Reuniting With Your Alter Ego
If coming to Dartmouth has taught me anything, it’s that people can quickly change gears to achieve a goal.
If coming to Dartmouth has taught me anything, it’s that people can quickly change gears to achieve a goal.
Fresh snow covers the ground as the Dartmouth Coach pulls up in front of the Hanover Inn. I step off the bus, grab my suitcase and trek toward my dorm.
Winterim is a beast of a break. At six weeks long, it can feel drawn-out, especially for first-year students coming off of their inaugural 10 week term.
Welcome back to campus. We all return weary from all the reunions that occurred over break: reunions with our high school friends (or avoiding reunions with our former classmates), reunions with family members and reunions with our home selves — less or more wild versions of the person we are at Dartmouth.
Cris explores how artists know when to put down their brushes, pens or cameras and walk away from a work of art.
Janice discovers a book of letters from a Dartmouth student who died tragically in 1934. She finds parallels between Dartmouth then and Dartmouth now.
Eliza Jane interviews marathon runners and members of the Dartmouth Triathlon Team to understand their motivations.
Annie talks to English majors and English professor Barbara Will about why the endings of certain literary works haunt people after initial readings.
Zach analyzes the meanings and choices behind senior musicians and their final performances.
Dartmouth's women's rugby team finds that a big part of its success comes from building a community.
For the last time, your three Mirror editors write their editors' note, this time about the "Finales" theme.
Jaden profiles professor Gabriele Dietze's course, "Queer Visual Culture."
In Madison's architecture class, she designed a dress out of plastic cups to symbolize the waste generated by both Dartmouth's social scene and the fashion industry.
Annie talks to psychology professor Janine Scheiner about psychopaths and sociopaths, some of whom are still undiagnosed.
The Mirror Staff answers questions about costumes, hidden talents and invisibility.
On their final Halloween night at Dartmouth, your Mirror editors describe their ingenious costumes that align with the theme, masks.
Saba photographs her interpretation of this week's theme, masks.
Eliza Jane analyzes how silence in conversation is perceived differently across cultures.
Maria considers ways in which students stay healthy during the term through yoga, meditation and mindfulness.