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It’s like birding without the eye-roll reputation, like plant-ID without geographical constraints, like collecting rocks without the guilt of extraction: cloudspotting, a hobby oblivious to privilege and location.
My cloud obsession started in an unlikely way: sitting on the toilet …
Sills Hall has been a campus staple since the building opened in 1952; in the decades after, it served as a longstanding home to the humanities. It held Smith Auditorium, which served as a cornerstone of the Cinema Studies department, …
During the first Trump administration, I followed the advice of seasoned organizers to select a specific issue to dedicate time, learning and action to. Having selected queer issues at large, I recognized very quickly that by far the largest threat …
You squash a honey bee as you sip your morning coffee and look out on the Maine coast. It’s your routine. What you likely fail to consider is that both the species of bee you’ve killed and the coffee on …
The weight of feeling doesn’t ask if you’re ready. It rises anyway—a lump in your throat, a sadness you can’t outrun. I am scared of how deeply I feel. It would be easier, I think, to harden myself against it, …
Student government is a kind of a fifth class. Having finished my work with Bowdoin Student Government (BSG), I thought I should write a sort of course review: what worked, what didn’t and how we can improve the institution in …
In the past three years, Bowdoin averaged 3.3 million pounds of trash, recycling and food waste per year—a significant increase from the three years before the pandemic, where the school averaged only 2.35 million pounds. These extra million pounds of …
This is an open letter undersigned by Carey Goldberg, Ronit BenShir and 19 other parents.
“We get a great many applicants and we choose the kindest ones.”
That’s our memory of the Bowdoin promotional brochure that came in the mail …
When I first came to Bowdoin, I tried to talk politics with everyone I met. This might not have been the best strategy for making friends, but hey, it’s what I love. The responses I received were disheartening. Not just …
This weekend is one of Bowdoin’s most storied and most leisurely traditions: Ivies. I often hear people decry this profound display of leisure as mere partying, or even worse, as a waste of time detrimental to our actual purpose here. …
