I remember being a little girl at the water’s edge. Sometimes, it was a deep blue hue, dotted with the sunlight’s reflection. Sometimes, it was churning into grey; at others, it was tinged with greens and overwhelmingly clear. It didn’t …
They tell me I’m one of the lucky ones. Even President Safa Zaki was surprised when I told her where I worked. When I learned that I would be working at the Hawthorne-Longfellow Library (H-L) as a first-year, I thought …
As I have begun to settle into the rhythms of Bowdoin, one constant comfort in the somewhat distressing, yet exciting process of finding my place at this school is the dinners. That is not to say that I always like …
Last week, as I took my mother-prescribed “get outside, it’s beautiful out” walk, I pushed past Saint John’s Cemetery on Pine Street and onto the Brunswick Landing Perimeter Trail. Initially, it was just like any other walk—the breath of fresh …
At the beginning of the academic year, Harvard College dean David J. Deming sent a school-wide email proposing a policy that encouraged professors across all departments to use AI, including in writing courses. Inevitably, this led to immediate backlash from …
I once asked an elementary school student why he hadn’t completed the math worksheet his teacher had assigned. “Because I’m a bad kid,” he responded with a shrug. I’ve heard similar expressions about other students I’ve tutored or mentored, sometimes …
I studied abroad at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea last spring, an endeavor that introduced me to a range of new experiences. I discovered the simultaneous ultimate freedoms (best public transport in the world) and ultimate limitations (everything costs …
Despite the beautiful views and trails we have around campus and the larger Brunswick area, what has consumed my mind during most of my solo runs recently is a photograph. It features my dad, my mom, my brother and me, …