It�s a Recession

Sometimes it’s nice being woken up on a Saturday morning by a phone call suggesting a spontaneous trip to Sugarloaf. You’re optimistically ignorant: you don’t even check the mountain’s website to see what conditions are like. Layers are good in any weather. You rehydrate on... Read more »

 

 

February Feelings of Flux

The start of spring semester is always really quite hectic. In my opinion, it is more hectic than midterms or finals week. I suppose this is because it takes me about three weeks to develop a workable routine for the semester—something efficient enough for me to get all of my homework done,... Read more »

 

 

Flight or fight

One of my friends said that she can't sleep sometimes, thinking about the possibility of an asteroid strike destroying the planet . It's a pretty unsettling thought, the idea of earth being gone in one swift moment.  I believe that there's a fate even worse. The fate of... Read more »

 

 

Class of 1966 25th reunion video by John '65 and Gretchen Wollam O'Connor '66

A 12-minute video with images from the mid-1960s at Colby. The video contains music and audio clips from the era and was shown to the Class of 1966 at their 25th reunion in 1991.

 

 

All Play and No Work

JanPlan is a time for the young, creative minds at Colby to pursue personal interests in an intellectual environment which most college age students do not get to experience. Colby’s website states that JanPlan provides “students opportunities to experiment outside of their major or to... Read more »

 

 

Diurnality is Overrated. Go Nocturnal! At Least During Jan Plan

I’ve been thinking a lot about culture lately. It’s one of those things that is always on my mind because, while an abstraction, it’s everywhere. Culture is what weaves humanity together, yet there are so many different strands of it—all changing and in crisis at different... Read more »

 

 

Snow!

Weirdly enough, it didn't really start snowing until this January. Oh sure, it snowed a few times on Halloween and Thanksgiving. It didn't really "count" though when the snow was all melted away. Much to our mild confusion, Colby was a snow-free campus during December. Now the snow is back and all... Read more »

 

 

"Mwenye" - Friends

Call me crazy, but before returning to Uganda this January, I was arguably more apprehensive about being immersed in a group of new white kids my own age than I was about being halfway around the world in a different culture and stressful setting. I had spent a month at the Nyakibale Hospital last... Read more »

 

 

The Expanding Universe

It used to be that we printed the magazine and mailed it to you. That was so 2008.