The Bowdoin Orient - Vol. 143, No. 0 - September 3, 2013

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26. Win an intramural

championship

27. Skip a class

28. Write a Letter to the Editor

29. Spend a night at Colby or Bates

30. Attend a naked party

31. Take a class on the 16th loor o

Coles Tower32. Find the Brunswick commons, then explore

33. Dance loor make-out

34. Hit the cyclehook up with someone rom

every class year you overlap with (ex: 11-17)

35. Get drinks with a proessor

36. Go to our Brunswick bars in one night

37. Go to Crack House (even i you pledged you

never would)

38. Get a lobster roll rom Libbys Market

39. Get your recipe used at Thorne or Moulton

40. Go polar-bearing

41. Pee on every social house

42. Beriend a

Brunswick resident

43. Do something

inappropriate

at the Inappropriate Party44. Get invited (and go) to a proessors house

or dinner

45. Have an ice-skating date on the quad

46. Swim in the bioluminescence at the Coastal

Studies Center

47. Become real riends with someone

you meet at Ivies

48. Attend a Bowdoin Film Society screening49. Go on an Outing Club trip

50. Be (mis)quoted in the Orient

1. Go to an igloo party

2. Tour the Bliss Room in Hubbard

3. Streak the Quad

4. End the night at

Brunswick Diner

5. Find your way into

Bowdoins network o underground tunnels

6. Visit the glow-in-the-dark rock room in

Druckenmiller Hall

7. Go to Frostys when it opens at 4 a.m.

8. Pull an all-nighter in the Chamberlain Room

9. Eat at all o Brunswicks Asian restaurants

(10 and counting)

10. Win dinner at Thornebe the last to leave

11. Hang out with Security at a College House party

12. Throw a College House party

13. Attend oice hours with President Mills

14. Tuesdays at Joshuas

15. Charter a club

16. Get drunk o coee brandy

17. Do an independent study

18. Be mentioned in the Security Report

19. Find the red spoon in all the art in the

Gelato Fiasco

20. Climb Mt. Katahdin21. Be retweeted by @bowdoincollege

22. Write your name on the chapel bathroom door

23. Go squirrel ishing or ice ishing

24. Visit Proessor Morgans oice

25. Go to a concert in Portland

50 Things To Do Before You GraduateEssential activities for every Bowdoin student (according to the Orient)

Illustrations by Mik Cooper.

Adapted from a list created by Bowdoin Student Government and the Offi ce of Residential Life.


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to be the strongest during

the first few weeks of school.

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as I imagine it does or most frst yearswith pilgrimages

to whichever house happened to be hosting a campus-wide

party. But once the awkwardness o the frst ew weeks

(What dorm do you live in?Where are you rom?Which

pre-o were you on?) had aded, I no longer elt the need to

take drunken reuge in the anonymous crowds o campus-

wides. I preerred smaller, less rowdy evenings, and ound

them at my a liate house, Reed.

Eventually I realized that the distinction between sopho-mores and frst years did not prevent me rom beriending

house residents, and by the time the year ended, many Reed

residents were riends o minepeople I met or breakast

nearly every day. Looking back, I wish I had acted less sheep-

ishly at the beginning o the year. Reed House had welcomed

me rom the start; I was just too shy to take advantage.

-Garrett Casey 15

Reed House 2012-2013

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cited about anything and everything. I acted more like a sorority

pledge than a frst year Polar Bear. What I didnt realize was that its

okay to be impressed and/or overwhelmed by the College House

scene. Youre not rushing a sorority; the house members arent

picking the coolest reshmen and oering them bids. They want

to be there to answer your silly questions and listen to your excite-

ment about your frst campus-wide party.

Once I got over my reshman complex, having riends in Mac

turned out to be really useul. Two o the girls in the house bought

me abric and taught me how to drape a toga or my frst Epicuriatoga party. Once I accepted the act that I was inescapably a nave

reshman, I started to beneft rom the wisdom Mac had to oer

me.

