Bowdoin '04 here; we were 2-30 in my 4 years in Brunswick

Bowdoin '04 here; we were 2-30 in my 4 years in Brunswick
by irishlaw2010 (2020-07-27 17:03:54)

In reply to: Bowdoin College is now awful in football. posted by G.K.Chesterton

I was friends with a lot of those guys in my class. Really tough senior year. Lost three of those games by a combined 5 points including losing to the other two Maine teams (Bates 20-17 and Colby 7-6) in heartbreaking fashion.

It helps to learn the important life lesson that sometimes things don't get better and the light at the end of the tunnel can just be a freight train coming at you.

We are good at field hockey, women's basketball, and (as alluded to below) bayonet charges from elevated positions once we run out of ammo.

A school which punches above its weight class

in terms of national importance.

Click here for link at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bowdoin_College_people

In a "if you had it to do all over again and had to do

...something different than you actually did" scenario, Bowdoin would be high on my list.

It's funny

I really enjoyed my 4 years at Bowdoin. Many of my best friends to this day were classmates from those years. The campus is beautiful, you're close to the ocean, the outing club has weekly trips (Katahdin, sailing, sea kayaking, Appalachian Trail, snowshoeing/xc skiing, etc.) that you can go on for basically free.

That being said, it's a tiny school (just over 1800 kids now but was just over 1600 when I was there) which is both good (you know basically everyone) and bad (you know basically everyone). Sometimes, I felt that I missed out on the big-time college campus scene.

I was happy to go to ND for law school and live in a hall as an AR because I felt like I got to see that side of college life as well.