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As Jesuit students, we are expected to adhere to high standards such as the Profile of the Graduate, while aspiring to higher ideals, like being Men for Others. Both on and off campus, the Jesuit student body is known for being a standup group of guys, willing to assist others at all times. Everywhere you turn on The 28, there are students helping each...
You stand in line, wait, glance at your phone as time trickles by.  When the wait is over, you glance at your sparse options: a taco plate or a cold sandwich.  Surely there has to be a more efficient and enjoyable way to eat at Jesuit. Luckily for the student body, the Jesuit cafeteria will be completely revamped for the...
  Unified Sports Softball is a collaboration between the Notre Dame School of Dallas and Jesuit Dallas to practice and play softball. The Unified Sports experience/season consists of five practices and one simulation game; these practices were every Saturday from 11 am to 12:30 pm. The season begins August 20th and goes through September 24th. Seven Jesuit baseball sophomores, Josh Gallegos,...
I never expected to be the lead teacher for 24 middle schoolers at 17 years old.  The Breakthrough Collaborative made this happen. This summer, I worked as a Teaching Fellow at Breakthrough Fort Worth.  In this article, I want to share with you one of the most impactful and rewarding experiences of my life. So what is this amazing program...
For the rising junior or senior, the college admissions process is the next step in life, and it is a very important process that can, if done correctly, help you get into a great variety of colleges. However, the college admissions process is very long and arduous, requiring many hours of essays, resumé building, and applications that ask anything from...
Jesuit comes off a 3-2 finish in the Coppell Tournament against El Paso Chaplain in a 63-40 win. And to finish their last two district games off, Keller is a team, full of shooters ready to shoot the ball at will and guys that handle pressure on the bounce. Before this game, they had a promising win over the...
Charlie Boroczak '22, like most high schoolers, deals with the challenge of balancing all the activities in his life. The senior works hard to maintain his school grades, participate in the Senior-Freshman Big Brothers Program, plays on the varsity football and rugby teams, and manages to get a little time to hang with friends. Oh, and run a non-profit for...
December assessments are never a hit for Jesuit students. And because of this, I wanted to get a deeper look – via a student opinion poll – at the dreaded December assessments. Methodology To conduct this poll in a method that avoided potential and probable skews, I decided to get 20 students from each of the four grade levels; and in...

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