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. …
The groundhog was right: There were six more weeks of winter. He’s such a sensation, though he’s only right 35 percent of the time. What else is revered as much for that low of a success rate? We should start …
Breaking a bone can mark a majorly distinct life period. Snap anything other than a toe or finger, and you have at least a month in recovery to look forward to with many daily inconveniences along the way. The result …
It’s that time of year again. Open Instagram and you’ll find yourself drowning (no, hurricanes can’t get us here, let’s say swimming) in a Caribbean sea of paradisiacal photos with varying degrees of aesthetic quality and colonial bullsh*t. Better known …
When I made the decision not to study abroad, I didn’t expect to be asked “why not?” as often as I have. To some extent, I get it, because while apparently around 50 percent of juniors study abroad, sometimes it …
I feel oddly still. Permanently going somewhere. Always alienated from somewhere else. I sit here on a large red cushion, whose tone casts itself boldly onto this scene. I have to get a rabies vaccine in 12 minutes. I don’t …
This past weekend, I fled Bowdoin’s blizzard conditions for the warm embrace of my sister and the city of Los Angeles. What began as a desperate attempt to outrun the isolation of Brunswick quickly became an escape from the winter …