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Some Friday evening deep into the throes of each semester, cocktail dresses, wrinkled suits and funky corduroy pants find an occasion to emerge: Student Night at the Museum. Among charcuterie spreads and a bar calling back to some Great Gatsbyian …
Majors have soared and declined in enrollment over the last 25 years at Bowdoin, changing how students engage with the liberal arts education. The Bowdoin Orient compiled data from 1999-2024 to understand trends in major enrollment and gather perspectives of …
Every day, students walking through the lobby of Morrell Gymnasium on their way to class or any of their other commitments pass by a large glass case in which a taxidermied polar bear lies. This bear was gifted by the …
With the increased prevalence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools, faculty across campus have had to adopt AI policies in their syllabi. However, these policies are by no means standardized.
Some faculty have allowed the use of AI in certain …
During my first and second semesters at Bowdoin, I was a grill assistant at Jack Magee’s Pub and Grill. One of the highlights of my job was getting to learn from and work with incredible chefs like Theresa Tetreault, who …
What Mark Mateo ’26 describes as a controversial component of the modern Peucinian Society is also the group’s most time-honored tradition: moderated discourse in which no opinions are dismissed outright.
Founded in 1805 as the Philomathian Society, the Peucinian …
At sunrise in Rosemary Beach, Fla., I feel the chilly salt air in my face and the security of feeling as though I have the world to myself. Looking out at the white sand meeting the ocean, I feel content, …
We all gathered from Cape Cod, Mass. and Brooklyn, N.Y. and Belfast, Maine and Vienna, Austria as mere strangers up 57 stairs (we counted) to the bare white walls of Appleton Hall room 405, unknowing of the home it would …
Months before graduation, Jenna Barac ’25 and Anya Workman ’25 both knew that they wanted to combine their interests in emerging technologies and people, but they didn’t know that those interests would lead them right back to Bowdoin. Barac and …
Every day, workers at Bowdoin labor tirelessly to make our campus a great place to learn and live. Often, this labor goes unrecognized by students and faculty or is invisible to us altogether. This article is the first in a …
