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(06/27/14 12:09am)
Some children dream of being physicists, and some children dream of being artists, but growing up to be a physicist, pursuing a Ph.D. in quantum electronics and then deciding to create art is arguably a rare path. For Enrique Martínez Celaya, July’s featured artist at the Hood Museum of Art and a Montgomery Fellow at the College, lasers have been as much a part of his work as painting and sculpture.
(02/28/14 1:51am)
What would your mother do if she could see you like this? Sitting there, hunched over a computer, eyes glazed over, one hand elbow-deep in a jumbo bag of Doritos, scrolling through Facebook like a lazy baboon in a Dartmouth shirt? I often wonder this on Sundays, as I half-heartedly flip through poetry anthologies in hopes of finding a decipherable Plath poem to prove I accomplished some work that weekend. If the average human spends one third of life asleep, how much of our lives do we spend on Facebook, Pinterest and even blitz?
(01/31/14 1:30am)
When imagining a theater professor, I would not immediately think of Peter Hackett. Instead, I picture a man in a black turtleneck and beret, someone who sports the sort of mustache that belongs in an 18th century portrait and drops French words into every conversation. Or perhaps a tall, brooding woman with the stature of a stately praying mantis and a collection of wool cloaks that would put the whole cast of Harry Potter to shame. At the very least, I’d expect the professor to be wearing a monocle, a feather boa or some sort of dramatic accessory.
(01/24/14 1:17am)
Over winter break, I spent a few days playing hot potato at the homes of my New England-dwelling friends. Each house and family was different — Shih Tzu puppy versus ornery cat greeting me at the door, scrumptious Indian food versus decadent blueberry muffins made from scratch — but toward the end of the week, I began to realize it wasn’t so much that these families were all different, but that none of them were normal by my standards.
(10/31/13 10:17pm)
There was a time when dressing up as a rabbit was the highlight of your year. You heard the final click of the sewing machine, put down your Pokemon cards, took your eyes off of PBS Kids and stared in awe at the fluffy white suit in your mother’s hands. You wore it for weeks in anticipation. You begged to wear it to school and were denied. When the big night finally came you cringed as your mother pinned your white tail to your fluffy rump, fearing it might poke into your real skin. Once your three whiskers, drawn with mom’s best eyeliner, were finished and your pink lipstick nose was applied, you were ready to hop down the bunny trail. Your sister, mummified with toilet paper, stood next to you for the picture. She then took your small hand in hers and led you to the first house because she’d done this before. As you toddled to keep up with her, your pumpkin-shaped candy bucket bobbed against your leg like a merry ghost. From the porch your mother watched you go, waving but not worrying. She knew you’d come back eventually.
(10/31/13 10:13pm)
We got off to a rocky start. Before even getting to our destination, the gas light was on, our phones had no service and we’d pulled several u-turns. Returning to Hanover without leaving the car crossed our minds. But, just as our last bit of positive energy almost dissipated, we stumbled upon the Great Vermont Corn Maze. We arrived just in time, and it was well worth the journey.
(09/27/13 2:00am)
But somehow this doesn't seem right. You came to Dartmouth to make friends, after all. You told people you'd be hiking trails to get to class. You vowed to see the stars! Tonight, tuck your laptop into its case and hop in a car because you, friend, are going to see a movie the right way.
(08/14/13 2:00am)
The first floor of Baker-Berry Library is the place for you! Berry 1, as it is fondly called, is the perfect place to be "facetimey," or in other words, see all your friends. Not to worry, you still get credit for being at the library. Shoot the breeze with your best buds or spend some time on Facebook, just make sure to turn a page in your bio textbook every half hour or so. While it can be difficult to get much work done on Berry 1, the access to food, printers, bathrooms and friends makes it hard to avoid during exam time. Just call it your guilty pleasure.
(04/26/13 2:00am)
It's no secret that students gravitate toward KAF like moths to a flame, or, during exam week, like zombies to brains. Blame it on the convenient location and seductive cursive lettered signs. We're hooked. The Dartmouth-KAF connection, however, is more than just the inseparable bond between students and iced coffee.
