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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


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’Tis the season: Residential colleges host holiday events

December 4, 2024

With the festive season well underway, students often look to their dorms in search of a community to celebrate with. Several residential colleges host events in late November and early December to nurture...

The holiday season is meaningful because we’re willing to make our own magic, see excitement in what we wouldn’t have expected to and find happiness merely because we are looking for it.

Memon: Magic within the mundane – the finite moments of my holiday season

December 4, 2024

There’s something beautiful about a season characterized by the desire for happiness: the mundane rush to class feels surreal when fluffy white snow coats sidewalks; gazing wistfully through the wall...

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First snowfall of the season brings NU students excitement, adjustment period

November 22, 2024

The Chicago area experienced its first snowfall of the season Thursday morning, with a predicted 1-4 inches in accumulations. McCormick freshman Mayte Cruz, who is from Nicaragua, encountered snow for...

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Study spaces and de-stressing: How to survive finals week

November 21, 2024

Weinberg junior Izegbuwa Adun still remembers her first college finals season. Her daily routine quickly became studying in Main Library for 10 hours straight, she said.  Now, she said, she tries to...

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It’s formal season: Reading Period brings studying, packing amid social formals

November 29, 2023

Depending on students’ majors and how much they got done over Thanksgiving break, Reading Period is either a time for locking themselves in the library or for hitting the Christkindlmarket.  There...

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