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Allie Doyle


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Doyle '18: Grades will not define your identity

I’ve always found Brown to be a calming environment. The simplified grading system, the guarantee that no F’s will haunt my transcript and the general emphasis on learning over achieving generally keeps my stress level lower than that of students at other universities with atmospheres that encourage ...

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Doyle '18: What we learned from the St. Paul’s trial

About a week ago, a trial closely watched by many (myself included) came to an anticlimactic close. Owen Labrie, a former student at the prestigious St. Paul’s School of New Hampshire, was given a year in jail for the sexual assault of a young girl. At the time of the assault, he was 18, while she ...

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Doyle '18: Big girls still cry

I still remember my biggest fear about entering high school. I convinced myself that I was finally too old to cry in school. “What am I going to do if I get hurt in gym class?” I worried. I got over this idea fairly quickly. I cried the first day because I missed my middle school friends. And the ...

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Doyle '18: Don’t fear the smartphone

You’ve probably gotten the “your phone is ruining your life” lecture before. You’re missing the world around you. Friendships are no longer meaningful. Social skills and etiquette are things of the past. My go-to response has always been a sarcastic retort of “You’re right, let’s go back ...

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Doyle '18: Symbolism matters

If you have checked Facebook, picked up a newspaper or spoken to a Brown student over the last few days, you are likely well aware that the University has chosen to revoke Bill Cosby’s honorary degree awarded to him in 1985, following the lead of Fordham University and Marquette University. This decision ...

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Doyle '18: Tolerating intolerance

This morning, in the midst of my rush to class, I was stopped by a group of men with microphones and pamphlets proclaiming their faith outside the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center. I watched most students ignore the disruption and refuse the pamphlets. This is a common occurrence on campus. I’ll ...

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Doyle '18: In defense of simpler summers

I distinctly remember posing for my mother in my new suit at the end of May, looking like a little girl playing dress up in business attire. Her smartphone camera flashed a few times, and within moments the picture of her high-achieving daughter awaiting the first day of her summer internship was on ...

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