By Patrick Carney ’22 – Team Leader

Regardless of where you look to go to high school, everyone tells you one thing: “the time flies by.” Now looking back on my four years, I can confirm that this is absolutely true. Especially senior year.

After searching for potential colleges over the summer, I began compiling a list and beginning applications. While daunting at first, I managed to submit an application to numerous schools and, thankfully, I was accepted to a number of them. In my opinion, the fall of your senior year, in combination with either sports, new classes, or college applications, is […]

By Patrick Carney ‘22

“Facere et docere”: to do and to teach. This is the motto of the Congregation of Christian Brothers. Through service, academics, and faith, schools of the congregation aim to mold young people into the image of Blessed Edmund Ignatious Rice. While other schools adhere to the same academic standards as Brother Rice, service and faith place the Brother Rice community in a special group of schools.

During the pandemic, service became difficult to perform, and many of the school’s usual commitments needed to be placed on hold. Now for the first time since the pandemic began, Brother Rice students […]

By Patrick Carney ‘22

On the night I submitted my first college applications, my immediate family along with my grandparents went out to dinner. Conversation was jovial, and my grandparents asked me numerous questions about college applications. The most interesting questions came from my grandfather. He asked, “So how did you submit your applications? Did you mail them?”

At first, it almost sounded like a joke. Mail? Why would anybody mail documents? However, there was a time not too long ago when everything was done on paper. Colleges and universities have made substantial changes to the admission process over the past fifty years.

In […]