Fake it till you make it
There are a lot of things Dartmouth students try to fake: fashion (e.g. flair), pong skills, healthy eating, society taps and studying on FFB.
There are a lot of things Dartmouth students try to fake: fashion (e.g. flair), pong skills, healthy eating, society taps and studying on FFB.
Justin Cozad / The Dartmouth Staff Maybe you really were sharpening your pencil and not peaking at your neighbor's chem test.
Integrity is defined as the honesty and truthfulness of one's actions.1 Like most abstract nouns, however, it is nearly impossible to confine the weight carried by the word "integrity" to a sentence, an article or even a thesis.
As spring unfolds and the '15s storm campus, my paternalistic impulse is kicking in. The prospies are venturing into what is likely one of their first collegiate experiences, particularly the seedy underbelly of Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday nights at the College.
Certain issues are always on our minds at Dartmouth, from the frivolous your potential as a Masters player, whether the sandwich line is worth waiting in, whether you should start flitzing with that hottie in your seminar - to the more substantial gendered social spaces, campus diversity, budget cuts.
I've witnessed many changes over my three well-spent years at Dartmouth. I've seen the end of a great college president's tenure and the beginning of another's equally promising career.
My New Year's resolution this year was to not talk about food as much. Note to self: Do not make New Year's resolutions swearing off foodie-speak when you are about to spend a term in France, the food capital of the world.
The distillation of human experience into easily identifiable and quantifiable rates and modes of change is a crackpot fantasy perfect self-knowledge is a dream whose attainability is more impossible than immortality itself.
'14 Guy: I just now got out of bed. I slept with a garbage can next to me. I took 11 shots.'12 Guy: Wow, that's more than Dartmouth's acceptance rate. Ex-Fraternity President: I should've gone Phi Delt. '12 BG: This is the ill oxymoron right here Cheeze-Its in my cardigan. '12 Girl: Who's your favorite singer?'12's Dad: Definitely Bruce Springsteen or Ludacris. '11 Sig Ep: I dropped my 2a today because I didn't want to be hung over in it. '14 Guy on Spring Break: Sometimes when I'm drunk, I look in the mirror and I'm surprised to find I'm Asian. '11 Guy: I defriended my pastor, but I'm still friends with my mom.
This week, our editors posed the question, "How does Dartmouth change you?" The answer occurred to me with such force and clarity that I can only liken the experience to that of Mormons who attest to receiving heavenly testimony from God.**## "Zoe," said a mystical voice.
There's no need to editorialize Jamie's room the dozens of magazine covers spread out like a newsstand thesaurus across his suite wall give it plenty of context.
My mom was really happy to see me pack up all my bequests. Which is understandable. For the past two years, I've come home in June with a trash bag full of what appears to her (and the rest of the world) to be the most ugly and disgusting clothing imaginable.
So, you guys These are the only three words I've managed to type in the past two hours. And they're not even politically correct.
When I was a little kid, I wanted to be a sniper. Not just any sniper I aspired to be the next Simo Hayha.
When we applied to Dartmouth, did we agree to become the type of people who automatically places others in neatly-labeled-boxes?
Chances are you've faced at least a few of these choices.
The Dartmouth Breakfast Club. There are few things more pivotal in our adolescent development than finding an anthem we can really rally behind.
Justin Cozad / The Dartmouth Staff We're concerned: Dartmouth has changed us for the worse.
Life has changed. Things are often weird and vague, and when you're high people make you watch "Red Planet." We are post-Gaga living in a material world, both jobless and trying to join the actual world.
Our generation has grown accustomed to 21st century facilities, and College administrators constantly strive to keep our campus as up-to-date as possible.