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When the alarm finally rang, I didn’t expect it to be a car crash. I’d been a volunteer Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) at Harpswell Neck Fire Department for five months, more than a full semester, and had not yet received …
There was a woodpecker on the tree closest to my bedroom window on Sunday morning. His pecking sounded over the constant drizzling rain, becoming my very own aviary alarm, coaxing me in and out of sleep. His pecking reminded me …
If you live off-campus, your neighbors might be Bowdoin faculty or staff. A number of faculty members live within walking distance of the campus, which has not only been convenient for them but has also added to the sense of …
Staying on campus over the summer? Here’s the inside scoop of how to make the most of it, straight from fellow students who have lived the experience.
Your stay on campus starts with a move.
Aurélie Nishimwe ’26 remembers the …
Lying beneath the manicured Main Quad of campus lies a hidden world: A network of steam tunnels, long shrouded in myth and the scene of much mischief, inspiring generations of student curiosity and exploration.
These steam tunnels were first proposed …
Randy Nichols, associate vice president of the office of safety and security, was late to his final interview with the Orient. Sporting polarized shades and his signature khakis, he strode up hurriedly and apologized profusely. There was an incident on …
Today, social media apps like TikTok are dominated by the phrase “you ate”; a phrase so common that it has now taken its own form as, at least to me, a sentient being with her own voice. All comments with …
Eleanor Morrell met her husband Richard (Dick) Morrell ’50 during a formal dance at Westbrook Junior College, now the University of New England, in 1947. Two years after he graduated from Bowdoin, the couple moved to Brunswick, where Eleanor still …
Recent instances of colleges and universities facing pressure by the Trump administration to implement institutional demands or risk having their federal funding cut have sparked conversations about the contents of Bowdoin’s own funding.
Following Harvard University’s refusal to accede to …
Currently I’m sitting in bed on the bottom floor of my aunt’s apartment in Portland, OR (not the other Portland, the one in Maine where I go to school). It’s almost a hundred degrees outside. I angle the shades to …
