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Brian Durkin ’13

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Bowdoin chapter.

Name: Brian Durkin

Year: Class of 2013

Hometown: Manchester, Massachusetts 

Major: Government and Spanish

Relationship Status: “No status” (whatever that means)

Fun Fact: “I have two yellow labs. I enjoy the beach, playing the guitar, being extreme, and eating steak. My roommate is a Tribal Warrior.”

Celebrity Crush: JoJo

Perfect Girl: “Has hair down to her legs, and legs down to the floor… and likes to have fun.”

Pet Peeves: “People who pronounce the ‘t’ in ‘often,’ stop signs, and infomercials.” 

Joanna Buffum is a senior English major and Anthropology minor at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.  She is from Morristown, NJ and in the summer of 2009 she was an advertising intern for OK! Magazine and the editorial blog intern for Zagat Survey in New York City. This past summer she was an editorial intern for MTV World's music website called MTV Iggy, writing fun things like album and concert reviews for bands you have never heard of before. Her favorite books are basically anything involving fantasy fiction, especially the Harry Potter series and “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell” by Susanna Clarke. In her free time she enjoys snowboarding, playing intramural field hockey, watching House MD, and making paninis. In the spring of 2010 she studied abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark, and she misses the friendly, tall, and unusually attractive Danish people more than she can say. After college, she plans on pursuing a career in writing, but it can be anywhere from television script writing, to magazine journalism, to book publishing.