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Springtime birdsong and budding flowers have returned, giving me an excuse to turn off my music, put away my headphones and walk across campus with open ears. Usually, I listen to music automatically when I walk about campus. This week, …
Welcome back to Turning Point! In case you are new here, we interview Bowdoin alumni and Mainers about the experiences that shaped their twenties and share their stories with Bowdoin students.
For our final column, we present “Turning Point Wrapped.” …
Dr. Shannon Jackson entered his position as director of counseling services on November 1, 2023. He brought with him plans to streamline accessibility to counseling services and place a larger emphasis on reaching out to students and hearing their opinions.…
While other senior students might be working on job applications and going through numerous interviews, three seniors found themselves scouring for seed funding, working on elevator pitches and contacting lawyers to create a registered company. After graduating, David Ma ’24, …
“I think I need to experience ego death” is scrawled in looping script across two pages of my journal, a keepsake from an especially taxing Sunday a week before spring break. Don’t worry! Even then, I saw the ridiculousness of …
Students often venture into professors’ offices to discuss topics for a potential paper or to ask a question about the next problem set, but rarely learn about the meaning behind the decorations and trinkets that they display in their space. …
It’s one of the last iterations of the advice column with a twist! In case you’re new here, this is how it works: Bowdoin students submit anonymous questions via a QR code, and older community members from People Plus—a community …
It took living in the Northeast to come to know that I’m a southerner—that is, from the American South. I grew up emphasizing my Chicagoan origins rather than my hometown in Tennessee in forgettable introductions to familiar strangers, having learned …
Over spring break, my mom handed me a letter. Sent by Ms. Clapp, my beloved high school anatomy & physiology teacher, it had languished under a mounting mountain of mail for untold weeks, maybe months. The sender’s handwriting surprised me: …
Welcome back to Turning Point! In case you are new here, we interview Bowdoin alumni and Mainers about the experiences that shaped their twenties and share their stories with Bowdoin students.
This week, we sat down with Pulitzer Prize-winning author …
