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In my first semester at Bowdoin, I learned a term in Intro to Sociology that still sticks with me: “breakdown in the definition of the situation.” Coined by Erving Goffman, it refers to moments when our usual social roles blur …
Where did we leave off? Oh right, picture this. The lights are low, it’s dark, you’re dancing to that song you heard one too many times, and then what’s that you hear? Silence. The speakers cut out for the seventh …
We’ve all thought at some point in our lives, “Well, that was awkward.” That’s a thought that’s crossed my mind quite often in the year and a half I’ve been at Bowdoin. But instead of giving in to the temptation …
