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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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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.

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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Joanna Weiss @JoannaWeiss

DESIGN DIRECTOR
Michael Workman @MichaelWorkman

SENIOR EDITOR
Schuyler Velasco @Schuyler_V

EDITOR, PARTNERSHIPS AND ENGAGEMENT
Ceci Menchetti @CeciMenchetti

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Culture

A race where you push yourself — and a stroller

The sport of ‘stroller running’ can be casual fun. But it can also be serious competition.

By Jim Sullivan

The Experience Questionnaire: John Cameron Mitchell

How I ‘escaped’ Alcatraz

By Michael Workman

What color are my eyes? It depends.

By Margaret Eby

Career Day

Twenty-eight days under the sea

A ‘saturation diver’ on life offshore, a long ascent, and the joys of blowing things up

By Jenni Gritters

Dancing away from gender roles

By Cori Brosnahan

The day I brought my knitting to the boardroom

By Alexandra Samuel

The new life of a dying mall

‘Be nicer to your delivery people. They’re…people.’

The Experience Questionnaire: James Holzhauer

Stories in I Tried It

I Tried It: Food cooked by robots

By Heather Kapplow

I Tried It: Ghost hunting

By Alison Stevenson

I Tried It: Group piano class

By Evan Judd

I Tried It: Sensory deprivation tank

By Allen Strickland Williams

I Tried It: Self-defense class

By Erin Kennedy

I Tried It: Swimming with whale sharks

By Amy Sutherland

Future Of

The (very) dark side of virtual reality

It can be used for games, for empathy, for therapy. But it could also be used for torture.

By Heather Kapplow

Stories in Ideas

Cornhole (yes, cornhole) is going pro

By Glenn McDonald

This is what it’s like to ski the half pipe

Stories in Career Day

The Experience Questionnaire: John Cameron Mitchell

Twenty-eight days under the sea

By Jenni Gritters

He puts crime under the microscope

By Amy Sutherland

Backstage at ‘The Lion King,’ he handles beads, harnesses, and sweat

By Margaret Eby

All the beauty products he could ever want

By Alix Strauss

Finding the cheese that speaks to you

By Julia Beck

Tech + Life

The joyride is over

Driverless cars are coming. The transition will be easier than you think.

By Tracy Mayor

Your guide to becoming an Instagram star

By Jenni Gritters

The grownup who vapes

By Glenn McDonald

Exploration

She heard the call of the wolves

Mexican wolves are hated, feared, and imperiled. Jean Ossorio, 75, has seen more of them than almost anyone.

By Tracy Staedter

I Tried It: Swimming with whale sharks

By Amy Sutherland

A night on a hunt for the homeless

By Ezra Haber Glenn

‘Now write out your obituary’

By Kara Baskin

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.