I first learned about Frederick the Great when I was assigned to create a Slides presentation about him in ninth grade. Scrolling through Wikipedia, I happened upon a whole page entitled “Sexuality of Frederick the Great.” I was …
Swept up in the frenetic rhythms of everyday life, seasonal changes can pass unnoticed. Some mark the tilt into autumn by the calendar, the reappearance of a favorite seasonal drink on a cafe menu or the chill in the …
I’ll admit it: I was overwhelmed during my first semester at Bowdoin College. Three thousand miles away from my home in California, I was ready to sink my teeth into Maine and did everything I could to find something to …
It’s hard to mess up an egg. They’re just so versatile. You can have them boiled or fried. You can have them sunny side up on a nicely toasted piece of sourdough bread (with feta on top if you’re distinguished—like …
Fears. We all have them, some useful, others not. At their best, they give us a healthy dose of caution and promote self reflection. At their worst, they can be daunting, all-consuming and limiting. When we stay quiet about them, …
The man wearing a baseball cap approaches our front door. Far from the door he stops and lays the box on our lawn of mostly hot dirt. Intrigued, I pause beside the stairwell. Just visible beyond the window trim is …
The common good, one of Bowdoin’s core tenets, dates all the way back to the opening of the College in 1802. Today, we see the common good in practice almost daily through the Joseph McKeen Center for the Common Good, …
For Assistant Professor of History Caylin Carbonell, history is powerful not just in the way it informs the present, but also in its ability to illustrate human agency. In her first semester at Bowdoin, Carbonell hopes to share this approach …
Unpopular opinion: We’re too hard on France. I know, I know, what could those baguette-loving, mustache-having colonizers offer us super cool Americans? The answer to that question is the contributions of one Victor Marie Hugo. Of all the mad lads …
If you told me a year ago that in my junior fall, I would be studying abroad, I would have probably shaken my head, puzzled. But if you said to me that I would be traveling to three countries across …