Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Manuela Taff-Freire ’27 and other students share what makes them grateful in a special edition of TWIP. “I’m thankful for friends, breakfast at Saga, drawing classes, the arts campus and Seneca Lake,” she says.

William Ackerman ’25 and Jaheim Pierre ’25 are thankful for their “going-on-4-years” friendship.

Student athletes Marjorie Plants ’25 and Emma Burger ’26 are thankful for the William Smith athletics community, including the soccer and swimming and diving teams.

“I’m thankful for my friends, who are great role models and make me laugh,” Luke Viggiani ’25 says.

Community-Assistant Lamia Nur Rahman '26 is grateful for her residents, who recently wrote post-it notes for her filled with compliments. Sandeep Tissaaratchy '26 is thankful for his professors, who he’s had the opportunity to become close to this semester.

“I’m thankful for the faculty in the writing and rhetoric department who’ve made my path to graduation seamless,” Ella Weiss ’24 says.

Ahmed Wise ’24 is thankful for his family and a caring and supportive HWS community.

“I’m thankful for my health and the opportunity to study what I love: biology and chemistry,” Malak Fadlou-Allah ’24 says.

Matt Gleason ’27 is thankful for his friend Shreas Settles ’26. They play club soccer together.

Andrew Frohlich ’24 is thankful for friends, family and the beauty of the changing seasons.

“I’m thankful for my faculty in the physics and mathematics and computer science departments,” Khairul Islam ’25 says.

Ava Cornforth ’24 is thankful for her friends and family, and for the opportunity to go home for November Break to Milton, Mass.

Twins Lina Nour Hassini ’26 and Anis Jad Hassini ’26 are thankful to be together on campus.

Charlotte Miller ’27 is grateful for her supportive father.

Giorgi Bekauri '25 is thankful for the opportunity to study abroad in Latvia through the Center of Global Education in Fall 2024.

Gissel Tavarez ’26 is thankful for her parents’ support through college and for the HEOP program.

Benjamin Farrell ’24 is grateful for friends, family and Seneca Lake.

“I’m thankful for family, friends, opportunities at HWS and 1989 (Taylor’s Version),” Katelyn Oswalt ’24 says.