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(11/10/13 9:46pm)
On Climate Awareness Day in 2009, former College President Jim Yong Kim announced that his expectations for Dartmouth were nothing shy of being the “greenest college in the world” — ironically overlooking the smoke stacks of exhausted Number 6 fuels leaving the heating plant of south campus when he made this statement from his office in Parkhurst Hall. Nobody believed that accomplishing his goal would be an easy feat. In fact, it seemed like there were significantly more student and faculty skeptics than supporters as to whether this vernacular would ever be materialized. Would “going green” really have higher monetary returns than the hundreds of millions of dollars Dartmouth entrusts to hedge funds and investment bankers on Wall Street? Probably not. But with the quick creation of the Dartmouth Sustainability Project, the installment of dual-flush toilets around campus (at the time, only Harvard University had these systems installed in the Ivy League) and the partnering of Dartmouth College and Camelback to afford students reusable water bottles and places to refill them on campus, perhaps Kim was serious. And then he left for the World Bank.
(10/14/13 2:00am)
Sometimes, I feel as if I am just going through the motions. So much of my Dartmouth experience has been about next steps deciding on how many majors to pursue, what graduate school to attend and so on. In many ways, as I look back on my time at Dartmouth to date, I feel like I have missed two years of my life.
(08/13/13 2:00am)
"I really don't think I study enough," one of my closest friends here told me one late evening in the library. "You only get four years and we're almost halfway there."
(08/02/13 2:00am)
The first time I came to visit Dartmouth, I asked my tour guide what defined the "Dartmouth undergraduate experience" so highly spoken about in US News and World Report. Without hesitation she answered, "sophomore summer!" Yet two months into my own sophomore summer, I find myself lacking the same excitement as my first tour guide. Why? Dartmouth has missed the opportunity to make sophomore summer a "defining experience" and has instead allowed it to be just another academic term.
(05/10/13 2:00am)
It is no secret that Dartmouth's advising system lags far behind some of its peer institutions'. By the first week of my freshman year, it was clear to me that I would have to navigate the College's academic maze on my own. While I was anxious to take complete control over my education as an ambitious freshman, looking back I see how much I missed because I did not have anyone familiar with the landscape to direct me.
(04/09/13 2:00am)
The first of April is the time of year when the admissions office makes its final decisions on the incoming class, as well as the time when Dartmouth's athletic teams can, for the most part, finalize their rosters for the upcoming season. It is no secret that admissions and the athletic department have a rather strong relationship at Dartmouth and in the rest of the Ivy League.
(03/08/13 4:00am)
My social media accounts have begun to pick up on an interesting trend. I see tweets along the lines of, "Today Student X said such and such," Instagram photos depicting a ridiculous answer to a test question and Facebook posts flooded with comments on how weird it is to be called by your last name. These posts force me to take a step back and think, "Wait, did Student X give you the permission to make that public?"
(02/21/13 4:00am)
Born without fibulas, his legs were amputated below the knee when he was only 11 months old. By age 17, he had the world record in the T44 (reduced function in lower limbs) 100-meter dash. In his first able-bodied race, he finished sixth. In 2008, he overcame the International Association of Athletics Federations' decision to ban him from able-bodied competition and qualified for the London Olympics in 2012. He advanced to the semifinal of the 400-meter race and competed for South Africa on the 4x400-meter relay in the final as the first amputee runner in the Olympics. From experiencing a Nelson Mandela-like appeal to international disgrace, Oscar Pistorius awaits his fate in a South African courtroom. Whether he is proven guilty for the murder of his girlfriend, 29-year-old Reeva Steenkamp, Pistorius's iconic stardom is over. With steroids uncovered throughout his home, Pistorius has fallen from grace.
(02/12/13 4:00am)
I was talking to one of my good friends from the University of California, Berkeley the other day about a term that she decided to take off in the middle of her junior year. Spending that time living in Turkey, Jordan and Palestine, she was able to meet up with a number of people she had met at Berkeley prior to traveling along the way taking Turkish classes with two Berkeley students in Istanbul, touring the Dome of the Rock and Haram al-Sharif with another in Jerusalem and grabbing a cup of coffee with three of them in Amman. I can't say I could do the same as a Dartmouth College student.
(01/28/13 4:00am)
I was only made aware this week that a task force known as the Bias Incident Response Team existed at Dartmouth. According to its website, the response team is committed to advancing the "Principles of Community." It serves as both an investigator and support network after reported incidents of bias. Now that this task force has come to my attention, I have to report an incident of bias that happens year after year, unreported. Since the response team's report form asks me to describe the offender first, I will do that now: the Dartmouth admissions application.