Talk of the Quad
Held by the tide
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, …
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Talk of the Quad
A random roommate success story
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 …
Hastings fellows navigate AI ethics and usage
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 …
The Campus Workplace
Molly Safford brews community at the Café
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 …
Campus community reacts to new class waitlist system under Workday Student
As Workday Student fully rolls out as the College’s official course registration system, students and professors this semester are dealing with waitlists and changing courses on Workday for the first time.
The new system has changed how waitlists work for …
Faculty
Faculty and staff reflect on academic freedom and attacks on higher education during AAUP forums
Bowdoin’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) held several panels this week in which faculty from different disciplines discussed the ways academic freedom is currently under attack in their various fields. These forums served as part of …
Zai Yang ’27 launches Polar Plate website
This past summer Zai Yang ’27 began a personal coding project following an online computer science class. The result? The Polar Plate: a website allowing Bowdoin students to view and rate meals from the daily menus for both Thorne …
Fantasy-themed cafe Elevenses opens on Maine Street
“Elevenses” is a colloquial English expression from the 18th century that means taking a light refreshment at around 11 a.m. But in Brunswick, it means a new fantasy-themed cafe on Maine Street.
Chris and Nicole Juntura, the owners, had a …
More than a degree: Unique friendship at Bowdoin
From orientation trip origin stories to intergenerational friendships, students at Bowdoin form friendships in unique ways.
An integral part of the Bowdoin first-year experience are orientation trips (o-trips). Whether students go on a trip with the Bowdoin Outing Club (BOC) …
Talk of the Quad
A polyglot loophole found in the Balkans?
While Serbs nowadays throw up a holy trinity salute to express their national pride and religion—like Albanians who sign an eagle across their chests with both hands—when I occasionally throw up my thumb, index and middle fingers in a photo, …