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That’s our motto, our credo, our exhortation. Experience is a digital magazine that examines the power of experience to spark ideas, solve problems, transform industries, and drive personal growth. Our stories will invite readers to understand the experiences of others, challenge assumptions, and break through the bubbles that too often persist in culture and civic life. They’ll promote a spirit of doing, growing, taking leaps, embracing the new. Experience is published by Northeastern University.

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About Northeastern

For more than a century, Northeastern University has placed experience at the heart of its mission, in teaching, research, and global engagement. That’s because experience is the push that gives learning and discovery connection, insight, and impact. Experience is how people learn over their lifetimes, staying nimble and relevant. Experience is education. Learn more about Northeastern.

Staff

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Joanna Weiss@JoannaWeiss

DESIGN DIRECTOR
Michael Workman@MichaelWorkman

SENIOR EDITOR
Schuyler Velasco@Schuyler_V

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First Person

My life as a polyamorist

Google Calendars, anchor dates, and other rules and rituals of ethical non-monogamy

Career Day: The Greeting Card Writer

By Schuyler Velasco

Teaching English in the shadow of the border wall

By Kellye Hooks

On tour with the world’s only punk banjo star

By Glenn McDonald

First Person

What you do after your house burns down

Navigating scrap metal thieves, shady restoration companies, and the kindness of strangers

By Jessica Palombo Gustafson

I Tried It: Ax throwing

By Megan Johnson

The Experience Questionnaire: Dana Gordon
Ideas

The race to save a forbidden language in Alaska

Memory, stigma, and the nearly-lost history of Ninilchik Russian

By Ella Jacobson

Ideas

What would you do? Take an immigrant’s journey.

Here are eight immigrant stories, told through composite characters but based on real laws and historically documented scenarios. Follow their paths, and see how you would respond to the choices they faced.

Stories in Ideas

Career Day: The Opera Singer

By Julia Beck

She heard the call of the wolves

By Tracy Staedter

I passed out in a Cold War fallout shelter

By Glenn McDonald

When your real-life friend is your Facebook troll

By Jim Sullivan

My search for the best fried chicken in New York

By Schuyler Velasco

Ideas

The truth behind those glorious #VanLife images

The wanderlust was real. So was the lack of a bathroom.

By Jenni Gritters

Stories in First Person

The Experience Questionnaire: Deepak Chopra

I Tried It: Silent retreat

By Glenn McDonald