Spotlight: Alex Schindler '10
Editor's Note: While we jeered at freshmen circling the bonfire, Alex Schindler '10 was sweating it in Cairo.
Editor's Note: While we jeered at freshmen circling the bonfire, Alex Schindler '10 was sweating it in Cairo.
Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff New Year's Resolutions: everybody has them, most people enjoy breaking them.
New Year's is overrated. Don't get me wrong, I love any excuse for champagne, sequins and celebratory kisses, but New Year's remains far from my favorite holiday.
Writing an article in favor of New Year's resolutions seemed hypocritical to me, because after wracking my brain, I cannot think of a single resolution I have ever kept.
Editor's Note: This term, The Mirror will feature select staffers' thoughts on life abroad, everything from the day-to-day to how their experiences overseas affect their perspectives on life at home and at Dartmouth. I'm embarrassed to say this, but I arrived in Toulouse, France on the LSA+ expecting to be inundated with a different species of human -- the French -- that constantly smokes, drinks wine and feeds me baguettes for lunch.
Editor's Note: Each week, Amy examines a small group of students in order to understand the individual Dartmouth experience as part of a whole.
"Here it comes the party of a lifetime/31st of December/Man I remember when the ball dropped for '90/Now it's 9-9/ten years behind me" -- Will Smith, "Will 2K" Time sure does fly by when Will Smith stops making music ... I don't really remember when the ball dropped for '90; I was two, and still couldn't walk, but I did know cursive.
Looking for a fresh way to celebrate the New Year in style? Ditch the same, old boring goals -- lose weight, spend less, exercise, eat healthy, get more sleep -- (you know you'll forget them by the end of the month, anyway) and make some fashion resolutions instead!
We hate New Year's Resolutions. We always make them, and then we break them, and then we just feel bad about ourselves when late December rolls around and we look back on another failed year.
By Rembert Browne This could be the end of the road for me. I'm a free agent in a month or so, and who knows if the '10s who start running The Dartmouth, America's Oldest College Newspaper, in January will renew my contract.
SAE Pledge: It's not a beer belly, it's a fuel tank for a sex machine. Chi Gam Pledge [to AD pledges]: Do you guys sleep with your dogs? AD Pledge: Uhh, I dunno. Chi Gam Pledge: Well you should -- they're adorable. Muslim 1: Where the heck are we gonna find a halal turkey? Muslim 2: We can fashion a turkey out of halal chicken nuggets! '10 Girl [passing Alpha Phi's bake sale]: Why aren't they selling pudding? '11 Girl 1: How did TriKap formal go? '11 Girl 2: Well I ended up at PhiDelt, so pretty well, I guess. '12 Girl: I feel like every time after a Heorot dance party, I don't want to wash my clothes, I want to burn them! Twin 1 [in Homeplate]: Tofu burritos? Twin 2: That goes against the fundamental nature of burritos! Twin 1: No Mexican eats tofu! '11 Guy: I had one thing that was good and pure in my life, and that was the pumpkin cheesecake ice cream! '12 Girl: Yeah, I haven't thrown up since I got here.
"Life means nothing without flair," Caroline Cima '10 proclaims. As a member of the rugby team and Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority, Caroline is always eager for flair-wear occasions.
Although my job might seem fairly easy, it actually requires a great deal of creative thought and planning.
I recently made a mistake while changing channels; somewhere between "Who Wants to Date my Grandmother?" and "True Life: I'm on MTV's True Life" -- I stumbled upon a Fox News briefing.
While attempting to define the word "flair," I found that Urban Dictionary is plagued with references to the cult classic "Office Space"(1999), which, according to many internet sources, first introduced the phrase "flair" into mainstream culture.
If you had told me three years ago that by senior fall I'd sit poised to write an article defaming flair, I would have screamed blasphemy.
By Eve Ahearn "Unlatching a trunk, the 21-year-old freshman revealed bolts of colorful fabric that he said he planned to use for theatrical productions -- an utterly bizarre notion, at this rugged school intended to train missionaries.
Jennifer Argote / The Dartmouth Senior Staff "Hello?
This is the last Mirror under my watchful eye, and what better topic to cover with my last little soapbox than the one I'm most passionate about -- flair (see below). It's been fun, Dartmouth.
'11 Kappa: I saw some drunk idiot AD boy falling down the stairs last night only wearing a thong.