Winter's Effects on Social Life: Migration Indoors
As we settle further into winter term, the snow and the schoolwork pile up. Bean boots and backpacks come out.
As we settle further into winter term, the snow and the schoolwork pile up. Bean boots and backpacks come out.
As flocks of geese escape winter’s frigid grip, seniors are similarly preparing to embark on their own journey.
Migration. During the winter geese take refuge from the harsh winter winds.
Coming back to Hanover in the winter is like coming back to a different world: The entire campus is coated in a layer of beautiful snow, making everything glitter.
Divisions. How are we divided? Everyday we are faced with a series of choices, placing ourselves into a series of categories.
Combining her love for fashion and social media, Jamie Ma ’20 created a project last fall with a stated mission to explore “the personal and individual styles of the Dartmouth community.” Her Instagram page @dartmouthflair has since attracted over 800 followers and counting. Ma decided to model @dartmouthflair after a similar Instagram page that started at the boarding school she attended for high school.
The first year for college students can bring massive changes to their lives, from making new friends to keeping up with the academic pressures.
The life of an Ivy League athlete is unlike any other. During the season, football player Emory Thompson ’18’s day starts around 6 a.m., when he wakes up to lift weights with his team.
At Dartmouth College, which offers more than 60 majors and numerous other minors, the mathematics department is largely an enigma for the hundreds of social science and humanities students who fulfill their single QDS distributive requirement and move on.
The house system brings about familiarity and comfort to some, apprehension and novelty to others.
Leslie Butler is a professor in the history department who recently undertook a year-long writing fellowship funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Before my first Dartmouth winter, I’d seen snow exactly four times. Five if you count the only time it snowed in my lifetime in San Francisco: Dec.
Although more than seven decades have passed since the end of World War II, and Dartmouth College has grown in size, prominence and scope over the past nearly three quarters of a century, some things haven’t changed.
If coming to Dartmouth has taught me anything, it’s that people can quickly change gears to achieve a goal.
Fresh snow covers the ground as the Dartmouth Coach pulls up in front of the Hanover Inn. I step off the bus, grab my suitcase and trek toward my dorm.
Winterim is a beast of a break. At six weeks long, it can feel drawn-out, especially for first-year students coming off of their inaugural 10 week term.
Welcome back to campus. We all return weary from all the reunions that occurred over break: reunions with our high school friends (or avoiding reunions with our former classmates), reunions with family members and reunions with our home selves — less or more wild versions of the person we are at Dartmouth.
Cris explores how artists know when to put down their brushes, pens or cameras and walk away from a work of art.
Janice discovers a book of letters from a Dartmouth student who died tragically in 1934. She finds parallels between Dartmouth then and Dartmouth now.