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One thing I do know, however, is that whether I end up trying to land a job as a taxi driver in New York or a job on Wall Street, when I finally get around to planning my off term next summer , I don't want to lose any opportunity because of some silly Facebook picture or mindlessly crafted tweet. I would like to abuse this chance and send a note to potential future employers the most promising of which at the moment seems to be the NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission when this pops up on a Google search of my name: such things of me on the Internet have never existed nor will they ever, I promise!
So what's the key to finding that happiness? Keep your expectations low, your flexibility high and listen up. This is the list of everything you should be doing (as in, now) and how to make it happen.
The dinosaurs became extinct because a giant asteroid hit the earth, right? Not so fast earth sciences professor Jason Moore says that the object that hit the earth 65 million years ago was more likely a smaller, speedier comet. Moore worked with a team at Dartmouth to find significant evidence against the seemingly fundamental asteroid hypothesis, one we have accepted since we first learned that dinosaurs existed and then realized they were no longer walking around outside.
The War and Peace Studies Fellows program, run by the Dickey Center for International Understanding, is designed to get students talking about exactly that, both with each other and with internationally-renowned experts on topics ranging from national security and foreign policy to human trafficking and more.
You have an important blitz to send. You write the blitz; it takes you 10 minutes. You look at the time. You save the blitz as a draft to send it later. You wait a little while. You decide it's still too early to send the blitz. Or is it? You decide it's not worth worrying and you should just send it now and get it over with, only to realize that you send it out right as the listserv is bombing our inboxes and that there's a 75 percent chance your blitz will be deleted en masse by its recipients.
It's so cold! I can't believe it's already dark outside! I can't wait for the summer! You're not even a paragraph in here and you're probably already bored because you've heard exactly that countless times today. Probably without the exclamation points. We get it, random person standing in line at Collis, winter just sucks sometimes. Maybe it'd be better if we stopped talking about how awful everything is and started bringing up how beautiful it is. It's nice to think that for every person who says the cold sucks, there might be another who says "Yay fresh powder, time to hit the slopes!" Being able to enjoy the snow (or ice!) is what makes winter at Dartmouth awesome. "I'm a winter person," Chuxi Zhang '16 said. "I teach snowboarding. Part of the reason I wanted to come here was because of the Skiway."For every person who complains about the cold, someone else came here because of it. They might even be the same person.Because if we're honest with ourselves, we don't really have that much "time" to hit the slopes. We're more likely to be stuck in the library, hitting the books instead of the slopes as we watch the daylight fade to dark before it's even actually nighttime. Across campus, the cold, dark abyss that is a Hanover winter is enough to have an effect on just about everyone."I just feel like people do fewer things," Michael Zhu '14 said. "Once you go someplace you don't leave, so campus is less active."Not wanting to leave the library and face the cold isn't always a bad thing for your GPA, and potentially your social life. Unfortunately, shorter days may also have the more detrimental affect of making people SAD an appropriate acronym for seasonal affective disorder.You've probably read about SAD in an email from your dean, or from some poster around campus or maybe not. But in case you were wondering or even if you weren't it helps to know what SAD looks like so you can help yourself, or your friends. Because as fun as it is to play with the acronym, it's not fun to be SAD. Know that the disorder is real, and listen up."Before coming to Dartmouth, I thought it was some kind of made up disorder something that people used as a scapegoat for the winter blues," Lindsay Newton '15, a member of Active Minds, said. "After hearing an Active Minds panel last year, I realized that it is a real affliction. Unfortunately, people stick their noses up at it because the acronym almost makes it seem like a joke." According to the one and only Web MD, SAD is a type of depression that occurs in the fall and winter months, when the days get shorter. It's most likely caused by a lack of sunlight, and it's certain that it's more than just the winter blues."Having a depressed mood is the number one sign," Da-Shih Hu, a psychiatrist at Dick's House, said. "In contrast to other kinds of depression, SAD is associated with an increased desire for carbohydrates and classic symptoms of depression include low energy levels, decreased concentration and decreased motivation."Hu said that the onset of SAD usually occurs in the fall, when the days begin to get shorter. But that doesn't mean it's too late to get help.As detrimental as SAD can be, it's unfortunately rare for Dartmouth students to talk about the way the winter might be affecting their mood beyond a common, shallow "It's cold!""People here are very much overachievers and we tend to ignore the psychological affects of stress," Gabrielle Forestier '14, president of Active Minds, said. One of the best things we can do for each other might just be to talk about how we're feeling."Active Minds is in part about letting people know that there are options for them to talk to professionals at Dick's House," Forestier said. "If it's simple day-to-day issues, those are great things to talk about, and it prevents you from getting to a place where you have a huge weight to carry. It's okay to talk about things, even if it's not a direct conversation about those problems." If you do need help, there are resources available for every student. Dick's House offers counseling services and lends out light therapy lamps, and if you want a boost in the library, the Dean's Office has a happy lamp outside its office that you can sit under whenever, provided someone else hasn't already snagged the spot.Of course, there are other ways to experience winter here that involve more than just misery even for people like Forestier who come from warmer climates like Miami."Getting outside during daylight hours can be helpful to maximize the light that we do have," she said. "Other things like going skating and sledding can be fun and interesting and help you adjust to the winter and to enjoy it."
