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 …
Every weeknight, a considerable number of Bowdoin students come together to eat dinner alone. It’s hard to imagine a time before the sacred institution of Moulton Express, but Director of Leadership Development Sara Binkhorst ’15 does. She was there when …
Last Saturday, Bowdoin students and staff joined the Brunswick community to celebrate Record Store Day. Brunswick’s three record stores offered customers limited-edition albums, food trucks and one-dollar vinyl records.
Mason Kahn ’28 was excited about attending Record Store Day. In …
One day last fall, after club tennis practice (drama), one of the captains, Mitra Hu-Henderson ’28 (queen), told me about Bowdoin Quiz Bowl. As the social captain of the quiz bowl team, Mitra explained that the group meets on the …
It was my first move-in day at Bowdoin. After lugging all my suitcases up to my room on Appleton fourth floor, I walked over to Farley Field House with my new roommates for the cookout. I quickly found my orientation …
No one approached storytelling quite like my grandmother. She read the beginning of books purely to understand the ending then returned to the middle if she was still curious about the intermediate happenings, or she read it all over again. …