Life Lines
Homeostatic identity
Last New Year’s Eve, my friend asked if I felt an unchanging “core identity” within myself. I said no, but she felt such a core. So why didn’t I?
I pondered her question as I flipped through activities and tried …
Features
Burning Bowdoin Questions
Dark and damp
Have you ever been walking home from a late night in H-L in the rain, staring ahead with squinted eyes to navigate the dark path before you, only to feel your foot splash into a few-inch puddle, dousing the cuffs …
Talk of the Quad
This Bowdoin bubble
This place is a bubble. Of course it is. Every fall, two-thousand students leave their homes—many in affluent suburban neighborhoods outside of major cities—to head to a small town on the coast of Maine. As you cross the state border …
Talk of the Quad
Advice from a Sophomore Missing Her First-Year Floor
There’s nothing like walking home from a long day of classes and extracurriculars to find a dozen people crowding the thin halls of Coleman, munching on Hannaford brand potato chips and waiting for their love lives to be predicted from …
We've Seen It All
We’ve Seen it All: A Column with a Twist
Welcome back to school! Thank you so much to everybody who participated in and tuned into “We’ve Seen it All” last semester. In case you are new here, this is how the advice column works: Bowdoin students can anonymously send …
community
Creating space in our public place
Nothing captures the essence of Bowdoin like a warm sunny day on the Quad. Students lounge on beach blankets shielding their screens from the sun as they attempt to get a reading done. Hammocks and slacklines anchored between two trees …
Student Activities
Student Activities and College leadership reflect on student engagement
Campus culture is always evolving, but there are few instances when the change is as abrupt as the Covid-19 shutdown. As the College enters its second year with no Covid testing protocols or restrictions ingrained into campus life, student and …
Facilities
An electric love: Facilities Management switches to electric vehicles and equipment
Campus has been feeling electric lately—Bowdoin Facilities Management is aiming to switch entirely to electric vehicles and equipment by 2028.
Facilities started this initiative two years ago as a part of Bowdoin’s broader Climate Action Plan
for the campus to …
Dining Service
18,000 spoonfuls of sugar: the Bowdoin Bake Shop’s sweet and secret operations
At 4:30 a.m. each morning, the Bake Shop above Thorne Hall begins filling muffin tins with homemade batter. 2,000 muffins are baked each week, but the Bake Shop’s operations do not stop there. From homemade breads to pastries to pies …
Burning Bowdoin Questions
Burning Bowdoin questions: Why the polar bear?
Bowdoin has become synonymous with a bear native to a region over 1,000 miles north of its campus—the polar bear. So I set out to finally settle the question: Why the polar bear?
In the first installment of Burning Bowdoin …