Author Molly Lamendola

 It was late in February of 2020 when Vincent Gadioma ‘22 and Tobenna Ugwu ‘22 had just been elected as the president and vice president of the Fairfield University Student Association. They had plans for...

“I’m going to drink coffee while we talk,” Jonathan Petropoulos, Ph.D. said, with his silvery blond hair flopping over a bit. His eyes wrinkled with joy behind the kind of tortoise shell glasses you’d...

There’s a pitstop in every Fairfield University admissions tour. You might have noticed it on yours, or you could’ve been too nervous, focusing instead on how your preppy tour guide in khaki shorts has...

There’s always those awkward first days of freshman year where nobody seems to know that there’s such a thing as towns outside of their small section of New Jersey, that people in Massachusetts call their...

Though it feels like it’s uttered around this time every October, this presidential election year feels special. It’s not just the COVID-19 pandemic, the questions raised about the safety of mail-in voting...

On a normal twelfth day of October, I’d stay in bed all day, only to emerge for coffee, flicking through the paper and then crawling back into bed. It is a full Monday off just to celebrate Christopher...

In my hometown, it was a right of passage to take piano lessons from a woman with long acrylic nails named Margarita. You’d take a year of lessons, screw up your final performance and then quit before you...

This might sound ridiculous, but there’s something magical about a public library. I grew up with this magic.  See, I read quite quickly. At the peak of my book consumption, I could blow through 10...

On Oct. 2, the first Open VISIONS Forum of the Regina A. Quick Center opened with Margaret “Peggy” Ellen Noonan, the writer best known for her 20 years spent at the Wall Street Journal, or her year spent...

If there’s one memory Anna Valentine ‘21 can pick out of her four years of running cross country at Fairfield University, it’d be last year’s Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Championship. You’d...