We Are Afraid of Letting People Understand Us

Ryan Szantyr, a graduating senior from Poland, Maine, offers the advice he wishes he had heard as a first-gen student. A Government major and Cinema Studies minor, he weighs the uses and abuses of Yik Yak and reads students' aversion to vulnerability through Batman v Superman. Ryan meditates on failures of understanding on campus. He is Co-President of the Bowdoin Film Society.