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(05/29/13 2:00am)
Sometimes I marvel at the sheer intensity of being at Dartmouth. The overwhelming exhilaration that comes from living, working and studying in a community of over 4000 people, all here with goals of learning and forming friendships. Yes, we are more different than alike, but there is something enduringly impressive about the shared energy coursing through this place. I remember noticing this energy when I came for DOC First-Year Trips, and that feeling of an intensely place-specific admiration for this school defined my first fall here. I felt giddy with the newness of Dartmouth. Everything seemed exciting and unknown, bursting with opportunity. I remember trying to pause every night at six when I heard the Baker Tower bells ring.
(05/15/13 2:00am)
Those of us who are graduating are firmly immersed in thesis presentation season. Friends across disciplines are presenting incredible examples of original work. The opportunity to see your friends excel and establish themselves in the academic community is an opportunity that many of us will never have again. Yet senior theses and fellowships are relatively rare at Dartmouth.
(04/17/13 2:00am)
I have had a lot of conversations this term about academic regret that nagging and pervasive feeling that you should have, could have, would have done your coursework at Dartmouth differently if you had known more. The thought that you could have had a different major, avoided that uninteresting introductory class, written (or not written) that thesis or taken more classes in other departments is widespread among students in their junior and senior years.
(04/03/13 2:00am)
If you are a Facebook user, you may have noticed a tide of likes and comments that surged forth with the recent launch of the "Lean In" campaign, a global community "dedicated to supporting women." How did you react? Did you click and read? Ignore? Feel compelled to act or frustrated?
(10/23/12 2:00am)
Everywhere you go on campus, you'll likely hear someone lament, "I'm stressed." "I've got a lot going on." "Sorry, I can't. I'm busy." "I'm not free I'm having a really rough term." We throw around these phrases with reckless abandon.
(10/16/12 2:00am)
During the time it took to write this column, I've finished two class readings, posted to a course blog, transferred some money between bank accounts, emailed a half dozen people, checked the weather (twice) and looked at some cool infographics depicting the presidential race. In short, I've done everything but write this article.
(10/02/12 2:00am)
When the Hopkins Center opened 50 years ago, it was at the cutting edge of the American conversation about art. Instead of making space for a single discipline say, visual arts or music architect Walter Harrison designed the Hopkins Center to be a collaborative working space where various art forms would coexist and where students from all corners of campus would come through the building to check their mailboxes.
(09/18/12 2:00am)
We're at that point in the year when sophomores begin nervously scurrying around campus in small groups. It's not corporate recruiting, but it's the only other time when we shed our fleece and flannel for nice clothes. It's rush. We've written about and discussed rush and the Greek system a lot in these pages and on this campus over the past year. And with good reason we're a school with a Greek system that just catapulted from well-known and oft-stereotyped to front-page national news for the worst possible reasons.
(05/30/12 2:00am)
As Spring term comes to an end, the discussion of summer jobs rises to the forefront of our conversations. For a school that is dominated by an attitude of academic nonchalance, summer jobs are surprisingly rife with connotations and labels. While our majors might not speak to our post-college ambitions or our academic success at Dartmouth, summer jobs, for better or worse, tell our classmates about our aspirations for the future.
(05/15/12 2:00am)
I have a fear of missing out. This fear isn't about missing out on a Friday night or a weekend with friends. Rather, it's about something larger and more concerning. I have a fear of committing to any decision that could cut down my options for the future, even if making a firm choice would provide me with new, unforeseen benefits. I stagnate when faced with decisions that force me to shut doors to majors, to summer jobs, to off-terms and to Foreign Study Programs. I waver on the precipice of indecision, literally flipping coins in an effort to take myself out of the equation, to remove the choice and put the decisions in the hand of some random arbiter.
(04/30/12 2:00am)
Each term at Dartmouth, we spend 10 hurried weeks skimming texts, flicking through flashcards and clicking our way through lecture slides. We memorize incessantly, filling our minds with facts that we have trouble remembering days after the exam, let alone the next term or year. During finals, we count down the days until summer or break, pushing through exams with the knowledge that, in just a few days, our work will be done. Our terms culminate in a blurry haze of half-packed boxes, quick goodbyes and futile attempts to sell back the books we just spent nights pouring over. We leave determined to put our classes behind us and get on with the next term.