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

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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.

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

Ideas

Father of invention

In wartorn Iraq, Wisam Breegi saved his son. Now, he's developing an incubator to help babies around the world.

By Erin Graham

Photos by Matthew Modoono

First Person

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

Olympic skier Annalisa Drew walks us through her routine, flips and all.

The Experience Questionnaire: DeAnne Smith

At hospice, we wrote the final chapter of our friendship

By Jim Sullivan

Ideas

A park built for protest

Cleveland's Public Square was designed with free speech in mind. So far, it's working.

By Erick Trickey

Ideas

Take me to your fairy village

Life at a ‘forest school,’ where nobody goes inside. Ever.

By Jenni Gritters

Stories in Ideas

Becoming bionic

By Eric Niiler

Career Day: The Travel Agent

By Schuyler Velasco

I tried it: Climbing Kilimanjaro

By Duduetsang Chappelle-Molloy

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

Everybody loses it

By Alix Strauss

First Person

‘Now write out your obituary’

Hypochondria can be debilitating. So I tried an extreme cure.

By Kara Baskin

Stories in First Person

The Experience Questionnaire: Richard Thompson

How I realized I was ‘they’

By Jama Shelton