A little over a year ago, I entered Dartmouth’s not-yet-freezing campus a bright-eyed and bushy tailed NARP (Non-Athletic Regular Person). I soon noticed the omnipresence of varsity gear at Dartmouth: black backpacks with telltale stitched green player numbers, Peak Performance shirts and Dartmouth ...
September 25, 2018 10:55pm
Jaime Eeg ’18 is no stranger to the term “crazy horse girl.” It’s the name that people sling at her when she talks about horses — the ones on the horse farm she was raised on, and her very own that she keeps at a barn nearby.
September 25, 2018 10:32pm
Ninety percent of Dartmouth students begin their four years bundled with a group of their soon-to-be classmates, camping in the woods, hiking amidst pleasant conversations, trying their hand at canoeing or making pizza at the Organic Farm.
September 25, 2018 11:37pm
Dartmouth Dining Services is known to students for holding a monopoly over dining options on campus.
September 25, 2018 10:29pm
Leadership is a broad term, but it’s something that many people strive toward. Often times, the type of leadership that people gravitate toward is the kind that comes with a title, and we are often misled to think that the only significant leaders are those who head an organization or have a formal title to their name.
September 19, 2018 10:39am
Before new students arrive on campus each fall, they are emailed a link to fill out the housing preference survey.
September 19, 2018 10:38am
So you come into freshman year, and you think, “New Dartmouth, new me.” You stroll down the intersecting paths of the Green that are disorganized and rocky, unlike the future you have planned for yourself over the next four years.
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September 18, 2018 9:08pm
Evolution. It’s the reason why we’re here. It’s why we stand on two legs, why most of us get our wisdom teeth taken out, why we have five fingers to clasp our morning coffee.
September 18, 2018 9:31pm
From the outside, academic departments may seem like established, unshakable institutions. It is easy to take them for granted, to view them as givens.
September 19, 2018 10:44am
Dartmouth is home to a thriving ecosystem with a variety of flora and fauna that fill its environment, ranging from friendly canines to historic pines.
September 19, 2018 10:42am
Ryan Calsbeek is a professor in the department of biological sciences. He specializes in natural selection and studies evolution in reptiles and amphibians.
September 13, 2018 5:19pm
Unlike many other incoming first-year students, when Emma Chiu ’19 arrived at Dartmouth in the fall of 2015, she had previously heard the terms “flitz,” “FSP” and “BEMA” but only because she had watched a YouTube video of Conan O’Brien’s 2011 Commencement address at Dartmouth and heard him name-drop several examples of campus vocabulary.
September 11, 2018 9:19pm
Every September, over 1,000 first-year students come to Dartmouth. For many, the College provides an outlet to experience new things.
September 11, 2018 7:56pm
Autumn. Leaves shift from their summer greenness to vibrant shades of red, orange and pink. As they span the color spectrum, aging steadily into a crisp brown dryness, the leaves abandon roots and fall one by one to the ground.
September 11, 2018 7:53pm
At work this summer, I was asked to write a card to a client’s daughter. She was about to start her freshman year of college.
September 11, 2018 7:33pm
Peter Orner is a new professor in the department of English and creative writing. Orner has authored acclaimed story collections and novels and edited various oral histories over the past two decades.
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September 11, 2018 8:45pm
If you are not struck by love upon your first step on the Green, first Collis smoothie or first run around Pine Park — no fear.
September 11, 2018 7:34pm
Welcome back to campus, Dartmouth! From the hints of orange, yellow and red on the trees to the crispness and coolness of the air, it is evident that 18F is finally upon us.
September 13, 2018 5:32pm
22s, you’ll soon come to realize that at Dartmouth, we’re all hungry. Hungry for knowledge, success, friendship, and above all else, food.
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September 13, 2018 5:39pm
Your freshman year at Dartmouth has a special kind of glow. There will be moments in which it feels like the best time of your life — when you make friends with people from all across the country, when you experience the magic of four distinct seasons, when you uncover opportunities for learning whose existence you never fathomed.
