Nolan DiFrancesco
Halloween Around The World
Senior > International Studies > Johns Hopkins University
It is Halloween time again, and Americans from all over go through the yearly rituals. The trick-or-treating, the candy, the increasingly ridiculous costumes. For college students, Halloween offers...
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The True Cost of College
Junior > Journalism > University of Maryland
They are called the “50K Club” - the universities in this country that currently charge a sticker price of over $50,000 to students in tuition and room and board fees. And the club currently...
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Youth Political Activism Goes Virtual
Senior > International Studies > Johns Hopkins University
It isn’t a hunger strike on campus. It isn’t a civil rights march on Washington. It isn’t a sit-in at the student union. No, the days of your parents’ generation and their romanticized...
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SGA: What You Can Do For Your School
Senior > International Studies > Johns Hopkins University
You get the emails and the Facebook events. You see the flyers around campus and hear their ads on college radio programs. They are the Student Government Association and they want to make your college...
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The Noob's Guide to Google+
Senior > International Studies > Johns Hopkins University
Judging by the social media world’s irate reaction every time Facebook makes even a small change, the chance that people could readily embrace something as game-changing as Google+ seems preposterous....
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College Grads Entering the Jobs Market: Good Luck
Senior > International Studies > Johns Hopkins University
On September 8, President Barack Obama went before a joint session of Congress to propose his highly anticipated jobs plan. Calling it the American Jobs Act, he laid out a number of ambitious proposals...
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Putting the Study Back in Study Abroad
Senior > International Studies > Johns Hopkins University
We all know the stereotypical study abroad experience: Step 1: Go to Europe Step 2: Pretend to be interested in art history Step 3: Party Step 4: Repeat steps two and three Ever...
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The Last Week
Junior > International Studies > Johns Hopkins University
Six months can be a long time. Six months is certainly long enough to make friends, live ebulliently, and call a place “home.” It is long enough to discover new things about yourself and...
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Glimpse In Time: Beirut
Junior > International Studiese > Johns Hopkins University
How does one define Beirut? It’s a city with a million contradictions, a million voices, a checkered past and cloudy future. It’s a polarized city, western-thinking Christian neighborhoods...
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Who Needs A Government?
Senior > International Studies > Johns Hopkins University
I remember the day almost perfectly. I was skiing with friends out Tahoe, California last January. We came in for a quick lunch, and one of my friends pulls out a computer to check the news. Next...
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Put Down the Guide Book
Junior > International Studies > Johns Hopkins University
Our adventure started early in the morning. Myself and two friends had rented a car and were making our way up to the northernmost part of Lebanon. But we were having trouble getting out of Beirut....
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A Jaunt to Yemen? Not This Month
Junior > International Studies > Johns Hopkins University
It was a bold plan… far too bold. I had been hoping on traveling to Yemen for a personal project. I wanted to research and write about the...
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The Summer of Sloth?
Junior > International Studies > Johns Hopkins University
I come from The Johns Hopkins University, hailing from the city of Baltimore - in its own words, “the Greatest City in America.” (I want to know...
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10 Things You Can't Do in the Real World
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