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Top 5 Ways to Avoid Creepy Alumns over Carnival

By Amelia Acosta | February 7, 2013

DO NOT under any circumstances eat any of your meals in town, unless you want to dine alongside alums enjoying legality in Hanover with $2 margaritas or karaoke at Salt Hill Pub. If you see beer other than Keystone in the basement, don't touch it.

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Carnival has dramatic history

By Lily Fagin | February 7, 2013

The Winter Carnival celebrations that Dartmouth students now enjoy began as a mere field day in 1910 after a single student, Fred Harris '11, proposed in The Dartmouth that students should take greater advantage of the opportunities the frigid Hanover weather presents for showcasing winter sports. Since then, the weekend has seen beauty pageants, the mental breakdown of an American literary giant and a number of particularly rowdy fraternity parties. At its inception, Winter Carnival, which was then known as "Winter Meet," involved ski races, hockey games and other sporting events held around Occom Pond.

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Winter Wonderings

By Troy Palmer | January 31, 2013

You're hanging out with your public policy textbook and KAF chai latte in the 1902 Room because it's totally trendy and totally hardcore.

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The Winternship

By Iris Liu | January 31, 2013

As our favorite alumnus Dr. Seuss once said: "The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house.

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Editor's Note

By Amelia Acosta | January 31, 2013

/ The Dartmouth Staff Whenever people hear that I'm from Chicago, they automatically assume I'm fine with the cold.

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Through the Looking Glass: On Replay

By Jay Webster | January 31, 2013

Editor's Note: We welcome submissions from all members of the community both past and present who wish to write about defining experiences, moments or relationships during their time at Dartmouth.

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Eat Your SADness Away

By Andrew Zhu | January 31, 2013

You look outside your window and all you see is a sheet of white. You check your iPhone weather app to try to assuage yourself and just disregard the number, not even believing it can get this cold.

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Layer Up, Buckle Down

By Natalie Van Brunt | January 31, 2013

When the temperatures start to drop and the sun goes into hibernation for weeks at time, there is a very good chance you will find me camped out on the floor of my room, hidden in a blanket cocoon and living off peanut butter, dry cereal and whatever else I can eat without leaving my little bubble-within-a-bubble.

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Overheards

January 31, 2013

'13 Girl: What the hell is Tinder? Everyone and their mom is asking about it.'14 Girl: It's like a dating app.'13 Girl: Is there a hit it and quit it app? '15 Girl: I'm pretty sure I just pooped at the thought of eating a Hop burrito. '16 Guy: I heard that you get some sort of cane with a snake on it at graduation if you write a thesis. '14 Girl: Remember when we took Bailey's shots and chased them with Cheerios?'14 Girl 2: Yeah, things went downhill sophomore year. '13 Guy: Do you think my professor will think I'm more responsible if I submit this during meetings? English 42 TA: I watched this movie on my honeymoon and it didn't interrupt any of the normal honeymoon activities. '14 Girl: I can't wear my fur vest on Tuesdays and Thursdays because that's when I have my animal rights class. '13 Girl: You see, poverty is not my thing.

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When the Friendship Sails

By Mary Liza Hartong | January 31, 2013

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. A significant portion of the '15s and '14s have flown south for the winter, but what about the rest of us?

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Overheards

January 24, 2013

'13 Guy: A firm doesn't want to hire me because they saw pictures of me blacked out on Facebook? Well I didn't want to work for them anyway. '16 Girl: It's so cold.

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A Banker and Teacher Walk Into a Bar...

By Myrel Iturrey | January 24, 2013

Rummaging through a bin of old art projects, I came across my illustrated kindergarten journal. The obligatory memoir of my elementary school years had enough drawings of my puppy to dedicate a wing of the Louvre in his honor.

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Through the Looking Glass: Who We Ought to Be

By CONNOR WATUMULL | January 24, 2013

There is a security that being students affords us, [whether we acknowledge it or not]. We have to transition from high school to college, we have to pick classes, we have to elect majors and choose various clubs to join, but there are relatively few times when we are forced to see ourselves as something other than students.

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Editor's Note

By Amelia Acosta | January 24, 2013

/ The Dartmouth Staff There are a million things that we are encouraged to do with our dreams: chase them, follow them, achieve them.

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Nap Nap City

By Elizabeth Trager | January 24, 2013

Waking up groggily from my typical mid-day nap in my newly fabulous king-sized bed (did anyone know that two twin XL beds mashed together magically creates a king-sized sleeping heaven?), I am forced to contemplate the age-old question we have all been asking since it was cool to watch "The Land Before Time" to nap or not to nap? Truth is, getting enough sleep at college is a rare delicacy, like Beluga caviar or that awesome African Drumming 2A.

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