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Best Things

  1. The warm atmosphere and amazing faculty
  2. The dining hall food and service people; Super Snacks is great, too!
  3. Cooks Corner, Freeport, Portland, and Boston
  4. The huge Outing Club program
  5. The awesome housing available to students
  6. Ivies Weekend
  7. Taking classes on the 16th floor of Coles Tower
  8. Being close to amazing outdoor activities
  9. It's easy to get a campus job and make money at school
  10. The greatest mascot in our league: the Polar Bear

Worst Things

  1. The long winter
  2. The administration seems very bureaucratic at times
  3. Being towed without warning
  4. Brunswick goes to bed at 8 p.m.
  5. Watson Fitness Center
  6. 25% of the campus claims to be from Boston
  7. Hooking up can be awkward on such a small campus
  8. The football team
  9. Res Life can be very uncompromising
  10. The cliquey student body

Most Recent Contributing Author

Name: Danica Loucks
Hometown: Hamilton, MT
Major: Probably Sociology and German

Fun Fact: Danica loves to make up new recipes, do archery, and run long distances. She enjoys celebrating the summer and winter solstices in Finland with extreme light and extreme dark. She loves learning and using languages, as well as sitting and observing human interaction. She learned how to ride a bicycle using 'magic gloves' and embraces all outdoor activity. She began skiing at the ripe old age of two.

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