The Things We'll Carry
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.
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.
The days leading up to your first days at college can be either your most stressful or your most exhilarating.
A few weeks ago, Trinity College passed measures to permanently and significantly alter its Greek system.
If nothing else, this week I may prove how little shame I have left or, to spin it positively, the lengths to which I will go for this column.
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.
Allison Wang / The Dartmouth *Now that they've run around the bonfire, finished their first term of classes and told their fair share of embarrassing stories from their long journeys since September, it's time to see what the '16s have learned about Dartmouth so far.
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.
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.
Marietta Smith / The Dartmouth Staff This one time, one of my floormates blacked out and wandered into my room.
Dear freshman fall Jack, How is everything going? Wait, don't tell me let me guess. I have a feeling I may have some idea of what you've been going through.
'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.
Dear Gardner and Kate, If you could give a few pieces of advice to yourselves as freshmen, what would they be?Shelly Sixteen '16 Gardner: On a broad level, I would tell myself to worry less about everything, especially what other people think.
Rebecca Xu / The Dartmouth Staff
Freshman pregames and an uncanny, and yet unfortunately short-lived, ability to guzzle $5 vodka from plastic bottles. Getting care packages from our parents.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.