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January 9, 2014

'15 Girl: I think I did poorly on the SATs because I started making patterns with my answers. '15 Girl on the hook up culture: It's just so weird that two strangers just get naked and touch each other. '16 Girl: I think I just broke up with him over Snapchat. '17 Girl: Bridgewater don't come close to the emotional abuse we put each other under. '17 Guy by grill: What's line for a burger? '14 Guy: I have no idea what a provost is. Blitz overheards to mirror@thedartmouth.com.

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What Have We Done

By Seanie Civale and Amanda Smith | January 9, 2014

Winterim was once only three weeks long, and those three weeks were completely torturous after freshman fall. Jan. 3, 2011, the day of our 11W reunion, seemed better than Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year all wrapped into one. We were hyper-aware of all the deficiencies of our home existence — no friends, no four-day-a-week sleepovers, no weird semi-intellectual conversations with strangers. We withered away without them, waiting for 11W like it was the only thing keeping us alive. Seanie often watched Dartmouth webcam’s live feed of the Green with a guarded secrecy that made her feel like she was doing something illegal rather than just pathetic. Amanda alternated between hibernating and eating ice cream.

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In Case You Were Wondering

By Katie Sinclair | January 9, 2014

In case you were wondering, we have now marked approximately 2,014 rotations of the earth around the sun since the birth of some guy in Bethlehem. I say “approximately” because evidence suggests that Jesus was born between 7 and 2 B.C., so the count’s a little off. We could just call it “Common Era,” satisfying all non-Christians, though I know Dionysius Exiguus, the monk who coined “anno Domini” in 525 A.D., would be just a tad disappointed.

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Editors' Notes

By Amelia Acosta and Tyler Bradford | November 14, 2013

Our final goodbye

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Trending @ Dartmouth

By Amelia Acosta and Tyler Bradford | November 14, 2013

HOME MEMOIRS:Literally what is "Three For Ship?" Why is its website so confusing? DICK'S HOUSE:While there is, by definition, nothing trendy about Dick's House, the difficulty one has getting an appointment seems to imply it's the hottest spot on campus. COURSE REJECTION:Somehow not getting into the classes you wanted stings almost as much as getting rejected for formal.

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The Known and Never Known

By Alejandra Herrera and Marian Lurio | November 14, 2013

As the fall winds down, we find ourselves growing more and more nostalgic of our time here. They say you get wiser with age, but as the sun sets on our Dartmouth careers, we feel we are becoming less knowledgeable and less relevant. We did some research and uncovered dirt on aspects of Dartmouth that ’17s will never know, as well as things only they (so far) have experienced.

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Overheards

November 14, 2013

The Dartmouth '16 Guy: I'm not really into the party scene, but those frisbee girls really know how to throw down. '17 Girl: All of you New Yorkers have sticks up your asses.

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A Room With Many Views

By Maddie Brown and Maggie Shields | November 14, 2013

The 1902 Room seemed like the perfect place for me to kill some time. I didn’t want the stuffiness of Sanborn, the facetime of First Floor Berry or the loneliness of the stacks, and the 1902 Room was just there. Beckoning me. I plop myself down in one of the 77 chairs and pretended to do work for quite some time.

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What Have We Done

By Amanda Smith and Seanie Civale | November 14, 2013

Hello. Merry finals season. Happy Thanksgiving. Merry Christmas/Chanukah/Kwanzaa. Happy New Year. Good winterim. The next time you hear from us, all of this will be over, grades will be in, turkeys eaten in celebration of things that should not be celebrated, presents unwrapped, resolutions made and resolutions shattered.

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The Alternative Seven

By Luke McCann and Natalie Van Brunt | November 14, 2013

A few weeks ago, as I walked home from Collis, I witnessed a couple in the middle of the Green. Fully going at it. At 9 p.m. Not a single passerby intervened, giggled or ogled. Actually, no one so much as flinched. This, Dartmouth, is our cry for help.

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In Case You Were Wondering

By Katie Sinclair | November 14, 2013

In case you were wondering, ping pong, or table tennis, is probably older than you think it is — some form of it has existed since the mid-1800s. Modern paddles and balls have been around since the 1950s, and by all accounts, some variation of pong has been played at Dartmouth since then. I could have made my last column of the term be something deep and insightful, but instead I have chosen to write a treatise on pong.

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Editor's Note

By Amelia Acosta and Tyler Bradford | November 7, 2013

This week we explore the experiences of students whose lives are at cultural crossroads and the ways that students deal with long-distance relationships, both of which can evoke that same sense of confusion.

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Overheards

November 7, 2013

'16: I've tried Band-Aids, I've tried condoms — nothing's working dude! '15 Guy to '14 Girl with hammer: Why weren't you Miley Cyrus for Halloween?

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TTLG: A Spot on the Continuum

By Kyle McGoey | November 7, 2013

As I sat in a meeting at my fraternity the other night, slowly sinking into the leather couch, the house’s president posed a question that, simple and obvious though it might seem, really made me think. “Why did you join a fraternity?”

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I Mustache You A Question

By Lindsay Keare | November 7, 2013

No Shave November combines philanthropy and facial hair.

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Exploring Multiculturalism

November 7, 2013

Language, culture and past experience all intersect in the snow globe world of Dartmouth.

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What Have We Done?

By Amanda Smith and Seanie Civale | November 7, 2013

Though the origins of the What Have We Done blog date back to freshman year, the truth is, the What Have We Dones began the second we started forming personalities.

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In Case You Were Wondering

By Katie Sinclair | November 7, 2013

In case you were wondering, daylight savings time, which ended last Sunday, was first proposed by Georges Vernon Hudson in 1896, not, according to popular belief, by our buddy Ben Franklin.

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This Is Just What I Look Like

By Caren Duane | November 7, 2013

You know that person. You pass them on the street, you sit next to them in class, you see them in FoCo. You are scared of them. You have never actually talked to them, and you might not even know their name, but you sense they are an angry creature, possibly without a soul, who hates everyone.