If Dartmouth was a person dressing to show off its best feature, that feature would be its academic flexibility. One of the first things you hear about on an admissions tour is the D-plan, and it only goes on from there. Create your own major! Write a senior honors thesis! And more! The possibilities seem endless, and Dartmouth seems awesome.
The Year of the Arts, the Black Family Visual Arts Center, Sarner Underground: they're all new developments on campus. That's a fact. These new campus spots all illustrate Dartmouth's recent efforts to celebrate the arts on campus, whether in theater, film, studio art or music. That's an inference. The question, however, is whether these new spaces have had an impact on student life by further integrating the arts on campus and increasing student participation.
Well, Dartmouth, now that we've survived the apocalypse, we've realized that everything we thought we knew about the future was wrong. Once upon a time we thought that those who warned of the apocalypse were crazy; we, on the other hand, were too smart for such foolishness. But then Dec. 21 happened.
1779-1815: John Wheelock-The son of Eleazar, John turned down an offer of admission from Yale University to become one of the first four students to graduate in 1771.-Always at the cutting edge of academic style, Wheelock helped found the fourth medical school in the nation under Dr. Nathan Smith in 1797.-Although he tried to keep Dartmouth's best interests in mind, Wheelock stirred controversy when he tried to convince the governor of New Hampshire to turn Dartmouth into state-controlled Dartmouth University, and was expelled by the Board of Trustees in 1815.
Most of you had no idea, although some of you got pretty close when you called it "a journal reflecting upon things" and "a newspaper". You're right, we should be a newspaper in ourselves because we're that awesome, and good for you for realizing that calling it "The Mirror" hints on some sort of reflection it may or may not have taken us three terms to figure that one out. But also, why are you answering this survey if you don't even know where your information is going? Whatever, we're happy that this campus is so trusting. Or maybe you saw the survey and were just dying to know the answers to these mysterious questions. Either way, we're happy you could bear with us.
For many Dartmouth students, the word "all-nighter" immediately ups their adrenaline and increases their heart rate, bringing back strung-out, caffeinated memories. Others can only imagine what it would be like to be deprived of sleep for an entire night, panic and hit the books. For the lucky ones, the word only brings up fond memories of shenanigans with their friends. Our parents, professors and The Stall Street Journal constantly remind us that cramming is the least effective way to study, that we need a good night's sleep before an exam to perform our best. But there are those who swear by using all-nighters to study.
We often talk about Dartmouth's tight-knit community, and yet this same community can seem overwhelmingly large at times. For every friend that we run into eight times in a day, there's also that cool person we want to get to know better but don't end up seeing again for a month.
I'm terrified of contact sports. And I mean any kind of contact, human or otherwise. When my friends played soccer, I would never want to actually touch a soccer ball even with my foot so I'd choose to be the goalie instead. Then, when I actually had to block a goal, I closed my eyes and ducked.
Trips are ingrained into Dartmouth culture more so than most activities or traditions on this campus. Even the majority of people who don't have perfect experiences enjoy them they provide an opportunity to break down boundaries so that students can let loose before settling on campus. A love of Trips is not only important to assimilating into Dartmouth culture it is also a means of providing a common ground for all students of the College, past and present.
Young people who play team sports and avoid watching movies featuring smoking are less likely to try tobacco, according to a recent study conducted by the Norris Cotton Cancer Center. The study, published in British Medicine Open on Sept. 12, found individual risk factors to be far more influential in preventing youth smoking than community-based factors such as the accessibility of tobacco outlets.
More students have the opportunity to actually go home for Thanksgiving and stay there through the holiday season, spending these days the way they were meant to be spent: with family and friends. For the environmental types, this also means fewer carbon emissions from travels. Yay! For everyone else, it means that you can spend the money you would have spent on that extra plane ticket on a shopping spree at the new J. Crew store. Unless you're a guy, in which case you likely will not be filling your closet with colorful cardigans.
This week is supposed to be fun on paper, but it might seem long and exhausting. You probably have a lot of questions. Are mandatory events actually mandatory? Do I rest up for classes or start schmoozing with profs? The Mirror presents to you your (un)official guide to Orientation Week activities. You're welcome.
Although New Hampshire residents express greater support for same-sex marriage than the rest of the nation, U.S. President Barack Obama's public support of same-sex marriage is unlikely to affect general election results in the state, according to a number of experts and New Hampshire politicians.