campus, and only know it as a place of masks and brown paper dinner bags and tents and often empty common spaces, to...

Mattie Yoncha ’20 and Ryenn Hayes ’22 perform in “The Burial of Thebes” PHOTOS: KERRY McINTYRE

Fresh faces take the stage

Natalie Drum April 16, 2019

First year students make up half of "The Burial at Thebes" cast The SJU Theatre Company finished their performance of “The Burial at Thebes,” a version of Sophocles’ “Antigone” written by Seamus...

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