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Through the Looking Glass: Lessons Learned from the Dartmouth Community

By Kathryn Sachs | June 9, 2018

When I was looking at colleges, I asked current students a lot of questions. Their responses were plentiful, varied and usually helpful.

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Knowing Nothing

By Ray Lu | June 9, 2018

During an especially introspective stretch of time, my 15-year-old self jotted down several quotes that fell within the boundaries of what I perceived to be profound.

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Reevaluating the Victory Lap

By Phil Rasansky | June 9, 2018

I remember the first time Dartmouth felt like home. I remember the day — Jan. 3, 2015. I remember my outfit — a recently-bought wool sweater littered with pretzel crumbs.

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On Taking Up Space

By Erin Lee | June 9, 2018

College is weird. Part extended summer camp, part boarding school for semi-grownups, part elitist neoliberal institution, part academia machine, college means different things to different people, but no one really knows what it’s going to be like until they’re there.

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Embracing Identity

By Kourtney Kawano | June 9, 2018

A writer for The Dartmouth once joked that staffers only know two things about me: that I’m from Hawaiʻi and that I have consistently arrived late to campus each term.

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Through The Looking Glass: In Defense Of The Comfort Zone

By Haley Gordon | June 2, 2018

When I walked away from my parents on Robinson Hall’s lawn for Dartmouth Outing Club First-Year Trips, laden with a heavy backpack leftover from my father’s Eagle Scout days and several items of mild contraband, I knew that I wouldn’t be talking for a while.

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Editor's Note: The Last Word

By Marie-Capucine Pineau-Valencienne and Carolyn Zhou | May 30, 2018

The last word. When everything is said and done, what is left? You spent four years here. Twelve terms.

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Through The Looking Glass: Learning How to Remember

By Madeline Killen | May 30, 2018

Last week, when I learned that Philip Roth had died, I searched my Notes app for the line from “American Pastoral” that I’d copied down last spring: “And since we don’t just forget things because they don’t matter but also forget things because they matter too much ­... each of us remembers and forgets in a pattern whose labyrinthine windings are an identification mark no less distinctive than a fingerprint...” I was sitting on the grass outside of the River apartments on one of those first warm days of spring when being anywhere except in the sun felt like a sin, and I remember reading that line and thinking that it put into words something that I’d always known without knowing.

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Through The Looking Glass: Ask Me Something

May 30, 2018

I ask a lot of questions. My friends frequently joke that I “grill” them with all that I’m wondering about.

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Through The Looking Glass: A Campus Of Conformity

By Caroline Berens | May 30, 2018

Ever since I was a child, in response to practically any concern I have, my parents have always given consistent, simple advice: be yourself.

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Through The Looking Glass: An Alternative Definition of Passion

By Ziqin Yuan | May 30, 2018

As of Week Nine my senior spring, it has finally hit me that I will soon be leaving this place for good.

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Through The Looking Glass: A Billion Dartmouths

By Parker Richards | May 30, 2018

Believing in a defined Dartmouth is a flaw on our campus and one almost every student sinks into.

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The Waiting Game

By Cristian Cano | May 23, 2018

2:40 p.m. I step into the main line of King Arthur Flour, placing myself right behind the other three customers extending outside of the entrance.

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Through The Looking Glass: Growing Pains — Developing Through Discomfort

By Michael Cobb | May 23, 2018

“We have some bad news for you all. This is never an easy thing for us to do.” It’s freshman fall.

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Looking Into Last Chances

By Nikhita Hingorani and Katherine Cline | May 23, 2018

Dartmouth is a school full of traditions and these traditions are what bind our community tightly together.

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Editor's Note: Time Flies

By Marie-Capucine Pineau-Valencienne and Carolyn Zhou | May 22, 2018

Time flies when you’re having fun. Or in our case, time flies when your term is packed back-to-back with midterms, meetings, lunch dates and midnight cram sessions.

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Catalytic Rearrangement Of Absolute Time

By Laura Jeliazkov | May 22, 2018

ABSTRACT: The purpose of this research is to further develop the theory of the origins of relative time, which can be synthesized from absolute time.

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Shoot For The Moon: Organizing David Harbour's '97 Visit

By Veselin Nanov | May 22, 2018

I have a cheat sheet that helped me trace David Harbour ’97’s theatrical journey through Dartmouth and back to the stage of Spaulding Auditorium last Sunday.

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Editor's Note: Blessings In Disguise

By Marie-Capucine Pineau-Valencienne and Carolyn Zhou | May 16, 2018

Carolyn: I was disappointed to find out that I was randomly assigned to live in the River — notoriously known as one of the worst dorms because of its distant location from the center of campus.

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Gain Through Pain: Dartmouth Athletes and Injuries

By Aidan Chisholm | May 16, 2018

They’ve made it. More than a decade of practice, games, tournaments and tryouts, and they have made it.

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