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What Would Your Parents Say?

By Sydney House | September 24, 2015

We all adjust and grow at different rates, but it’s undeniable that each student’s unique upbringing plays a significant role in how they adapt to his or her new environment. After all, for many of us, our parents were the ones who spent 18 years grooming us to be responsible, trustworthy adults. Not all parents are created equally, however, and some will play much more active roles in the lives of their children than others.

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Mirror

A Ring by Spring

By Caroline Berens | September 24, 2015

Before walking into The Mirror’s weekly story assignment meeting last week, the so-called “M.R.S. Degree” was a completely unfamiliar concept to me. The meaning wasn’t exactly hard to discern after an introduction to the idea from my editors and a few context clues, but even then I was confused — does such a thing still exist in our seemingly modern and progressive times?

First-generation student Yadira Torres '19 is figuring out how to transition to college.
Mirror

First in the Family

By Julianna Docking | September 24, 2015

I sat down with several first-generation students and, predictably, found that there was no universal answer to this question. Instead, I heard students’ remarkably distinct stories, with common threads woven throughout, detailing parents’ sacrifices, students’ motivation to achieve and the mutual desire in both parents and students to understand each other’s divergent experiences.

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Endowment sees 8.3 percent return

By The Dartmouth Senior Staff | September 24, 2015

The College saw an 8.3 percent return on its endowment for the 2015 fiscal year, the College announced last night in a press release. The endowment saw 19.2 percent growth for the 2014 fiscal year, 12.1 percent for 2013, 5.8 percent in 2012 and 18.4 percent in 2011.

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Student Spotlight: Adenrele Adewusi ’15

By Haley Gordon | September 22, 2015

When Adenrele Adewusi ’15 stepped onto campus her freshman fall, she felt that she only saw three academic options for students — “pre-med, pre-law and pre-Wall Street.” Adewusi went with the third option, and she planned to leave the College with a degree in mathematics.

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