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The Dartmouth
April 12, 2026
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Editor's Note

The 21st century. THE modern era. A time when most things are a click away, a time when waiting more than five minutes for any piece of information is too long, a time when self-promotion is embedded into our online presence.


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Bump: Valentina Garcia-Gonzalez '19, a journey

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While many students in Hanover may feel far removed from the current immigration debate occurring across America, seeing only an occasional social media post or a sporadic snippet from CNN in King Arthur Flour, for Valentina Garcia-Gonzalez ’19, these Senate floor speeches and presidential tweets carry significant weight.



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DNA For Sale?

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You can learn a lot from a cup of spit and $200. You can learn the precise breakdown of your racial heritage, how your hair curls, individualized weight loss strategies, whether you can smell asparagus in your pee, whether you might be susceptible to breast cancer or Alzheimer’s ... the list of potential knowledge goes on.







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Bump: Jamie Ma '20, flair on

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Combining her love for fashion and social media, Jamie Ma ’20 created a project last fall with a stated mission to explore “the personal and individual styles of the Dartmouth community.” Her Instagram page @dartmouthflair has since attracted over 800 followers and counting. Ma decided to model @dartmouthflair after a similar Instagram page that started at the boarding school she attended for high school.




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Math and Its Divisions

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At Dartmouth College, which offers more than 60 majors and numerous other minors, the mathematics department is largely an enigma for the hundreds of social science and humanities students who fulfill their single QDS distributive requirement and move on.





Emma Sklarin '18 (right) stands on a Winter Carnival snow sculpture with friends. 
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TTLG: 18 from an '18

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Before my first Dartmouth winter, I’d seen snow exactly four times. Five if you count the only time it snowed in my lifetime in San Francisco: Dec.