Student Life
Bowdoin students, staff view the solar eclipse with awe
On Monday, a 115-mile-wide swath of Maine was covered in a silver-tinged shadow as a total solar eclipse engulfed much of the Pine Tree State. Bowdoin students left their dorms to get a brief glimpse of the event—one which won’t …
Brunswick
Mendoza’s “Lucky Night” short film takes to Brunswick streets
Editor’s Note April 12, 2024 at 2:49 p.m.: An earlier version of this article incorrectly listed the value of the missing lottery ticket as $250 million. The corrected value is $215 million.
Pacing the streets of Brunswick over the course …
Archives
A history of solar eclipses in totality at Special Collections and Archives
While many eclipse-chasers traveled north on Monday, Special Collections and Archives traveled back in time to present an open house on the history of eclipses documented at Bowdoin and beyond.
The idea was conceived by Special Collections Education and Engagement …
Poll
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Hello from high school: a conversation five years in the waiting
Over spring break, my mom handed me a letter. Sent by Ms. Clapp, my beloved high school anatomy & physiology teacher, it had languished under a mounting mountain of mail for untold weeks, maybe months. The sender’s handwriting surprised me: …
Becoming southern (in the Northeast)
It took living in the Northeast to come to know that I’m a southerner—that is, from the American South. I grew up emphasizing my Chicagoan origins rather than my hometown in Tennessee in forgettable introductions to familiar strangers, having learned …