Embodying the Liberal Arts

Jackie Ricca is pursuing an Earth and Oceanographic Science and Environmental Studies major with a minor in Education. She is back at Bowdoin as a senior after a year abroad in New Zealand. She discu...

Hannah Baggs, from Columbus, OH, is graduating from Bowdoin with a coordinate major in Earth and Oceanographic Studies and Education. She reflects on how she came to see herself as a doer rather than ...

Senior Roya Moussapour is a Physics major with an Education minor from Larchmont, NY. She reflects on the significance of family in her life, moments when her mother acted like a “helicopter parent” a...

Hailing from Oakland, CA, Jack Mitchell is a senior majoring in Biochemistry and minoring in Education. He discusses how his interaction with a man in a YMCA hot tub shaped the course of his learning ...

David Wu, from San Francisco, is double majoring in Economics and Government and minoring in Asian Studies. My conversation with David is first in a mini-series of episodes with students who were in m...

Dylan Goodwill is a senior from Window Rock, Arizona majoring in Mathematics and Education and minoring in History. She is Diné, Lakota and Dakota; Dylan serves as Co-President of the Native American ...

Kate Berkley is a junior from Kansas City, MO who is studying political theory and literature. She reflects on her decision not to study away from Bowdoin and why she limited her participation in extr...

Kyle Losardo, from Harrison, RI, describes how he has found a way to listen to his inner self and be confident in his beliefs. As a white male conservative, he works through political tension by engag...

Ty Johnson is a senior from Baltimore who is majoring in Government and minoring in dance. He discusses the challenges of being understood and valued as a 23-year-old black man in the U.S. and abroad....

Emily Weyrauch, a senior from Connecticut, discusses her focus on developing more meaningful relationships. She explains how her class on bird songs led to her serving as artist-in-residence on a smal...

Born in Hiroshima, Japan and raised in New York City, senior Mitsuki Nishimoto describes how Prep for Prep enabled her to attend Bowdoin College. Becoming an Asian Studies major, she believes, might b...

Ryan Strange is a senior from East Granby, CT who is majoring in Government and minoring in Education. He recounts his strangest experiences at Bowdoin and in Los Angeles, where he interned at HBO thi...

Diego Guerrero is a rising junior from Dallas majoring in math. Despite being motivated primarily by a desire to skip high school classes, his exploratory visit to Bowdoin gave him a sense of what it ...

Greg Koziol is a rising senior from Summit, NJ. He discusses how he has adjusted his self-understandings and priorities after sustaining two concussions. Greg is a Gender and Women’s Studies major wit...

Esther Nunoo discusses the role of intuition in her life and how she is trying to trust her gut more often. A rising senior majoring in Anthropology, Esther reflects on how Bowdoin has challenged her ...

Harriet Fisher is studying patterns of arrests for heroin possession in Maine through the Gibbons Fellowship. As the Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) President, she wants to ensure that BSG offers a s...

You may find John Sledge wandering around Brunswick, and noting the effects of his presence in the community, as he enjoys his second summer in Maine. John reflects on his difficult academic transitio...

On the heels of the Cavaliers' NBA Finals win, Cleveland native Olivia Bean discusses the significance of carbs, friendship, and solitude in her life. She explains why she is no longer pre-med, despit...

In May, Shanna Yue graduated with honors in neuroscience and earned a minor in education studies. She reveals her secret to her staying calm despite her worry that choosing a path based on current int...

Rising Senior Walter Chacón is a Sociology major with a minor in Education Studies from Lynn, MA. He discusses the need for teachers, professors, and others working in student support roles to possess...

David Jimenez, a graduating senior from Pittsburgh, discusses his Catholic faith, conservative perspectives, and the courage it takes to live with commitments that challenge the status quo. He reflect...

Marcella Jimenez, a graduating senior from Dallas, Texas, discusses coming to Bowdoin from a bi-cultural and bilingual family. She reflects on her decision to become a Spanish major, the complex racia...

Ryan Szantyr, a graduating senior from Poland, Maine, offers the advice he wishes he had heard has a first-gen student. A Government major and Cinema Studies minor, he weighs the uses and abuses of Yi...

Anna Williams talks about what it was like to go to the same college as her two older sisters and father. She reflects on the challenges of developing a chronic illness in her first year, but how that...

Ashley Bomboka reflects on what it is like to be a black woman at Bowdoin who feels the weight of the College's long history. She discusses how she learned to process failure in the pursuit of knowled...

Graduating senior Michelle Kruk reflects on her experiences at Bowdoin as a Polish/Mexican woman from Chicago. She is Vice-President of the Bowdoin Student Government and Student Director of the Women...