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's Resource Center.  She heads to Poland on a Fulbright in a few months.

Loneliness Isn't Valued Here

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 knowledge. Ashley is President of the African American Society.  She hopes to return to the Twin Cities after graduation.

Feeling the Weight of Bowdoin's History

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 experience led her to Peer Health.  She describes how she learned to talk about her privilege, but fell short in cultivating friendships across difference. Anna will be an elementary school apprentice teacher next year.

Misconceptions Regarding Hooking Up Explained (for the older generation)

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 Yik Yak and reads students' aversion to vulnerability through Batman v Superman. Ryan meditates on failures of understanding on campus. He is Co-President of the Bowdoin Film Society.

We're Afraid of Letting Other People Understand Us

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