(04/12/13 2:00am)
Now that you're at Dartmouth, you probably aren't pounded over the head with villanelles anymore. No one forces you to observe the sanctity of National Poetry Month. This news comes as a relief to many. But, for those who revere the written word, the divide between those who roll their eyes at poetry and those who keep it by their bedside is concerning.
(03/08/13 4:00am)
Heading into spring I am cautious to start setting my expectations because, knowing me, they will most likely be a bit outlandish. For example, I am tempted to imagine campus as a picture-perfect copy of the sunny Elysium that it appears to be in admissions brochures, filled with couples sharing picnics on the Green and happy students biking into the sunset with the silhouette of Baker Tower at their backs. I envision the term flying by like a montage in a romantic comedy in which imagined spring daffodils pop up beside every sidewalk, there is always great live music and for some reason a golden retriever follows me wherever I go. See, things are already starting to get unrealistic. There's no way daffodils would ever grow in New Hampshire.
(02/22/13 4:00am)
Who puts the "dart" in Dartmouth? Why none other than our very own Track and Field team! While most of us are making a beeline for the nearest calorie-laden delicacy at the FoCo dessert counter, these fine folks are lacing up for a nice four-to-12-mile run.
(02/01/13 4:00am)
All the lonely people where do they all come from? Winter term at Dartmouth of course! While Princetonians and UPenners are linking arms and singing kumbaya at the sight of each other for the first time since winter break, many Dartmouth students have no one to embrace but the nearest snowman.
(01/25/13 4:00am)
What do flying squirrels, opossums and Dartmouth students have in common? If you answered beady eyes and claws, you are sadly mistaken. We may not be rodents, but much like these furry fiends, we are nocturnal. Take a walk through First-Floor Berry on a Monday morning and you'll no doubt overhear people bragging about how little sleep they got as if they were boasting about their latest Pulitzer. Lack of sleep is something of a badge of honor in the Dartmouth community, a fate both endured with tenacity and complained about for what seems like eternity.
(01/18/13 4:00am)
To say you were gifted as a child would be an understatement. You were more than gifted. You were inspired. While other kids curled up with copies of the "Magic Tree House "series, you studied SAT prep books. You subsequently judged said peers for their fascination with the nave, historically sketchy volumes and spent your lunch periods in solitude with only SOHCAHTOA to keep you company.
(01/11/13 4:00am)
You are cordially invitedTo Party Like it's 2013
(11/09/12 4:00am)
Ah, freshman fall. Oh, to be that young and naive! Now that I am nearly finished with the first term of my college experience, I feel I can finally look back on these long gone months with nostalgia and clarity. Much like Yoda, I have attained a kind of wisdom that only comes with age and good looks. True, it's only been nine weeks, but I think I am at least a little older and wiser.
(10/26/12 2:00am)
Lace up your Nikes, stretch those quads and get ready, because it's almost time for the bonfire bolt. That's right, after weeks of carbo-loading for the 116-lap marathon around the inferno, the freshman class is finally ready to hit the Green. Aside from "training" in anticipation of this epic weekend, freshman halls have planned bonding activities to pump up the Homecoming fun.
(10/12/12 2:00am)
Perhaps you are the "problem child," the one who, as a kid, cried at every holiday and constantly broke prized family heirlooms. Maybe you are the middle child who everyone forgets about or the sister that isn't quite as pretty. Whatever your background may be, chances are you fit into some type of category like those listed above when it comes to your family. While each of us is an individual, at home, people constantly compare us to those in our families, especially our siblings. Without siblings, there would be no youngest, no smartest, no favorite. We would simply be, well, us. Fortunately, there is a magical place where this constant sibling comparison simply disappears. It's called college. On day one, you are not the shorter one, the one who looks like your dad or the most sensitive you are just a kid who was smart enough to get into Dartmouth.
(10/05/12 2:00am)
Pollen, pet dander and peanuts all are common allergies in this day and age. Find yourself a squeamish four-year-old, and chances are the kid has all three. Shellfish and gluten are a bit more exotic, as any faithful hypochondriac would tell you, but there is one allergen more lethal than the rest, far less detectable and for which there is no EpiPen: the River residential cluster.