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Embodying the Liberal Arts
by Doris Santoro
Conversations with Bowdoin College students about living and learning the liberal arts. Look for a new episode every Tuesday.
Episodes
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Don't Leave Anything Undone
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 discuss how her education has given her a sense of responsibility and her study away provided some...
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I Wasn't the Person I Thought I Wanted To Be
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 a thinker. Hannah also discusses the significance of women as mentors in finding her way. In the...
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I'm Not the Biggest Partyer
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” and why she’s called “Dad” in her a capella group. Having lived off-campus for two years, Roya...
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I Had This Interaction with a Man in a YMCA Hot Tub
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 for the past three years. Jack shares how he became a more confident and competent person by...
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I Felt Inadequate at Times
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 my first-year seminar their first semester at Bowdoin and who have taken a course with me in their...
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Sometimes Being a Person of Color Is a Class in Itself
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 Student Association at Bowdoin and was elected to be the At-Large Representative for the Ivy…
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I've Really Come Into Myself Here
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 extracurricular activities. Last summer, she knocked my socks off as my research assistant. This...
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Be Open to Other People's Interpretations of Your Opinion
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 engaging in conversations rooted in trust. Kyle is an offensive lineman on Bowdoin’s football team and...
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It’s Hard To Conceive that I’m Valuable in Certain Spaces
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. Ty reflects on how he has found meaning and purpose through great books.
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I've Had My Fair Share of Small Talk
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 small island in the Bay of Fundy. Emily is an English major with a concentration in creative writing...
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I Passed for a Very Long Time
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 be the point when she stopped passing as a "model minority." Mitsuki is co-president of the Asian...
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Bowdoin's About Working on Yourself
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 this summer. Ryan reflects on the reasons he mentors with Harpswell Coastal Academy's Gender and...
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I Never Knew What I Would Do at College Once I Got There
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 would be like for college to be more than a to-do item. Diego finds it easy to connect with...
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I'm at a Point Where I Don't Have a Good Answer
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 with a minor in Computer Science. He is a co-founder of Bowdoin’s Board Game Club and recommends…
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Sometimes I Think I'm Losing It
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 spiritually, academically, and socially – but not in the ways she had anticipated. As a first-gen...
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What Are My Professors Reading?
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 safe space for all students to air their concerns about and hopes for campus affairs. Harriet is a...
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I Finally Found My Groove
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 transition to Bowdoin and how he sees the liberal arts as a site for radicalism. He reveals his...
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A Lot of Care Comes from Staff at Bowdoin
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, despite asking for and receiving a doctor's kit for Christmas every year, beginning at the age of 2....
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If You Take One Path, You Might Not Be Able To Go Back
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 interests might close down others. Shanna was co-leader for Harpswell Community Mentoring through…
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Researching Lived Experience: Students of Color Getting to and through Elite Colleges
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 cultural competency. His upcoming honors project examines the experiences of students of color…
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You Have To Learn To Be Courageous
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 reflects on the significance of his gap year in Camden, NJ, his founding of the Eisenhower Forum, and…
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People Want To Put a Label on You
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 racial dynamics of her campus activism, and what she's learned from middle school girls.
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We Are Afraid of Letting People Understand Us
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...
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Misconceptions Regarding Hooking Up Explained (for the older generation)
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…
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Feeling the Weight of Bowdoin's History
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...
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Loneliness Isn't Valued Here
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.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Conversations with Bowdoin College students about living and learning the liberal arts. Look for a new episode every Tuesday.
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Doris Santoro
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Conversations with Bowdoin College students about living and learning the liberal arts. Look for a new episode every Tuesday.
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