For more than 20 years, one rite of passage has awaited Puget Sound theatre arts majors each spring—and it isn’t graduation. The Senior Theatre Festival is something of a trial by fire, but Loggers are well prepared to take the stage and not easily singed.

On a recent Friday evening, Chris Porter ’19 was in his element. He darted around Upper Marshall Hall, greeting attendees of the first-ever Puget Sound Entrepreneurship Summit, a two-day event that he had been planning throughout his senior year.

One evening last June, philosophy professor Ariela Tubert and Hispanic studies associate professor Brendan Lanctot led their class along the narrow, labyrinthian paths of Recoleta Cemetery on the acropolis of Buenos Aires, where more than 6,400 above-ground burial sites quietly tell the story of this complicated country.

She would get to fill two of the vacant storefront windows of the historic F.W. Woolworth building on Broadway with art installations that would be on public view alongside the work of more established artists.

For three and a half days in late August, roughly 700 first-year and transfer students explored the Seattle-Tacoma region by participating in one of 64 curated immersive experiences from mountains to museums.