Archive: ESCAPE
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What Really Matters? An ESCAPEe Reflection
There is a lot of small talk during your first year of college. The top three most-heard phrases are probably “Where are you from?,” “What are you studying?,” and “What…
May 20, 2015
- Reflections
Taking Space for Meaning
A classic example of my previous decision-making process is how I picked where I’d go to college – flipped a coin in the air and went with the school I was hoping it landed…
May 15, 2015
- Reflections
ESCAPE: One Heck of a Day
Where do I even begin to describe the impact ESCAPE had on me? For those who know me, I am rarely at a loss for words – in this case, I find it hard to verbalize the power…
March 18, 2015
- News
President DeGioia ESCAPEs the Hilltop: an ESCAPEe Reflection
Not many students get the opportunity to spend a Sunday morning looking over the Shenandoah Valley while listening to the president of Georgetown University talk about his–…
February 24, 2015
- Programs
The Sound of ESCAPE
On ESCAPE, there’s nothing like singing at the top of your lungs to Earth, Wind, & Fire and the Backstreet Boys; to The Beatles and Britney Spears; to John Denver and…
February 5, 2015
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- Reflections
ESCAPE+CCC: One Year Later
With the passing of the one year anniversary of the dedication of ESCAPE’s new home, the Calcagnini Contemplative Center, just a few weeks ago, it’s incredible to…
November 3, 2014
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- Reflections
Two Hilltops
This has been a seminal year for ESCAPE , a campus retreat program dedicated to first-year students and one of the largest and longest-running retreat programs on campus. It is…
March 27, 2014
- Reflections
Gratitude: Not Just for Breaks
“Hey, how’s it going?” “Just making it through…” As we get back to work from the temporary respite of Thanksgiving Recess and wait in anticipation for Winter Break, I…
December 3, 2013
- Programs
New Georgetown Students Participate in ESCAPE
Hosted at the new Calcagnini Contemplative Center in the Blue Ridge mountains, the overnight nondenominational ESCAPE retreat gives first-year and transfer students the chance to…
November 5, 2013