Fifty things to do before you graduate

Orientation: Under one roof

First Year Bricks and the College House system

“So are there fraternities at Bowdoin?” Get ready—people are going to ask you this question over and over in the next four years, and probably long after. There is no Greek life at Bowdoin, and the student handbook explicitly prohibits fraternities and sororities. Bowdoin phased out its co-ed fraternities in the 1990’s and the College Houses (or, as they’re more commonly called: social houses) were instituted to replace the Greek system.

Orientation: On the house: the College House affiliate experience

“So are there fraternities at Bowdoin?” Get ready—people are going to ask you this question over and over during the next four years, and probably long after. There is no Greek life at Bowdoin, and the student handbook explicitly prohibits fraternities and sororities. Bowdoin phased out its co-ed fraternities in the 1990s and the College Houses (or, as they’re more commonly called, social houses) were instituted to replace the Greek system.
There are eight social houses on campus—Ladd, Baxter, Reed, Macmillan (“Mac”), Quinby, Helmreich, Burnett and Howell—and they are primarily inhabited by sophomores.
After much discussion and deliberation, the Office of Residential Life has instituted some substantial changes for the College House system this year. In the new system, each floor of a first year brick is affiliated with a different College House; your friends on the floor below you will be affiliates of a different House and your fellow affiliates will all live in different dorms. (Refer to the inset for a full list of floor and House affiliations.)

Orientation

Fifty things to do before you graduate

An updated list of essential traditions for every Bowdoin student

August 27, 2012

Go to an igloo party on the fields
Tour the Bliss Room in Hubbard
Streak the Quad
End the night at Brunswick Diner
Find your way into Bowdoin’s network of underground tunnels
Visit the glow in the dark rock room in Druckenmiller Hall
Stop by Frosty’s when it opens at 4 a.m.
Pull an all-nighter in the Chamberlain Room
Eat at all of Brunswick’s Asian restaurants (10 and counting)
“Win” dinner at Thorne—be the first to arrive and last to leave
Hang out with Security at a College House party
Throw a College House party
Attend office hours with President Mills
Tuesdays at Joshua’s
Charter a club
Attend a BSG meeting
Do an independent study
Be mentioned in the Security Report
Find the red spoon in all the art in The Gelato Fiasco (even the ship)
Climb Mt. Katahdin
Be retweeted by @bowdoincollege
Write your name on the chapel bathroom door
Go squirrel fishing or ice fishing
Visit Professor Morgan’s office
Go to a concert in Portland
Win an intramural championship
Skip a class
Write a Letter to the Editor
Spend a night at Colby or Bates
Attend a naked party
Take a class on the 16th floor of Coles Tower
Find the Brunswick commons, then explore
Go swimming in the Androscoggin
“Hit the cycle”-get an A, B, C, D, and F. Bonus points for a W
Get drinks with a professor
Go to four Brunswick bars in one night
Go to Crack House (even if you pledged you never would)
Get a lobster roll from Libby’s Market
Get your recipe used at Thorne or Moulton
Go polar-bearing
Be a part of a spontaneous dance party at Super Snack
Befriend a Brunswick resident
Do something inappropriate at the Inappropriate Party
Get invited (and go) to a professor’s house for dinner
Have an ice-skating date on the quad
Go to an air show at the former Naval Air Station
Become real friends with someone you meet at Ivies
Attend a Bowdoin Film Society screening
Go to free cone day at Ben and Jerry’s in Freeport, or to the Moxie festival in Lisbon.
Be (mis)quoted in the Orient

See also the original “50 Things” on the BSG website.

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