Top 5 Rejected "What If" Articles for This Issue
1."What if when they rebuilt Dartmouth Hall, they painted it pink?" What a great question! Just kidding.
1."What if when they rebuilt Dartmouth Hall, they painted it pink?" What a great question! Just kidding.
This is the story of a different Dartmouth. We measure time on a line. Sort of. Someone decided to bend that line into a circle.
Catch, drive, finish, release. Catch. Drive. Finish. Release. The only thought that occupies my mind three hours every morning, six days a week.
Dartmouth already has its fair share of contemporary celebrity alums, from the real such as Mindy Kaling '01 and Timothy Geithner '83 to the fictional, such as Meredith Grey and Stephen Colbert.
Dartmouth is located in Hanover, South Carolina. Sometimes we love it, sometimes we hate it, but mostly it is awesome.
Rebecca Xu / The Dartmouth We all like to imagine alternate versions of our lives.
"Coulda, woulda, shoulda." That's what my dad always says when I start a sentence with "I should have..." It's infuriating.
In today's cyber age, compiling information has never been easier for the average Dartmouth student working on a research paper.
It would be the understatement of the past 243 years to say that the Dartmouth of 2012 is different than the College on the Hill founded by Eleazar Wheelock in 1769.
Unsurprisingly, a Dartmouth alum, Robert Smith, Class of 1902, was the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, which now helps more than two million recovering alcoholics in 134 countries. Amos Tuck, Class of 1835, founded the original GOP, organizing its first meeting at Major Blake's Tavern in Exeter, N.H.
Editor's Note: Through the Looking Glass is The Mirror's newest feature. We welcome submissions from all members of the community both past and present who wish to write about defining experiences, moments or relationships during their time at Dartmouth.
When I was six years old, my uncle gave me a lacrosse stick for my birthday. Every day after school, I would grab it from the bench in our kitchen and run outside to play catch against this thing called a Rebounder, a bouncy net that sends the ball straight back to you.
This is the story of a drop of water. Imagine what water once meant. Imagine what it still means to so many.
'13 Girl looking at guy's love match sheet: There are no girls on this entire sheet!'13 Guy: That's because I'm gay... '13 Girl: I'm allergic to cats, but i LOVE cat photos! Psych prof: Apparently I give "tricky-ass" tests, according to your evaluations.
If Eleazar Wheelock could see us now, he would be rolling over in his grave. Yes, Dartmouth has remained a bastion of higher education over the centuries, and we are just as in the middle of the woods as we ever were.
I never get cell phone service in Lou's. On more than one occasion, I have accidentally flagged down a waitress as I guiltily raised my iPhone high above my blueberry-peach pancakes, hoping to catch a single bar of service. "It's frustrating," Libby Buttenweiser '15 said of the "dead zones" in Hanover, of which Lou's Restaurant is only one example.
Dartmouth 1957 WASP. One syllable encapsulates how a lot of people on the outside view Dartmouth.
Not to depress you or anything, but the majority of Dartmouth's most famous alumni are, well, dead.
Over a period of more than two centuries, Greek letter organizations and their literary society predecessors have become intricately intertwined with Dartmouth's culture.
Rebecca Xu / The Dartmouth I'm all for living in the now.