An open letter to my 14-year-old sister
Dear Cherie,
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Dear Cherie,
As a freshman nearly four years ago, I used to walk past Tuck business school every day while leaving my dorm in the River cluster, and I can state with 99.9 percent confidence plus all of the benefit of hindsight that I never saw a single Tuck student in my entire year of walking past their campus. As a senior, I walk to Tuck every day for work, and I'm now pretty sure they exist (this year, at least). I'm also more curious than ever before about their existence: Who are they? What did they do before Tuck? In particular, what do Tuck students do for fun in Hanover, especially without the dull buzz of Greek life to keep themselves occupied?
Seeing as we are now eight weeks into Winter term, you've probably noticed the round of illness plaguing the men and women of Dartmouth. Slowly, student after student has fallen prey to the dreaded Hanover winter uniform. For ladies, that would be either tall boots with a scarf or post-gym clothes, depending on whichever is easier that day. For men, it's almost exclusively the latter, discounting the occasional tight-jeans choice.
So you've only gone to the River three times, and the Copper Mines zero. Where are your fun summer fling(s)? Summer has definitely turned out differently -- much differently -- than many of us thought it would. All around you, friends are living out their sophomore summers: random midnight drives to Montreal, pursuing the frat hookup quota, playing copious amounts of pong -- and getting significantly better than you -- running 17 miles a day, finally hanging out, being wild, and taking only two classes to enable all of this behavior. What about the rest of us?
'10 Sigma Delt We just got back from [house on Wheelock Street] where we were like sexually assaulted.
Finally! The hundreds of hours I spent watching "Design at Nine" and "Trading Spaces" are justified in the form of a column in the Mirror. Anyway, here are some jewels of advice to guide you in pimping out your sick sophomore summer room, making it more elegant and livable, whether you live on or off-campus. Ideas are partially culled from my own room and knowledge is courtesy of Home and Garden Television, The Learning Channel, and MTV Cribs.
'10 Tridelt (while painting a pong paddle): Boys think we're really cute for doing this.
What was your childhood like?
Wait so this interview is for The Mirror? Is that in the paper?
Author of three senior theses, Rhodes Scholar and steady boyfriend of five years, Adam Levine '08 is someone who knows what it takes to make a pipe dream come true.
Tell me about your off-term.
Monica Martin de Bustamante '08 and Annie Stanley '08 finished their last season with the varsity women's soccer team earlier this year. Now they're looking for new outlets for their competitive spirit -- enter the Class of 2008 pong tournament, no boys allowed of course. How did you come up with this '08 pong tournament idea?Monica: We were playing pong in KDE basement and just kind of throwing out ideas of what would be fun to do with the Class of 2008 girls Spring term and then thought of this. We talked to a lot of '08 KDEs, and everyone seemed really excited about it, but no one wanted to organize it. More than anything else it was just that someone needed to plan it. Annie: We were originally going to find some sort of committee to arrange or fund it but then figured we'd just do it ourselves. M: It's kind of like reliving your sophomore summer.A: Except this tourney is not house-related.M: Because throughout four years, you finally meet people that are not in your house or on your team and the Masters tournament is completely affiliated. A: So you just have to be an '08 girl to play in this tourney.How did you start organizing it?M: Well, we Blitzed out and we got a really good response -- about 80, 81 teams, so 162 girls.A: It's a pretty good showing. M: The opponents are all done randomly. We found a number randomizer on the Internet and used it to put everyone on the bracket.A: There are a lot of girls. We don't even know most of the people.What round are you up to?M: Right now we're on the second round and the tourney goes throughout the entire term. You have two weeks to play the game with your opponents and you decide if you play a game of one tree or best out of three with shrub. A: And the final fifth, sixth and seventh rounds are going to be played Senior Week on a random day. M: Someone who lost is actually trying to get the GDX pit for that day! She said she still wants to be really involved.A: We just update the bracket.Are you guys competing too?M: Yes! We will be playing next week. Hopefully Tuesday. Are there prizes?M: We're probably going to make some T-shirts at the end.A: We don't know about prizes yet.M: But definitely something for the winners.A: Bragging rights.Are you guys doing this because you're not taking classes senior spring or something? M: No. I'm taking two engineering and one Italian class, both major classes. A: Well, I'm only taking two classes.M: I couldn't fit a B.E. in engineering in four years with soccer and another major so I'm doing it in five.Will you live on campus next year?M: Well, wonderful ORL decided that fifth-year engineering students can't live in campus housing. For the B.E., you're an undergrad still but the College doesn't recognize you anymore as a student so they leave you to fend for yourself.But you're still going to hang out?M: I should say 'No, I'm going to try to be a real student,' but I'll probably hang out.Do people bring up the tournament with you guys all the time?M: It generally comes up, or people Blitz us to tell us their issues and ask like what they should do. Annie and I talk about it whenever we get the results.A: But Monica sends out all the Blitzes --M: So most people send their questions to me.People are taking this so seriously?M: Yeah, we have deadlines for each round and sometimes people Blitz us for extensions. General thoughts about pong? I've just started playing this year.M: Really? I feel like I've liked the game since my recruiting trip.A: Yeah, we always played since we had older people that were in sororities, so it was easier to get into [pong] because they taught us how to play. It's also competitive, so -- M: This is our new sport.A: Or we pretend it is.M: Coach is not going to like that. A: Well, maybe she doesn't read this far in The D.
Tell me about your jewelry collection that's on display now.
It's time we accept that the Alumni Gym serves as yet another forum for our school's burgeoning obsession with facetime. As a recent gym convert, I have just accepted it myself. I hardly went to the gym last year, not counting the three days during the dead of winter when my fitter floormates convinced me to -- no joke -- take the Advance Transit to the gym at 7 a.m. before my 10A. Aside from this spate of insanity, I avoided the gym because I lived in the River and was planning on being an Econ major (obvi). I regret it now, though. My naive little freshman head (and freshman waist, hips, thighs) had no idea what I was missing -- or what my body would be gaining.
So you're a tour guide?
Joe Braunreuther III '08
Growing up in Korea, Phil Chang '08 had a passion for hip-hop, making contacts with industry movers and shakers at a young age over e-mail. At Dartmouth, he still energetic, ambitious and all about the music.
Taylor Campbell '11, President of MEaD
This week, the spotlight's on Julissa Llosa '10, this year's director for the always sold-out student performances of The Vagina Monologues. She's also Programming Intern for the Center for Women & Gender. Warning: We aren't using "vajayjay" or any other wacky terms; it's called a vagina, 50% of the population has one, get over it.
Sydney Kim '07, a studio art major and English minor, is currently a studio art teacher's assistant at Dartmouth.