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The Dartmouth
August 20, 2026
The Dartmouth
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A culture of honor

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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'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

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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

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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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Dartmouth D-Bags

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When we applied to Dartmouth, did we agree to become the type of people who automatically places others in neatly-labeled-boxes?



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Frosty's Corner

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The Dartmouth Breakfast Club. There are few things more pivotal in our adolescent development than finding an anthem we can really rally behind.





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I wrote this at 3 a.m.

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Here's my question: What's the deal with Jerry Seinfeld's most irritatingly entrenched legacy being this stupid "What's the deal with " catchphrase?



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Overheards

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'14 Girl: TEDx? Did they spell Theta Delt wrong? '11 Girl: I just bought a little thing of Ben and Jerry's.