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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

EDITOR, PARTNERSHIPS AND ENGAGEMENT
Ceci Menchetti

Vicarious experiences

Stories in First Person

The grownup who vapes

By Glenn McDonald

The Experience Questionnaire: Arlo Guthrie

The most dangerous part of scuba diving

By Christina Wood

I Tried It: ‘Tinder for friendship’

By Margaret Eby

This is why I carry a gun

The Experience Questionnaire: Karen Kilgariff

Stories in First Person

‘Creative trespassing’ sets me free

By Ethan Gilsdorf

The ghost in my Netflix account

By Jen Deaderick

The Experience Questionnaire: Min Jin Lee

My life as a polyamorist

Teaching English in the shadow of the border wall

By Kellye Hooks

What you do after your house burns down

By Jessica Palombo Gustafson

Stories in First Person

The Experience Questionnaire: Dana Gordon

I Tried It: Ax throwing

By Megan Johnson

I passed out in a Cold War fallout shelter

By Glenn McDonald

When your real-life friend is your Facebook troll

By Jim Sullivan

The Experience Questionnaire: Andre Dubus III

I thought I was Mary Poppins. Then I got in front of a classroom.

By Anna Sims

Stories in First Person

The Experience Questionnaire: Deepak Chopra

I Tried It: Silent retreat

By Glenn McDonald

My search for the best fried chicken in New York

By Schuyler Velasco

The Experience Questionnaire: Lisa Genova

I don’t want to stop singing ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside.’

By Debbie Gravitte

The Experience Questionnaire: Amanda Palmer

Stories in First Person

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

The Experience Questionnaire: DeAnne Smith

At hospice, we wrote the final chapter of our friendship

By Jim Sullivan

I Tried It: Climbing Kilimanjaro

By Duduetsang Chappelle-Molloy

The Experience Questionnaire: Richard Thompson

‘Now write out your obituary’

By Kara Baskin

Stories in First Person

I Tried It: Aura photo

By Schuyler Velasco

How I realized I was ‘they’

By Jama Shelton

The Experience Questionnaire: Justine Bateman

Pulling the trigger

By Tracy Hahn-Burkett

How to make a difference after a school shooting

By Julia Beck

The Experience Questionnaire: Heidi Zak