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Debriefs, life updates, quick check-ins that serendipitously turn into lengthy storytimes.… My Bowdoin experience is defined by an incredible range of dialogues. Reflecting on the past four years, what stands out is not a specific event, or extreme novelty, but …
Have you ever noticed how your friends are more curious about your boyfriend than your best friend from home?
As a proud member of the single population here at Bowdoin, I’ve started to notice a pattern of how the attention …
Ever since my first day at Bowdoin, I never once doubted what my major would be. I still have a year left at Bowdoin, but I’ve finished the Government and Legal Studies major with spare credits. What I have yet …
This is it, Bears! The last edition of the Orient, the last full week of classes, and (for seniors) the last few days we’ll be here on campus. Although I will miss the people and the campus dearly, one thing …
What is the most powerful tool humans have to experience lives beyond our own? What, more than anything else, sparks the fires of our imagination, increases our emotional intelligence, unites us with one another and shows us how much we …
Though the Hunt-Lenox Globe is one of only two known relics of the Age of Discovery to bear this landmark medieval phrase, there are myriad examples of maps on which stretches of sea or far-off edges of civilization are marked …
There is a particular kind of silence that begins to settle in the aftermath of a breakup. Rather than a peaceful, meditative silence, it is the silence of absence, brought about by time suddenly emptied, by the hollow outline of …
“Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”
I’ve lived by these words since I was 13, when my grandmother left a collection of Mary Oliver’s poems on my pillow. I read the whole thing, cover …
When I went home after my first year, someone I had known for years asked me a deceptively simple question: “Who are you?” I answered the way most people would: generically listing what I love, what I do, what I …
Are we overscheduled? Short answer: Yes. Capital Y. Somewhere between another planned meal and sprinting to my third class of the day, I started thinking about when rest started to feel like something we had to earn. When scheduling became …
