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 WRITER
Schuyler Velasco @Schuyler_V

Ideas

King of the ice

Forrest McCarthy built a career helping scientists in Antarctica. As the climate changed, so did he.

By Eric Niiler

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.

Career Day: The Lighting Designer

By Jenni Gritters

‘A mirror made out of sound’

By Thea Breite, Nicholas Pfosi, and Sofia Adams

Ideas

Doing disaster right

How do you recover from a hurricane? Ask survivors of Katrina.

By Stephanie Grace

Photos by Susan Poag

Ideas

The mother of all election challenges

If you think running for office is hard, try doing it with a baby.

By Delia Cabe

Stories in Ideas

When clowns were cool

By Natalie Pompilio

Playing both sides

By Glenn McDonald

How to make a difference after a school shooting

By Julia Beck

Your guide to becoming an Instagram star

By Jenni Gritters

Career Day: The Cricket Farmer

By Schuyler Velasco

First Person

The Pop-Tart whisperer

A war correspondent picks up a surprising skill (and a taste of home) in Afghanistan

By David Filipov

Stories in First Person

The Experience Questionnaire: Neil Gaiman

I was dying up there

By Allen Strickland Williams