Winter Wonderings
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.
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.
It's no secret that Hanover winters are generally pretty rough, and for some people they're much rougher than for others.
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.
/ The Dartmouth Staff Whenever people hear that I'm from Chicago, they automatically assume I'm fine with the cold.
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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.
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.
Dear Gardner, There is a girl that I've had a crush on since we were freshman floormates, but she seems so perfect that I've never gotten up the courage to ask her out.
"Heathers," the '80s cult classic high school drama features some of the best hair and best outfits ever shown in feature-length film. "Drop Dead Gorgeous," a mockumentary about beauty pageant contestants in Minnesota.
'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.
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?
It's so cold! I can't believe it's already dark outside! I can't wait for the summer! You're not even a paragraph in here and you're probably already bored because you've heard exactly that countless times today.
'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.
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.
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.
/ The Dartmouth Staff There are a million things that we are encouraged to do with our dreams: chase them, follow them, achieve them.
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.
/ The Dartmouth Staff Remember being younger and watching sitcoms on TV, imagining the moment when you were going to be grown up and live an exciting life like the characters?
Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen. Regardless of who's crazy now, they were the most adorable twins out there. Peanut butter and chocolate, better known to some as chocolate and peanut butter. Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield.