Animal House
Dartmouth is not a respectable academic institution. Tuck is a respectable academic institution.
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?
Let's say you have the aspirations of a double major but the laziness of the average, single-majoring college student.
As long as there are words to express human sentiment, there will be people trying to find ways to maximize efficiency of communication, to streamline our language into nearly unrecognizable shorthand like "u down 2 hu l8r?" Of course, slang has been culturally universal for centuries, as each society develops easy shortcuts to understand each other.
So you've got your major. I'm not impressed. You'll probably change your mind at least twice before you graduate anyway.
I think all my high school teachers and most of my friends would have pegged me as an English major, but I never expected it myself.