Inside the Colby Fishbowl

Student bloggers on…
A troubled love affair with Foss Dining Hall (“Our relationship isn’t what it used
to be. Just the other night, I came over for a nice meal. And your main entree was wheat loaf. Wheat loaf? WHEAT LOAF! That’s called bread, Foss.).

Getting writing help from the Farnham Writers’ Center (“I just got back from the Writers’ Center. How I wish I could say I was one of the tutors. But alas, I too need advice on my own papers.”).

InsideColby bloggers making page one of the Times (“Guess what. We iC bloggers are famous. Well, kind of. … [T]he New York Times – the New York Times!—had a front-page article about student bloggers, and insideColby got a mini-shout-out.”)

These are among the many topics discussed in recent blog posts on insideColby.com. Unedited student voices.
insideColby.com/blogs

Watch, Listen, Learn

This summer Tarini Manchanda ’09 set out to learn what makes Colby Colby. She interviewed students and professors and, using skills learned in the American Dreams documentary filmmaking course and a gift for storytelling, she produced a 10-minute film called The Colby Experience.

Also this summer, Tamer Hassan ’11 made videos about everything from the Colby-Hume Center, where students hang out on the dock and in the lake, to recent grads who chose to stay in Maine to work—at the Natural Resources Council of Maine, MaineBiz, and, of course, L.L.Bean.
insideColby.com/video

Around noon on weekdays students begin streaming into Colby’s three dining halls. They breeze through the lines to get their cards swiped and grab anything from a salad (sometimes with vegetables from the student-run garden) or a made-to-order sub to an Asian bento box or a make-your-own noodle bowl. They gather with friends, fuel up, and take off for the next thing. What’s happening behind the scenes is not at the top of most students’ minds, but they appreciate the result. “They do a really good job in making sure there is a variety of different foods,” said Sharonda Bradley ’10. …

Secret Spots

College campuses can feel crowded at times, but Colby students manage to find their own, sometimes out-of-the-way, places to get their work done.
As seniors were wrapping up their final college classes last spring, insideColby asked them to reveal their secret study spots. Here’s what they bequeathed to underclassmen.