Finding comfort in a procedural answer
I haven’t called myself a “math person” since I was 12 or so, probably about when they were adding letters to math in the rural Texas curriculum. I didn’t want to dislike it; I had found a lot of love …
Elias McEaneney
Op-Ed Contributor — Class of '27
Number of articles: 3
First Article: February 21, 2025
Latest Article: January 30, 2026
SJP
Anonymity, publicized
My peers were suspended for two weeks for publicly, kindly and passionately expressing their beliefs in a 24/7-publicly available space—a space that College security swiftly shut down.
The following YikYaks, which I view as genuine threats against students’ physical, emotional …
Palestine
A devastation of values
“We believe that your perspective is crucial to our conversations. We know that your hard work, combined with a Bowdoin education, can quite literally change the world.”
Thus ends the first paragraph of my acceptance letter to Bowdoin. Now, just …