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The Dartmouth
June 27, 2026
The Dartmouth
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The Things We'll Carry

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Eager as I was to return to our Big Green home, I found myself desperately fending off the impending sense of responsibility nagging at the back of my six-week-hibernated brain.





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A Letter to My Freshman Fall Self: Reese

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I don't really know how to write this letter. I would like to think that is because there is nothing I'd change about my last three years at Darmouth, but it is probably more that I'm not ready to admit the things that I really messed up.



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Take Me Back to Freshman Fall

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From academics and extracurricular activities to dining preferences and exercise options (if any at all), Dartmouth students tend to be extremely divided in their interests.


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One Term Later...

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Ah, freshman fall. Oh, to be that young and naive! Now that I am nearly finished with the first term of my college experience, I feel I can finally look back on these long gone months with nostalgia and clarity.




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Overheards

'14 Girl: It's like champong. At first, you're like, oh, this is yummy. Then you're like, oh, I'm on the floor. '13 Girl: Did you vote?'13 Guy: I voted absentee.





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Sporting Traditions

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It's hard to miss an athlete on campus. Armed with heavy duffle bags of gear and the latest Nike sneakers, it appears that Dartmouth varsity athletes have rightly squared themselves with popular media portrayals of the "college jock." Equally hard to miss are the throngs these athletes often form, whether they are eating in a dining hall or walking together to practice they represent a team in every sense of the word, and that includes their unique traditions. Julian Danziger '15, a member of the lightweight rowing team, said that the process of complete assimilation into a sports team is just that a process.



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Getting in Gear

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Courtesy of Rauner Special Collections Like a lot of traditions at Dartmouth, pledge gear isn't really comprehensible until you've spent some time on campus, and even then it doesn't always make sense.


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When the Old Traditions Fail

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Marietta Smith / The Dartmouth Staff One of our alma mater's most memorable lines asks us to "set a watch, lest the old traditions fail." Yet throughout the College's history, many old traditions have indeed failed and passed on into the twilight of memory.


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Through the Looking Glass: The "Dartmouth Experience"

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There is a certain atmosphere of paranoia that comes with your senior fall at Dartmouth. After three years of accepting this place as your home, you suddenly feel like you've been strapped to a time bomb, ticking away the precious seconds until someone hands you a diploma and your life explodes.


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The Dartmouth Bucket List

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Last weekend, there was a lot of self-imposed pressure on seniors to make the most of their last Homecoming as undergraduates to go out every night and have loads of fun, all while looking good in green the next day and attending every tailgate and sports game.