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July 16, 2025 | Latest Issue
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The Music You Know

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Dartmouth, we have an addiction problem. I'm not talking about Blitz or Keystone. This addiction finds us in our rooms, in basements, even on DOC Trips.


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Overheard

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'10 Girl 1: WTF, why can't we be drinking out here, we're 21. '10 Girl 2: Yeah this is New Hampshire, our motto's not live free or die sober! '11 Girl: If I hook up with her, would it violate the rules of rush? '08 Working at the career fair: I think I'm still drunk. '10 Psi U 1 to '10 Psi U 2: Yo man, you want to get dressed in similar outfits tonight? '12 Girl 1: That guy is so hot'12 Girl 2: OMG yes, who is he?'12 Girl 1: I think he's a Beta.'12 Girl 2: Oh great ... sexy, but never hooks up with anyone. '12 Guy: I just put on some coverup, and now it's raining.




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What's your Social Site?

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Upon starting your first year at Dartmouth, you probably received a copy of the Green Book, which contains a picture of each member of your class paired with some personal information limited to hometown and high school.


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Spotlight on Filligar

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Pete Mathias '09, Teddy Mathias '09, Johnny Mathias '11 and Casey Gibson have bouncy, swooning voices when singing in their wildly-popular-among-college-kids rock band, Filligar.


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Editors' Note

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Alex Rivadeneira / The Dartmouth Senior Staff N ow that we are officially a week into our senior year at Dartmouth, it seems like only yesterday Jen and I were eagerly friending random members of the Class of 2010 on Facebook with the notion, that, "Hey, we are going to be fellow '10s, so of course we must be friends by default." In our three years here, Facebook and online social networking sites have transformed the way we communicate, and have influenced the people we choose to know.


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A Voice Crying Out in the Twittersphere

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True story: Late one night my sophomore spring, I was working on a paper in a study lounge in McLane, when a black girl tried to throw herself out the window of whatever that dorm is across Tuck Drive. She was screaming out to the streets about how racist and hopeless Dartmouth is, and screaming at her friend, and climbing in and out of her fourth-floor window, and generally making it difficult for me to do my homework. She was hollering about how awful it is to be a woman, and to be black, and how disgusted she is by our false pretense of diversity here when Twitter update from MyToddelmog: "Natalie Portman just walked down my block." Humph.



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The Revolution Will (Probably) Not Be Twittered

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I usually know a trend has arrived when my father blitzes me with a confused question, and in light of his recent inquiry about "getting on that Twitter thing," I'm going to call social networking an official phenomenon. From a serious analytical perspective, I think that we've definitively seen the Rise of Friendster and weathered The Shift Towards Facebook (you know you can see future sociologists seriously debating this). The pressing question of the day now is, "Has the Great Twitter Awakening Begun?" Are we on the cusp of a major revolution? Unfortunately, I might not be the best person to answer these questions, because I have an embarrassing confession to make: I don't tweet.



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Overheard

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KDE '10: I just Good Sam guys I don't want to hook up with. TDX '11: Dude, either go to bed or come back to the tweetsesh. '10 girl: I love hanging out at phi delt because you can do whatever you want and nobody there will remember it the next morning. '10 Girl: She looks like a guy from behind.'10 Guy: Guys don't wear thongs. '13 Girl (in line at the Hop): What's the Big Bad Burger?'11 Guy: Two burgers with cheese and bbq sauce.'13 Girl: What's "DBL"?'11 Guy: ... Double. '13 Girl: Excuse me, can you help me with this?


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Friending and Following (Counterpoint)

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Mr. Zuckerberg, you have created a monster. The appropriate use of social networking along with the economic downturn, global health care inadequacies and climate change has become one of the great hurdles facing our generation.


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Reboot and Rally

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Due to Twitter's inherent limitations, a cottage industry has sprung up around it in an effort to add functionality and circumvent the 140-character limit per tweet.



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Wifing

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With three-fourths of the campus away this term, the potential for hook-ups has been mighty slim.


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Meeting the Parents

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There comes a time in every American college student's life when she must confront the fact that her best friend did not arise from a vacuum - that her friend did, in fact have a life, home and family before college.



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Editor's Note

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/ The Dartmouth Staff With summer a week shy of closing,The heat at an end you're opposing,Your fears we shall quellWith truths we shall tell,If you don't shy from gettin' to nosing.


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Overheards

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First '11 Female: I always think about sex in the library. The second I'm there, bam, I'm thinking about it.