Experience Magazine – A digital magazine that examines the power of experience to spark ideas, solve problems, transform industries, and drive personal growth.

What is Experience?

The world is changing — because of technology, because of the climate, because of innovations and new ideas about work, play, and human relationships. Experience is here to document those changes and explore how experience is the key to navigating this new world.
Our stories explore how experience drives people to discovery and insight; how industries and cultures are adapting and evolving; how we can assess our own experiences and use them to power learning and growth. 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

EDITOR, PARTNERSHIPS AND ENGAGEMENT
Ceci Menchetti @CeciMenchetti

Explore

Culture
Art, sports, and human relations
Exploration
Risks, leaps, and awkward situations
Future Of
Changes ahead, via human and machine
Tech + Life
The new rules of a digital world

I Tried It

I Tried It: Talk Therapy App

Can texting a smartphone shrink be therapeutic?

By Ceci Menchetti

Lovers of feral cats prowl the world’s streets

By Jim Sullivan

The Experience Questionnaire: Chuck Klosterman

The virtuous, mail-order, bot-shaken future of booze

By Glenn McDonald

This veteran found healing through driving a Porsche — fast

By Matt Crossman

Speedgate, the sport invented by artificial intelligence

By Glenn McDonald

Is overtourism ruining your favorite vacation spot?

By Jon Keller

Ideas

Jealous of your Facebook friends? You’re not alone.

A new Experience survey reveals how much online envy is hurting our psyches — and fraying our real-life relationships

The truth behind those glorious #VanLife images

Your guide to becoming an Instagram star

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

Career Day

Translating the genetic code

Part interpreter, part mathematician, a genetic counselor guides people through good news and bad.

By Jenni Gritters

Stories in Ideas

On the cutting edge of the marijuana industry

By Jenni Gritters

Behind the fur: A baseball mascot tells all

By Jessica Palombo Gustafson

Tech + Life

Is this the end of the eye chart?

When it comes to testing vision, sometimes the best method is still the most basic.

By Megan Johnson

First Person

How I realized I was ‘they’

Gender, pronouns, and the power of the right definition

By Jama Shelton

Dancing away from gender roles

By Cori Brosnahan

This is why I carry a gun

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.