Do smartphones make you smarter?
Correction Appended Why are Blackberries, iPhones and pocket PCs called "smartphones"? Cell phone companies say it's because they can make you smarter.
Correction Appended Why are Blackberries, iPhones and pocket PCs called "smartphones"? Cell phone companies say it's because they can make you smarter.
Correction Appended Can you believe that cell phone use wasn't all that popular just a few short years ago?
Advancement of communication technologies has become a completely paradoxical endeavor. We continually strive to find new and innovative ways to provide channels through which people can connect with one another, so that any face-to-face interaction is completely unnecessary.
Remember the glorious days of Spring? The beginning of the term when the Green was no longer a vast tundra that you dreaded crossing to get to 7:45 a.m.
Nothing means summer is coming more clearly than the voice of Joe Castiglione, the announcer for the Boston Red Sox.
Doug Gonzalez / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Doug Gonzalez / The Dartmouth Senior Staff I was a little harsh on Collis stir-fry last week.
I have and will always have a soft spot for Palm and its devices. Palm is the company that made the legendary PalmPilot and it was also largely responsible for popularizing smartphones with the venerable Treo.
Stephanie Han / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Stephanie Han / The Dartmouth Senior Staff I'm no Rip Van Winkle but I feel like I've just woken up into a bizarre alternate world of smartphone dominance.
So I've been sitting here on the first floor of Sigma Delt for about three hours playing Bejeweled, Blitz, on Facebook staring desperately at a depressingly blank Word document.
In the past few years, everyone seems to have gone gaga over fancy acrobatics shows like Cirque du Soleil.
It is shockingly difficult to get people at Dartmouth to talk about w33d. Which is weird. There are so many reasons that it should be easier to find a student to interview about "the legitimate side of smoking," such as:-We go to school in New Hampshire a two hour drive from Burlington.
When people think of the weed culture on campus, their first tendency is usually to compare it to the drinking culture.
There's a commonly held consensus that there is a massive College taskforce that is charged with monitoring our blitzes.
I would like to start off by stating that it is blatantly unfair that devotees of one certain substance get an entire official holiday devoted to celebrating their major form of recreation.
In honor of the theme we decided to try and host our own Ganja Olympics with Justin Bieber, Kanye West and Perez Hilton.
I had previously decided to write this week's column about the 10 things I love most about Dartmouth College, and I returned home this afternoon to do just that. But it was a windy day, an incredibly windy day, and when I got back to my room the breeze had ripped through my open window and torn down the lobster-print sheets I have tacked up as a makeshift curtain.
So maybe you've had a bad day with Madame Troll of the econ department. Or maybe you just realized, like 98.5 percent of your fellow classmates, you really do suck at organic chemistry. Well, that blows.
I lift the vaporizer's whip, coiled up like a translucent plastic snake, to my lips and pull. A gust of hot green air inflates my lungs.
Doing the actual Dartmouth Seven is hard. In addition to having to find a willing partner, it requires some serious planning (when do the lights in front of Dartmouth Hall turn off?