Notre Dame is a building that I don’t get to have constant, prolonged contact with but nonetheless has had a significant impact on my life.  I first visited Notre Dame the summer after my freshman year of college. I am not a Catholic but I think that to really get the full impact of anything you have to immerse yourself in it.  So I went to Sunday Mass at Notre Dame the first week that I was there. It was an amazing experience that I have never had anything else come close to. After that I stopped by almost every day, which wasn’t really out of my way because I usually had to walk past it anyway on my way to most places.  When you walk in it’s like being transported somewhere else, the inside is huge and almost all the light is filtered through the gorgeous stained glass windows and the sound of the ceremony is very powerful no matter where you are in the building.