Point Counter-point: Binge Drinking (Jordan Hasty)
Over-rated? Under-rated? Unrated? Enthused freshman and jaded senior weigh in
Over-rated? Under-rated? Unrated? Enthused freshman and jaded senior weigh in
At a time when men and women on campus are at each others' throats, it's best to take a step back and look to our roots.
America's poet laureate Hilary Duff (Sept. 28, 1987 " Dec. 25, 2011) once said in her magnum opus, "Haters": "Haters/ Traitors to the human race/ Haters/ What a drag, what a waste/ I'd like to see them disappear/ They don't belong anywhere/ Haters, haters" Never have words rung so true.
Janine Scheiner, visiting professor of psychology at the College and adjunct professor at Dartmouth Medical School, teaches the popular Abnormal Psychology class.
H i, my name is Katherine Gorman, and I am borderline Obsessive-Compulsive (self-diagnosed). Anal retentive and a perfectionist to the max.
Sometimes the pressure to be perfect is too much, and we crack. Not in a "Cuckoo's Nest" way, but more of in a drink a case, boot on the floor, hose the bed kind of way.. Jean Ellen explores how Dartmouth students perfect the art of being imperfect. Upon hearing "compulsive perfectionism," two thoughts crossed my mind: 1.
When I think of Officer David P. Hunt, I think of a mix between Rambo, Lance Armstrong and Denzel Washington: a supreme Alpha Male with charisma like none other, all while riding a bicycle. Rembert: Officer Hunt, how are you? Officer Hunt: You know, I prefer to be called Officer Dave.
Trends and movements can be synonyms, but in the music world the two couldn't sound any more different from each other.
As I lifted the dark-wash denim past my knees, I already felt the ideal amount of stretch in the fabric around my calves.
"I have 32 folders set up in Blitz that I actively use to filter my e-mail." -- Luofei Deng '10 "Open doors -- I cannot begin to focus on anything if some door near me is left ajar." -- Katherine Gorman '08 "Mine is, embarrassingly, footnotes in papers." -- Jean Luo '10 "Actually I think that my most obsessive-compulsive trait is checking Blitz and Facebook." -- Esther Ha '11 "I can't touch public door knobs!
This week The Mirror crawled into the deepest darkest corners of campus looking for Dartmouth's most compulsive perfectionists.
You check out the new photo albums on Facebook, and you read, "Created just a moment ago." You blitz yourself so that you'll have new mail the next time you check on a public terminal, which will be a maximum of two minutes later. As you look over notes you took in class you read, "Professor takes 20 second pause and then sips a glass of water.
In trying to reach the top, do Dartmouth students go too far?
From years of exposure to images of celebrities flaunting their sunglasses, I have come to associate shades with power.
Consensus is that two things are true: this generation is the one to end Western Civilization as we know it, and celebrities are even worse than the rest of us.
Is that copy of "People" perched on your elliptical really helping your workout, or are you hungry for gossip in addition to a Collis salad?
What is the geek in all of us going to be drooling over this year? Luofei Deng talks about Steve Jobs' latest masterpiece. I had planned for my first column of the new term and new year to be a look back at 2007 and a look forward to 2008.
"I think people will know me because I'm personable and make a point of greeting everyone I know." Mina Beveney '11 "Frankly, I hope not.
Caitlin Kelly / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Hey campus insiders, Mirror editor here, and I have some juicy news.
Meryl Streep (transfer student,1970) She may have graduated from Vasser in 1971, but as a senior she spent a term at Dartmouth as a transfer student.