-Emma Peters 16

Coleman Hall 2012-2013

For much o my frst year, I waited or a personal invite

rom a resident beore venturing over to my a liate house.

I fgured that houses sent out mass invitation emails as an

obligatory measure, and that anyone who they really wanted

to hang out with would received a hand-penned note by owl.

This, in retrospect, was stupid. The more the merrieris a pop-

ular sentiment at Bowdoin, especially when it comes to social

house events. Dont let a little social anxiety prevent you rom

chilling at your a liate house early and oten.

-Sam Chase 16

Helmreich House 2013-2014

I spent the majority o the Inter-House Olympics trying to

leave. The tug-o-war, dodgeball and racing around elt more like

measures o ftness than ways or house members to bond with

their a liates. My buddy and I exchanged a ew hal-hearted

words (Hey man, Im your buddy. Oh cool!was the entirety o our

relationship). Beore long, I elt more intimidated than welcomed.

With a bad frst impression o the College Houses, I kept dismiss-

ing house membersriendly gestures as disingenuous. Not until I

re-metsomeone who had tried to beriend me at the Inter-House

Olympics did I realize that I had judged too soon. Instead o making

riends with her early on, I was too guarded and simply shrugged

her o. Were now good riends. In retrospect, I should have given

everyone a chance rom the start and attended at least a ew (or

even any) house events. Once I opened up, College Houses became

more than just venues or parties and drunken hook-ups; they

became places where I met some o my best riends at Bowdoin.

-Hy Khong 16

Reed House 2013-2014

Heres some wisdom rom a seasonedupperclassman (just kidding,

most o us still have no idea what were doing, and i we seem like we do,

it just means were good at aking it). These are things Ive done, worried

I was going to do, witnessed, or heard aboutand I want to warn you

about them.

Dont get too drunk the frst Thursday night at your a liate house;

no one wants to wake up not remembering their frst night o college.

I you hook up with someone in a social house, be prepared to meet his

or her riends in the morningprobably because theyre sitting right

outside the door when you leave. Throughout the year, go to events at

your a liate College House. Even i the people living there seem scary,

repeated exposure turns them into real human beings--and you might

even become riends. I you make plans to have brunch with your buddy,

show up. Its rude not to, and i they end up having any say in whether

you should live in a College House, they probably wont eel inclined to

let you in. (Actually, i you make plans with anyone, show up; no one

likes being stood up.) Dont try to be the chillest-girl-at-the-partyno

one will think youre cooler because you think everyone else is lame. I

you dont want to live in a College House, thats okay; I promise sopho-

more year will be just as un. Make real riends with people older than

youwe all need places to stay when we come back or Homecoming,

so were inclined to be riends with you as well.

-Natalie Kass-Kaufman 15

West Hall 2011-2012

A lot o the frst social events o your frst year are hosted by

the Houses, like the Inter-House Olympics. I remember charg-

ing en masse rom Boody Street towards Farley ater painting

our aces and getting our blue Reed shirts. My oormates and

I gave each other piggy-back rides onto the tur feld and com-

peted alongside our Boody Buddies in all o the challenges

planned by the Inter-House Council. It was a great night o

getting to know people that ended with my oormates and

I talking until late.

Other College House programming is defnitely worth tak-

ing advantage o as well: Reed House had us over to watch the

Super Bowl and presidential election results, which were good

opportunities to hang out with a dierent crowd.

-Michael Colbert 16

Moore Hall 2012-2013

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In a long line at the pub, call in and order over the phone to jump the line.

When entering the Coles Tower elevator lobby, use the let door; its way aster.

Get on a courses waiting list beore the course cards are even out.

The Ca oten gives out ree letover ood in Smith Union late at night.

Ask or a coee card at the Caget it stamped when you buy a coee and every seventh coee is ree.

You get a discount at the Ca or bringing your own reusable mug.

Download the Bowdoin Dining app.

