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December 19, 2025 | Latest Issue
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Today I am annoyed by... "Haters"

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America's poet laureate Hilary Duff (Sept. 28, 1987 " Dec. 25, 2011) once said in her magnum opus, "Haters": "Haters/ Traitors to the human race/ Haters/ What a drag, what a waste/ I'd like to see them disappear/ They don't belong anywhere/ Haters, haters" Never have words rung so true.




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The Granite in our Brains

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Sometimes the pressure to be perfect is too much, and we crack. Not in a "Cuckoo's Nest" way, but more of in a drink a case, boot on the floor, hose the bed kind of way.. Jean Ellen explores how Dartmouth students perfect the art of being imperfect. Upon hearing "compulsive perfectionism," two thoughts crossed my mind: 1.





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The Mirror Asks: When are you most neurotic?

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"I have 32 folders set up in Blitz that I actively use to filter my e-mail." -- Luofei Deng '10 "Open doors -- I cannot begin to focus on anything if some door near me is left ajar." -- Katherine Gorman '08 "Mine is, embarrassingly, footnotes in papers." -- Jean Luo '10 "Actually I think that my most obsessive-compulsive trait is checking Blitz and Facebook." -- Esther Ha '11 "I can't touch public door knobs!


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Hello Dartmouth!

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This week The Mirror crawled into the deepest darkest corners of campus looking for Dartmouth's most compulsive perfectionists.


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Warning Signs of Neurotic Perfectionist Tendencies

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You check out the new photo albums on Facebook, and you read, "Created just a moment ago." You blitz yourself so that you'll have new mail the next time you check on a public terminal, which will be a maximum of two minutes later. As you look over notes you took in class you read, "Professor takes 20 second pause and then sips a glass of water.





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The Granite in our Brains

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Is that copy of "People" perched on your elliptical really helping your workout, or are you hungry for gossip in addition to a Collis salad?


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Tech it Out: Macbook air

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What is the geek in all of us going to be drooling over this year? Luofei Deng talks about Steve Jobs' latest masterpiece. I had planned for my first column of the new term and new year to be a look back at 2007 and a look forward to 2008.






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Spotlight

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__Ruth Hupart '08, Co-chair of Sustainable Dartmouth__ _Do you think that our knowledge of the environment has changed in the past decade?


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