Dartmouth's day out
We all love Dartmouth. Dartmouth loves all of us. Despite all this talk about love, some of us here at The Mirror couldn't help but remember that we're drowning in mother-effing midterms.
We all love Dartmouth. Dartmouth loves all of us. Despite all this talk about love, some of us here at The Mirror couldn't help but remember that we're drowning in mother-effing midterms.
I talk a lot about apathy and try to hang it on masculine expectations of emotional detachment or the shallowness of digital communication or whatever else.
If I hear one more person complain about something at Dartmouth, I'm going to lose it. I'm in the 1902 Room right now, so if it happens as I write this I swear to God I'm going to flip a table in here, flip it back over, stand on it, go on a long-winded and obnoxiously loud tirade about the tyranny of complainers and then sit back down and not do anything about it. Where do I even begin when it comes to complainers?
I remember when an admissions dude came to my high school and told us something along the lines of "Dartmouth students like to challenge themselves by voluntarily taking difficult high-level courses with low medians." Wonderful I thought, Dartmouth is like MIT in the middle of the woods, filled with English majors that take orgo for fun and science majors taking seminars in European medieval history.
Dartmouth is not a respectable academic institution. Tuck is a respectable academic institution.
They say you can't judge a book by its cover. Does that mean you can't judge Dartmouth by an admission book?
'11 Social Chair: I'm trying to get my house on probation. Then I won't have to do anything for the rest of the term. '11 Girl: Last night I used a particularly scratchy pong paddle to file my nails. '11 Engineer: When life gives you lemons, make Four Loko. '11 Girl 1: I just can't figure out what year he is.
Most Dartmouth students love this College. But what do the people back home think? We all have individual identities, but there's no denying that by choosing to go to Dartmouth, we associate ourselves to some extent with its reputation and not just the academic one. Initially, my parents were on the accepted-student cloud for months.
Summer of 2007. I've just graduated from high school, I'm awkward, I'm set to matriculate at Dartmouth and I spend my days trying (and failing) to get with girls and find that mythical fun-and-booze-filled party.
Yeah, yeah. We're the inspiration for "Animal House" and the inventors of pong. We go out more days per week than we go to class (unless you are a poor soul with a 10A) and I've heard that 1 percent of the world's Keystone is sold here.
Animal House is easily one of the best-known Dartmouth media references of all time, but it's difficult to truly appreciate how much movies like "Animal House" have affected the way outsiders and students perceive our school.
At once a leading academic institution and a party school of mythical proportions, Dartmouth is truly the Animal House Ivy.
Disclaimer: This column has nothing to do with this week's theme. It's also not in my usual list format.
Truth: Anonymous @6:24 p.m. You need to get a life. No, seriously you do. Either that or you need to grow a pair. I'm serious.
Deidra Willis / The Dartmouth Staff How would you explain Dartmouth to someone who's never played pong with a paddle or walked to class in -20 degree weather?
Graduation looming on the horizon makes a girl think about her values. If you haven't noticed that yet, please ruminate on that last sentence and try to mentally estimate how many times you've read that sappy shit almost word-for-word before.
I am an English major. I am English major because I like to write (revelatory!) and because I don't particularly like to endure inhuman levels of academic agony.
It's Winter term again, which means that in a few short weeks, '13s will be faced with the monumental task of filling out a deceptively simple little blank card. Despite the pressure, it's important to keep in mind that your major will not define your Dartmouth career that's the beauty of a liberal arts education, after all.
'14 Girl: Is the walk of shame less shameful if you do it in a onesie? '12 KDE about a new pledge: Isn't she gorgeous?