BSG sponsors ree Brunswick Taxi rides every weekend night.

We have a radio station, WBOR 91.1 FM.

The water ountain on the second oor o HL (in the staircase) is the best on campus. I you check out a reserve book an hour beore closing, the remaining hour pushes into the next day, so you

turn two hours into ten.

Bowdoin has two woodworking shops.

Beriend the shuttle drivers...

...And the housekeeping and dining sta.

Its nearly impossible to get transported by drinking beer.

I youre trying to get into a high-demand class, declare a temporary minor in that subject to get priority.

Make your periods 14-point to instantly lengthen any essay.

Thanksgiving dinner: a) dont miss it b) arrive very early or very latethe ood will still be there. And all

three lines lead to the same spread.

There is only one easy way to get out o the Reed basement, so dont descend on a crowded night unless

youre prepared to stay down there or a bit.

Studzinski Hall is not just or music majors.

When applying to social houses, check the box on the application.

Use the computers in the basement o HL, but print upstairs. Buying Bean Boots, or the equivalent, is a worthwhile investment.

Use your OneCard downtown: Dominos Pizza, Aki Sushi and Hibachi, Flipside Pizza, Henry and Marty

Restaurant, Joshuas Restaurant and Tavern, and Wild Oats Bakery and Ca.

Showing your student ID at Wild Oats will give you a 10% discount on Sunday.

Best bathrooms: Smith Union hallway gender-neutral bathroom. Hubbard side staircase oor-and-a-hal

bathroom. Adams frst-oor kitchen/bathroom. Hubbard second oor bathroom, right next to the water

cooler. Chapel bathroom. Worst bathrooms: Hubbard basement.

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ILLUSTRATION BY MIK COOPER

POLAR BARES: Embrace social awkwardness head-on when you attend one of Bowdoins fewnaked parties (Number 30 on the Orients list of 50 Things To Do Before You Graduate,see Page 2.)

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someone, dont go to Crack

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Coming from a public high

school in the conservative

South as a Hispanic gay

male, Bowdoin seemed

like heaven and hell

at the same time.

Y k, :We went on the Class of 2017 Face-

book group and asked what questions

you wante d us to addre ss in this issu e.

The results are below. All answers are

from Orient staff members.

What is the hardest transition

from high school?

Building a completely new schedule.

Youve spent the last 12 years having

a very clear understanding of exactly

where youre going to be for the major-

ity of your day. Thats over now. Its easy

to get into a trap of thinking, oh I only

have an hour between these classes.

I cant get anything done then. But

you actually can. I try to get up at the

same time everyday and do some work

at breakfast before my classes, because

Ive learned I work better in the morn-

ing and it gives me a lot more structure

to my day.

What is the best two- to five-mile

running route near campus (some-

thing to get up and do before class

in the morning as a daily workout

for less intense runners)?

The Brunswick Commons is great for

quiet runs in nature. Its about a mile

up Harpswell Road from Longfellow

Avenue, and there are a handful of great

off-road trails. You can also reach it from

running on a path behind the Farley soc-

cer fields.

What advice do you wish someone

else had given you?

If you think youll ever want to take an

upper-level English class, all else being

equal, take an English first-year seminar.

If you think you might want to do Outing

Club trips at some point, do it freshman

year. If it feels hard to leave for a week-

end day/night now, know that it will

only get harder as commitments build

up later on.

Best places to thrift?

The Salvation Army (affectionately

called Sal-Vo by its loyal Bowdoin cus-

tomers) far up on Pleasant Street has

some unbelievable finds if youre look-

ing for old school LL Bean duds or jeans

to cut into jorts.

Estilo, a consignment store with

more contemporary items and great

purses, is also on Pleasant Street, but

its right at the intersection of Maine and

Pleasant, so its an easy walk from cam-

pus. Theres also a Goodwill in Topsham,

on the way to Target, that has great finds

if you can finagle a car.


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