“[It] was like crazy for me to fathom that this could happen to somebody at a moment’s notice,” Giovanniello said of his grandmother’s sudden stroke which prompted his interest in helping people through technology.
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Wanted: A New Marketplace for College Students
The new app will help BC students affordably furnish their off-campus apartments.
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Mandato Looks Back on Biopsies, Beanies, and Life Changes
Mandato describes the way the disease changed her life, but didn’t change her, saying, “What I noticed was that people were really uncomfortable around me because they didn’t necessarily know what to say,” she said. “But I wanted to tell them no one’s changed, like I still like the same jokes, the same things.”
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Investing in Music: CSOM Singer Croons the Classics
“I got to be Sinatra for a night … I wasn’t a college kid who was doing some singing, I wasn’t a member of a group who was singing. For once in my life, I was the star, and it was surreal,” Mastellone said.
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Two Students Promote Libraries and Literacy, Near and Far
Daniel Moverman, MCAS ’18, and Tara Hebert, MCAS ’18 tackled the world’s persisting problem of illiteracy.
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Finding Truth: Sajdi’s Journey From Avoiding to Preserving History
“It was then that I decided I must do history because I wanted to discover the truth.”
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El Camino Largo
“I was walking through the desert like a zombie,” Edgar Lopez, MCAS ’21, said of his long trek to give himself a chance at life, away from the corruption of politics and flesh in indigenous Guatemala.
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Cocaine, Meth, Marijuana, Heroin: Words from the Drug Czar
“…we’re flooded with these substances and the backdrop of this is the message that a lot of people use drugs when they’re young, the idea that it’s okay to experiment is embedded in our society. And so we have to face the fact the culture we live in encourages it.”
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Learning Their Language: Building Trust Through Music
“What ended up being most effective was to take my guitar and learn how to play any song they knew—a lot of ‘Despacito,’ a lot of Daddy Yankee.”
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Inspired by Survivors, Bellantonio Competes for Kids’ Camp
“You kind of have to remind yourself that it’s only temporary.”
