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July 17, 2025 | Latest Issue
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Spreading Ourselves Too Thin: What Dartmouth Students Sacrifice to Excel

I interviewed upwards of 29 people (which the professors of Gov 10, Math 9, Public Policy 11 and Psychology 11 would all tell me is not a particularly impressive sample size) for this article and have come to quite the statistically significant conclusion that nearly all of those interviewed (28 out of 29, to be precise) use an Excel spreadsheet to plan their class schedule and major, plot their D-Plan and often calculate their maximum possible GPA.




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The Mirror Picks

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STYLISH:Fieldstock 09X Tank-TopI have never been a big fan of buying T-shirts at Dartmouth. Yes, I was at Green Key '08, but I don't need to advertise Keystone to prove it.



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Overheards

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'11 Girl: I said do NOT make me black in. '11 KDE: I had so much more sex in high school. S&S Officer in South Mass: What's in that cup?Friend from home holding a cup of Tea: I think it's just iced tea, sir.S&S: Let me smell it.



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Don't you wish you could schedule...

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(Free) Sex Religious epiphanies Bowel movements Surprise visits by S&S Moments of clarity about your future Greenprint breakdowns Macaroni day at Collis The snow days we never had Unexpected, but much-needed extensions Genuine FMLs Overheards


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Sound Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself

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There have been times in our society's history when progress starts unraveling. Bush's reelection in 2004, the production of sexually objectified Bratz dolls and any reality television series currently airing or even being imagined stand out as prominent examples of moments when America saw growth and the potential for change in the horizon and then turned around and ran in the opposite direction. Unfortunately, plateaus in the evolution of music often occur as well.


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Lingo Love: Forming a Community

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Conventional wisdom holds that Hanover is really, really small and in the middle of nowhere. Granted, when your Classics 4 notes are heaped next to those forms you've been meaning to turn in for that club you're running and you're stuck in the stacks anyway, then the Appalachian Trail is no better nor worse a place than anywhere else to be.


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Editor's Note

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Flashback: it's the end of Spring term, and I'm sitting outside of Collis "studying," "getting facetime," or "people-watching,"whatever you want to call it.


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Overheards

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'11 Tri Delt to '11 KDE: You need to knock some Keystone into her! '11 SAE (on a cell phone leaving jungle party): Dude, I just need it back.




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Overheards

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'11 KDE: Hurry up let's start, I'm getting sober. '11 Kappa: I don't feel like drinking tonight.




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F Is for Fail

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Today I had to call my mother and admit I broke my phone this weekend. Since I had called her exactly one week ago to tell her I dropped my phone's battery down a sewer, she was not exactly pleased.


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Top Ten: Off-Campus Eating for Cheapskates

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Ok, so we all know that there's nothing new to discover on Main Street. But with Foco as the only dinner option, what to do when the entrees costing you $7.95? Let's be real, with an off-campus meal plan, DBA is basically just real money.