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View from the Top: Last advice: Make this place your home
I've replayed my first day on campus over and over again in my mind for the past week, but no memory can do it justice. Maybe it isn't in the initial campus visits, weighing Bowdoin up against your other colleges of contention, but it surely hits you all at once the first day you actually become a part of the school?I mean, a physical part of it. It's that feeling of coming home that I wish I were coming back to in the fall?instead, I'm moving out.
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View from the Top: When the Bowdoin bubble bursts, prepare for a real world collision
It was bound to happen, and I suppose if ever a time to have one, it's better to have your first car accident in the comfort of Bowdoin College. Okay, so full-fledged accident may be the wrong way to describe it, but even a fender bender causes a certain amount of stress, though my air bags were never deployed
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View from the Top: Salvaging the social scene: Seniors can feel the change
In an effort to separate out what exactly I am mourning the loss of this second semester of my senior year, I hesitate to say it's a place to party. Not even the first month back and I'm sure many seniors, not to mention underclassmen, would agree that Bowdoin is missing a certain sense of spirit.
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View from the Top: Seniors: Holiday parties are in session
With the semester coming to a close, there are a few things to take note of here...clearly the most important being that it's time to take advantage of the circuit of holiday events. Now that you're a senior, you know what to expect when it comes to holiday fun on campus; where you like to party, when it's appropriate to show, and how extreme to get.
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View from the Top: Your senior Thanksgiving, judgment day
Seniors, amidst this semester's confusion, there are few shinning moments?little glimmering bits of hope to grab hold of as the whirlwind of career searches and nights in the library pass you by.
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View from the Top: Senior hurrah: Never say "no" to late night
I arrived on campus for my last year at Bowdoin, raging with excitement, maybe just ready to rage. And then I remembered. This is my last year at Bowdoin College, my very last time to be a student here. I wrestled with what it meant: the end of my college education, the end of my college debauchery, and the end of an era. For the first time, coming back to Bowdoin didn't just mean coming back to another year of fun with my friends?it was coming back to the last year of fun with my friends here.