Georgetown University: ESCAPE In the News

Georgetown's Great Escape

The Georgetown Magazine:

It certainly sounds like they know each other. The Georgetown students on the bus were asked at the beginning of this ESCAPE retreat to sit next to someone they don't know. Yet the conversation is almost deafening as the vehicle heads toward a rural spot in northern Maryland....

Escape: It's not Campy

The Voice:

Whether you’re a freshman or not, having someone ask you if you are one is typically not well-received. So why do eager-looking students clad in black fleece vests keep asking you that very question outside Leo’s or in Red Square? ...

Making the Hilltop Home

The Hoya:

Transferring anywhere is difficult — be it for a job, a school or a family. One has to say his farewells to old friends, co-workers, family, professors and residency. One has to meet new friends, create a new living space and make sense of it all...

I hate 'Kumbaya'

The Voice:

I got a letter in the mail the other day. Usually, seeing my name on an envelope is like my birthday and Halloween all in one, but reading this particular letter was punishing, mean, even degrading. I, after all, was the one who had written it...

Need an ESCAPE?

The Independent:

Ask anyone who knows me and I'll bet you a golden Sacagawea dollar that they'll say that I've never been quite like everyone else. Call me quirky, call me weird, call me an oddball or one brick short of the wall, but please don't call me the same...

Lessons in Soul-Searching

The Washington Post

They thought they were signing up for a slumber party by the Chesapeake, a chance to make new friends and get away from their studies for a weekend. What the 81 Georgetown University freshmen got was 27 hours to stop - after racing for years on the track toward one of the nation's most prestigious colleges - and think about why they are at the school...