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The Dartmouth
October 16, 2026
The Dartmouth
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Amy Knows Everyone

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Each week, Amy examines a small group of students in order to understand the individual Dartmouth experience as part of a whole.




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Overheards

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'10 Girl: I dont know why guys always assume we want relationships, I mean all I want to do is play pong and hook up. '11 KDE: I'm a top search on juicy campus... I'M SO F*CKING IMPORTANT! Girl in Hop 1: Just because you suck at pong... Girl in Hop 2: Doesn't mean you're a bad person. Girl in Hop 3: But they're DEFINITELY correlated. '10 Sigma Delt: I think I came out at birth. While discussing the Heorot igloo: '09 Alpha Phi: Maybe we should build an igloo, too!





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Amy Knows Everyone

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Valentine's Day is next week, but so is Winter Carnival, which means it's far more likely that, when Feb.


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Counterpoint: Blitzmail - Cool Communication or so 90's?

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Blitz is Dartmouth. I love Dartmouth, therefore, I love Blitz. My love for Blitz grew slowly, beginning with an initial fascination during my freshman fall, and peaking while I was abroad last term, cursing the frustrations of Microsoft Outlook and pining for the subtle delicacies that make Blitz so marvelous. There are several key components of the BlitzMail system that make it so usable, unique and defining.



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Confessions of a Gmail Convert

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"My name is Matthew and I'm a Gmail convert." "Hi Matthew." "It's been three months since I last used Blitz." (Gentle applause.) So in other, more pressing news, today I was thinking how relieved I am that no one asks anyone to "get lunch" anymore.




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Overheards

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'11 Guy 1 [Entering a two-man shower]: Yo bro, open up. '11 Guy 2: We're about to have a rub-a-dub dub, two bros in a tub. '10 Girl 1: He's a '12!



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THIS, Sir, Is My Case!

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As a senior, I have seen Hanover's restaurant scene change drastically. I was here before Quiznos, I loved The Wrap, and I'm pretty sure I matriculated 12 Murphy's menus ago.


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Counterpoint: Eating alone - Time to chill, or total loser?

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I have a confession. I am petrified of eating alone. Sit me down in a table at Collis with an open textbook, laptop and crossword and I'll be cozy, but dining solo sans props is an entirely different beast. It has occurred to me that I'm not alone in this boat -- I did a casual survey of Food Court on Saturday at lunch and found one brave luncher dining alone, tucked away in the back corner reading with her laptop open, and her head resting on her hand in an effort to block her face from the rest of the lunch crowd.



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Greetings From... Mexico

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Let me start this off by saying that I'm a huge fan of the Hop quesos. A crispy tortilla filled with tomatoes, salsa and oozing cheese: it's by far one of my favorite foods at Dartmouth. Unfortunately, I'm not such a fan of some of the other "Mexican-style" food in Hanover.


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Amy Knows Everyone

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The only time I ever lived off campus was during sophomore summer. Even then, I was in the Murphy's apartments, in which, if you hang your head out the window, or trot down to the street in pajamas -- as I did, often, with no shame -- you can still pick up the College's wireless. My apartment was intensely hot; class, if I chose to go, was a mere three-minute schlep, and all the people on my hall were other '09s -- and some were even my friends.