One Term Later...
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.
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.
Rebecca Xu / The Dartmouth Staff Now that Priya and I are seniors and our reign of terror as Mirror editors is almost at its end, we can't help but get a little nostalgic every now and then.
Unidentified male outside of FoCo: I actually tried shrooms as an appetite suppressor, you know, to, like, stop the munchies.
Ranging from trampolines to tutus, bequests are an important Dartmouth tradition that tie students to the past and unite us with the future, more closely connecting us with campus organizations as older members depart and allowing us to cement our own legacies when we are the ones leaving. Jake Osman '15, a member of this year's Vox Croo on for DOC First-Year Trips, said that the bequests he values most were ones that could be traced back the longest. "The flair bequests that we have are not so much personal to you as much as they are carrying on the legacy," Osman said.
Dear Gardner and Kate, I'm going to my first formal this weekend, and I was considering getting my date flowers.
The uninformed and uninitiated on campus probably think of members of the Ledyard Canoe Club as scruffy, sparsely showered masterminds responsible for time-tested Dartmouth staples like the Ledyard Challenge and the War Canoe.
Bring the Keg Jump back. Have you seen the YouTube videos? Haze the crap out of the freshmen by forcing them to run around a giant bonfire.
Dear Gardner and Kate, What should I expect from alumni during Homecoming? Pledge Peter '15 Gardner: Campus has changed a lot since even recent alumni graduated.