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Departmental Alumni Liaisons (Sherpas)

Background

There are 23,000 Bowdoin alumni, many of whom are very willing to support Bowdoin students. But it can be daunting for a student to identify the right alums to connect with, and when they attempt to do so, they may not successfully connect due to a wide variety of reasons beyond their control. As a result, the network is less powerful than they might have hoped, and their outcomes may be affected.

Goals:

• Increase the connection success rate between students and relevant alumni.
• Increase the occurrence and quality of alumni mentorship of students.

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Home Electrification at a Glance

There are a lot of reasons why you might want to move your home toward being fully electric, whether it's principles – your home's carbon footprint, dependence on foreign oil – or practical, like rising fuel costs or solar financial incentives. In any case, most of our houses weren't built to take full advantage of modern, efficient electrical systems, so it's worth doing some homework and planning. This is a quick primer on the core concepts so you know where to focus.

Solar

If you move to use electricity for everything in your home, you'll be using more electricity than you likely have in the past, so driving the cost of that electricity as low as possible is usually a great move. Here in Massachusetts, we have very high electricity rates, and there are currently some pretty decent incentives for solar installation, so putting solar on your roof can be a critical way to make this all sustainable.

Solar power systems cost a fair bit to install, but cost approximately

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Making Home WiFi better

So your WiFi at home isn't great?

First, make sure that you're getting a good connection when you're near the router. The easiest way is to get close to it with a computer or phone you find to be "fast enough" and go to https://fast.com in a web browser. You'll want to make sure the result you get is reasonably close (within 10-15 percent) to the promised speed of your connection from Comcast or whomever. That will make sure you don't have to replace the router anyway – you might expect a router to last 5-6 years, give or take. It'll still work after that, but it probably won't keep up with the speed increases of your internet connection.

If you aren't getting the speed you expect, you should probably get a new router. That may not solve your coverage problem, but if you're not happy with speeds close to the router, you won't be happy when you're far away from it.

Okay, so once you're happy with your performance near the router (or know you need a new one), there are a couple

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