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Frosty's Corner

By Sarah Frostenson | April 14, 2011

Truth: Dartmouth students really do care about their GPAs. Secretly. But we do care. Considering that roughly 90 percent of incoming students at Dartmouth graduated in the top 10 percent of their class, it should come as no surprise that we care about academics.

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The Light at the End of the Tunnel

By Tom Mandel | April 14, 2011

I have a problem. It's somewhat troubling, but I'm not losing sleep over it. I've realized that I'm basing my professional decisions on the television that I'm watching. Like most people my age, I don't watch TV in the traditional way.

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Overheards

By The Dartmouth | April 14, 2011

'13 UGA: My residents know not to say hi to me in public. '12 Girl: Making out is like a college interview you either bomb it, make a really good impression or meh, doesn't matter.

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Duly Noted

By Gardner Davis | April 14, 2011

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.

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The importance of being decent

By Sean Schultz | April 14, 2011

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.

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A culture of honor

By Lauren Vespoli | April 14, 2011

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.

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Reboot and Rally

By Chad Hollis | April 7, 2011

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.

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The DDS Detective

By Priya Krishna | April 7, 2011

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.

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I wrote this at 3 a.m.

By Kathleen Mayer | April 7, 2011

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.

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Overheards

By The Dartmouth | April 7, 2011

'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.

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The Dartmouth Diet

By Zoe Williams | April 7, 2011

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.

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The Light at the End of the Tunnel

By Tom Mandel | April 7, 2011

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.

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