The Hoya Experience

This blog is dedicated to chronicling my journey from Huntsville, AL to Washington, DC to attend Georgetown University. During my college search it was hard to find some stuff about Georgetown (let’s face it they aren’t the best with information-lol). So I want to help other deciding to attend to see what it’s like. I’m in SFS class of 2016! Feel free to ask me anything.

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… but of course that ride turned into an unforgettable 24th celebration. Just learned can’t take them anywhere 😂😂😂😊

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I asked a couple “ok” people to come take a ride with me @culdesacdc #beforethestorm (at Fort Totten (Washington, D.C.))

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Riggs library, Georgetown

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Highlight of senior year... being invited to a dinner here 

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Jackie on the Georgetown campus, May 1954. Check out the monogram on her belt!

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It doesn’t stop post college life... I weirdly thought it would

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Georgetown’s Academic Environment

Everyone has a Sunday tradition. For my Catholic friends, Sunday means 7:30 pm mass in Dahlgren chapel. For my floor-mates, Sunday is synonymous with crowding around the T.V. to watch the Patriots’ game. But for me, Sunday also includes a far less religious or athletic tradition: it’s the day I meet with my Economics study group.

Since the beginning of sophomore year, my three-person study group has made a habit of congregating with our Econ textbooks every Sunday afternoon to discuss problems sets, review material, and prepare for class.

To the outside observer, I’m sure our weekly “get-togethers” seem dorky if not outright dull. But, personally, these Sunday afternoons are a highlight of my week.  

Rather than cooping up in a library, we study at local coffee shops, cafés, and markets. One afternoon in particular, we claimed a table on Dean and DeLuca’s patio and nibbled on sandwiches and sweets while sliding supply curves. Together, we’ve debated prices and consumer preferences while baking pumpkin pie, defined Marshallian demand over macaroni and cheese, and celebrated the completion of our midterm with 16 ounces of Ben & Jerry’s chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream.  

Our study group enjoys not just culinary activities. We also attend our professor’s office hours together and have listened to lectures at Georgetown by famous economists, like former Secretary of the Treasury, Larry Summers.  

When I first arrived at Georgetown, I was worried that I might not be able to academically “compete.” My study group has shown me that those fears were completely unfounded. Georgetown is cooperative—not cutthroat. Here, your peers and professors aren’t your rivals; they’re more like teammates – the type of people with which you can laugh at nerdy jokes, socialize, and study subsidies, sunk costs, and savings on Sundays.

Hoya Saxa!

Nick (COL ’19)

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I don’t even care that I already reblogged this because seriously, how is this not a masterpiece painting hanging in the Smithsonian? Everything about this photo just says Romanticism to me

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These two exist in our actual world, why are epic sagas not being written about them. I would read them ALL.

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The Daily Show, August 18, 2016

Jordan Klepper gets to know Trump supporters

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It’s like shooting fish in a barrel

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Remember to vote in November! Or these people will literally try to take away our rights and set us back 100 years.

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These people do my work for me when anti sjw nonsense posters ask for ‘proof’ that there are these people walking among us

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“islam” “no’ ? ???? Do they hear when they talk??

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GloZell shows why cultural representation is so important (x)

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The CULP within me analyzed this on so many levels!!! 

Good luck to everyone in 2020 starting their Hoya Journey!! 

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I’m employed!!!! Check out my company bio and feel free to look into what Oxeon does! Loving the job (2 months in). The culture, people, and learning experiences are INCREDIBLE!! 

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Georgetown University is renaming two of its buildings that honored slaveholders

This was after students protested on the matter. 

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Horrible blogger

Y’all... I’m so bad at updating this... I graduated in May (LOL) and started a job. SOOOOO I will try and get this updated this weekend to reflect that! 

I still plan to use this as a platform for career development etc... think of it as the HoyaSaxaExperience (that never ends!!!) because I truly believe all that happens next (whatever it may be), started on the Hilltop! 

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Patricia Bayonne-Johnson, Descendant of Enslaved Persons Sold to Cover Debts by Georgetown University Leaders in 1838, Meets with its President to Discuss Amends

article via nytimes.com More than a century after Georgetown University used some of the profits from the sale of 272 enslaved African-Americans to help ensure its survival, John J. DeGioia, the un…

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THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES PART 2: “As you start your journey, the first thing you should do is throw away that store-bought map and begin to draw your own.”-Michael Dell

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THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES Part 1: No one can ever say that I didn’t enjoy all that Georgetown has to offer... that I didn’t take advantage of meeting the AMAZING people, being a part of continuing the legacy of excellence, and doing what I wanted to do in my 4 years here. TRULY TRULY TRULY... THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES #2k16

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It’s coming! It’s coming!!! Less than 10 days until the big day!!!