The Yogi Within
As a high school varsity athlete turned NARP, I am pretty much one of the least flexible people on this campus.
As a high school varsity athlete turned NARP, I am pretty much one of the least flexible people on this campus.
Rebecca Xu / The Dartmouth Staff Because I grew up in Alaska, I'm much more comfortable in the woods than are most people.
Trips are ingrained into Dartmouth culture more so than most activities or traditions on this campus.
Dartmouth's Greek tradition is a long and proud one, stretching all the way back to the 19th century.
Two '15 Guys in KAF: Frat dues ... wait, they are part of tuition, right? '13 Psi U: Hey, do you wanna play pong upstairs with my puppy while checking blitz? '13 Guy: Wow, I smell more masculine now after having put on this Kappa shirt. '13 Girl: And then she confused necropheliacs with narcolespy. '16 in PHIL 1: Wow, Socrates was like ... such a hipster. '13 Tri-Delt: I just wanna go home I mean Psi U.
He was a funny guy, or at least I thought so. And he was a senior. And he was nice to me. He remembered my name, sort of, and he said hi to me in FoCo, sometimes.
DOC aren't actually a "fundamental" determination of how the next four years of your life are going to go they just so happen to be the first thing you do when you get on campus.
In high school, most Dartmouth students participated in pretty much every activity possible, from surf club to the debate team to underwater basket weaving anything that we thought would help us get into college.
Rebecca Xu / The Dartmouth Staff Nathan Yeo / The Dartmouth Senior Staff If you ever took AP Government in high school, you would have learned how much the media likes to create divisions by splitting political candidates down ideological lines or creating a battleground for some sort of hot-button issue.
When I was younger, a sleepover with a friend always felt like a blessing from the gods. To prepare, I would begin to eagerly concoct plans in anticipation.
Dear Gardner and Kate, What makes you qualified to write an advice column? Why should I trust you with my problems over my UGA, my first-year dean or my cousin who is an '08?
Jamie Mercado / The Dartmouth Staff TESLA### 8:00 a.m.: "A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are built for," John Shedd once said.
If Dartmouth's administration mandated that all Greek houses on campus "go coed" by banning gender discrimination in the rush process, I can only imagine the opposition.
If you decide not to live with friends when room draw rolls around, your remaining options are: live with an enemy, live with a rando or live alone.
Men's rugby team vs. women's rugby team: We actually have no idea who would come out alive. Dean Johnson and the "silent majority" vs.
I didn't think I would ever make it to the Second College Grant as an undergrad until I was assigned to lead canoeing for DOC Trips at the end of the summer.
I'm not even going to write this point/counterpoint saying that Dartmouth is the kind of place that gets really excited about changes, because that would be blatantly incorrect.
To examine Dartmouth's history is to observe that the College is resistant to change. Probably the most momentous example of this reactionary behavior was in response to one of the largest changes at Dartmouth: the admittance of women beginning in 1972.
Courtesy of Rauner Special Collections For most of us, Dartmouth's allure back in application season had very little to do with quaint Hanover.
Rebecca Xu / The Dartmouth Staff Though good old Dartmouth may boast about its long-held traditions, some of our proud ways haven't always stayed exactly the same.