Bowdoin’s Class of 2030 arrived last Monday with 554 students, well above the roughly 515 first years the College typically enrolls. The jump has meant triples in Osher Hall and West Hall, more quints in Coleman Hall and Moore Hall …
As students arrived back on campus, a new sight on Coe Quad greeted them: a pollinator garden brimming with native flowers. This project was completed over the summer, but the decision to create it arose out of a prior campus …
This year has been my year of poetry. I have scoured the internet for poetry, written and rewritten poetry, memorized and recited poetry, lived in it, muttered it to myself, printed the stuff out and taped it to my walls, …
For better or for worse, I am a deeply nostalgic person. But I didn’t realize this until quite recently, perhaps because I usually don’t enter bouts of nostalgia until everyone else falls asleep and I lie awake trying to do …
Last March, when we found out which blocks were in MacMillan House (Mac), I was honestly just confused. I didn’t quite see the vision, and I was unsure if we could bond when it felt like the only thing we …
I wrote my CommonApp essay about the fact that my sister is deaf and how growing up, my “superpower” was being her translator. As a brutally shy kid, the privilege of sound, and thus my voice, were ones I reluctantly …
Here is something I know about you: There was a version of you, not so long ago, who could be made completely content by a five-dollar box from a drive-through window. Or perhaps it was your most recent meal at …
Despite some complaints about limited dialogue on campus, there are a fair amount of clubs worth parsing through that have been created to provide a space for people to discuss ideas freely. Due to the nature of this column, I’ve …
Last April, in a campus-wide email by President Safa Zaki, it was announced that Senior Vice President and Dean for Academic Affairs Jen Scanlon is stepping down from her role as a college administrator at the end of this academic …