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On my Orientation Trip to Merritt Island, we were given a huge block of Cabot cheese. Though we didn’t finish it, that block of cheese became a key topic of discussion during those treacherous first couple of weeks. Desperate for …
Team sports had never been part of my life until they became the only constant in my college experience.
Sports are embedded in American schools in a way they are not almost anywhere else. My international high school offered only …
There is one thing that guarantees a happy life more than anything else: warm, deep, enduring relationships. That is, according to the longest-ever study on happiness, conducted over a span of 88 years by Harvard University. Turns out, loneliness is …
Susan Collins positions herself as a common-sense, moderate politician who gets things done for Mainers. But what does the “moderate” label really mean? Someone like her might say that a moderate is someone who wants the government to work for …
What happened at Cornell University is not an aberration.
Last month, the Cornell Daily Sun reported on Jane Doe’s lawsuit against the university, which alleges that she was gang-raped at the Chi Phi Fraternity house in 2024 and that Cornell …
I grew up believing that nothing in the wilderness could scare me. I crave new experiences, new places, and I love teaching people about being wild. I’ve scaled 13,000-foot peaks in a lightning storm, galloped on horseback through the Yellowstone …
Somewhere between telling our stories and listening to someone else’s, we seem to have lost the art of conversation.
I don’t mean to indict the Bowdoin student body. If anything, I’m writing from a place of curiosity. But after enough …
I assume if we were all to wake up with the notification that—due to nuclear warheads or artificial intelligence—life as we know it would cease to exist, no one would be too surprised. In the American context, weapons are a …
You don’t have to look far nowadays to see criticisms of higher education in the news. Related themes tend to be concerning rising tuition costs, grade inflation and the specialization and pre-professionalization of higher ed across the U.S. Just the …
