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For international students like me, the Cambridge Dictionary isn’t just helpful for essay writing. It’s also a survival tool during dining-hall conversations and the occasional lost-in-translation group chat. Sure, it can help polish grammar and untangle obscure terms in class readings. But dig a little deeper and you’ll find something else entirely: words straight from the internet, slang that feels miles away from anything academic and is surprisingly similar to what your younger siblings are probably texting right now.
The end of every term at Dartmouth feels like a reckoning. Finals bring chaos: panicked cramming, desperate office hours, the startling Vox Daily notification reminding you that you’ve overstayed your welcome on 3FB and should really go to bed. The quick pace of these weeks always sparks big questions for me: What am I doing? Will I pass my classes? What do I even want from my life? The finale of sophomore summer, of this momentous chapter of Dartmouth life, only intensifies those feelings. With half my college experience behind me, the pressure to feel certain about who I am, what I want, where I’m going presses heavier on my chest, my lungs, my arms. I’m pinned to the ground. I’ve never been especially religious, but studying for my organic chemistry final has me sending up prayers.
A memory: My roommate and I collapse into our seats across from each other at the dining table of our apartment in Prague — home for the next 10 weeks. Between us are bowls of couscous, roast chicken thighs, grilled eggplant and roasted carrots. As we begin to eat, our conversation drifts from excitement about being abroad, to weird cake ideas, to concerns about pigeons in the apartment. Warm sunset light bathes our meal. Like my study-abroad friends often said, this must be the point.
Today, President Donald Trump and President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin will meet in Alaska to discuss a possible end to the war in Ukraine. Students of history may find the circumstance disquietingly similar to an event 87 years ago, but I am shocked by how few people seem to be talking about it.
On July 30, distinguished fellow Ezzedine Fishere published an opinion article in The Washington Post entitled “This country should take over Gaza — for now,” in which he argued that the Egyptian government should become a temporary steward of Gaza to dismantle the threat to Israel and to establish a path towards a Palestinian state. Before becoming a professor at Dartmouth, Fishere served as a diplomat for Egypt and the United Nations.
Long before she became President Donald Trump’s choice for United States assistant attorney general for the civil rights division, Harmeet Dhillon ’89 was a classical studies major and the editor-in-chief of The Dartmouth Review. Today, Dhillon is a Trump loyalist, the first Republican woman to hold her position within the Department of Justice and a key figure in the Trump administration’s campaign to freeze federal funding for universities on the alleged basis that they have inadequately addressed campus antisemitism.
In a new study, a group of archaeologists led by anthropology professor Madeleine McLeester found that from A.D. 1000 to 1600, farming was extensive among Native American communities at the Sixty Islands site in Wisconsin, complicating widely held notions in current archaeological theory. At Sixty Islands — which is the largest preserved ancestral native American cornfield in North America — McLeester and her team examined soil-building techniques, ridge maintenance and connections with nearby villages. McLeester spoke to The Dartmouth about her career and her ground-breaking study, which has garnered national attention in the New York Times.
Dearest fine readers of Mirror,
There’s nothing quite like starting your afternoon by getting thrown across a mat. Welcome to ASCL 61.10: Japanese Martial Arts, a course I’m taking this summer that meets twice a week in the classroom and twice on the mat — yet lingers in my muscles all week long.
If you asked me what I was scared of on a normal day, I would say that I have a terrible fear of falling. If you asked me what I’m scared of while I’m holding onto a rope swing and soaring over a lake, however, I would say that I love that feeling of weightlessness that courses through me as I plunge into the cold water.
Last week, at the World Rowing Under 23 Championships in Poznan, Poland, Dartmouth rowers Cosmo Hondrogen ’28 and Áine Ley ’26 earned silver medals for the United States in the lightweight men’s single sculls and women’s eight, respectively.
“Call it a combination of keen attention and ‘a profound indifference’ (to borrow Camus’s words) or a combination of intense emotion and an equally intense apathy. The fact is, there is no word for this state I’ve found myself in, in which lucidity and opacity are one and the same.”
Dear FOTW,
The American Football Coaches Association named Chris Corbo ’26 and Owen Zalc ’27 preseason All-Americans. Corbo was named to the first team and Zalc was named to the second team. Both were named All-Ivy athletes last season, naming them some of the best football players in the Ivy-League.
On July 6, more than 80 people gathered on the front porch of the Collis Center for Student Involvement to honor the first anniversary of the death of Won Jang ’26. Jang drowned in the Connecticut River last summer.
Last month, the Black Alumni of Dartmouth Association sent out an email to its mailing list of about 4,000 members disputing the College’s campus-wide email account of a May 28 sit-in at Parkhurst Hall. BADA raised a broader concern about a “steady erosion of trust within the Dartmouth community” and a “failure by the administration and trustees to engage in true community building.”