What makes Bowdoin special?

Catfish
Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:45:57 +0000

The people are ridiculously friendly. I’ll give you an example:

This past February/March I was planning overnight visits to Bowdoin and another northeastern LAC over spring break. I had already booked flights when I discovered that Bowdoin happened not to have official overnight visits during the time I would be there. Since I already had plane tickets, I was locked into that time.

I PM’ed a Bowdoin student who posts on this board and asked for some assistance. Despite never having been previously aware of my existence, he volunteered to ask around to see if I could crash in anyone’s room, and offered up the couch in his social house library as an option if nothing else worked out. He also was happy to let me, some random prefrosh, hang out with him all day.

From everything else I saw on that visit, such friendliness is the rule, not the exception, at Bowdoin.