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A Letter to My Freshman Fall Self: Reese

By Reese Ramponi | November 8, 2012

I don't really know how to write this letter. I would like to think that is because there is nothing I'd change about my last three years at Darmouth, but it is probably more that I'm not ready to admit the things that I really messed up.

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Take Me Back to Freshman Fall

By Iris Liu | November 8, 2012

From academics and extracurricular activities to dining preferences and exercise options (if any at all), Dartmouth students tend to be extremely divided in their interests.

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One Term Later...

By Mary Liza Hartong | November 8, 2012

Ah, freshman fall. Oh, to be that young and naive! Now that I am nearly finished with the first term of my college experience, I feel I can finally look back on these long gone months with nostalgia and clarity.

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Overheards

November 8, 2012

'14 Girl: It's like champong. At first, you're like, oh, this is yummy. Then you're like, oh, I'm on the floor. '13 Girl: Did you vote?'13 Guy: I voted absentee.

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Sporting Traditions

By Myrel Iturrey | November 1, 2012

It's hard to miss an athlete on campus. Armed with heavy duffle bags of gear and the latest Nike sneakers, it appears that Dartmouth varsity athletes have rightly squared themselves with popular media portrayals of the "college jock." Equally hard to miss are the throngs these athletes often form, whether they are eating in a dining hall or walking together to practice they represent a team in every sense of the word, and that includes their unique traditions. Julian Danziger '15, a member of the lightweight rowing team, said that the process of complete assimilation into a sports team is just that a process.

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Getting in Gear

By Sara Kassir | November 1, 2012

Courtesy of Rauner Special Collections Like a lot of traditions at Dartmouth, pledge gear isn't really comprehensible until you've spent some time on campus, and even then it doesn't always make sense.

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When the Old Traditions Fail

By Jack Boger | November 1, 2012

Marietta Smith / The Dartmouth Staff One of our alma mater's most memorable lines asks us to "set a watch, lest the old traditions fail." Yet throughout the College's history, many old traditions have indeed failed and passed on into the twilight of memory.

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Through the Looking Glass: The "Dartmouth Experience"

By Tommy Das | November 1, 2012

There is a certain atmosphere of paranoia that comes with your senior fall at Dartmouth. After three years of accepting this place as your home, you suddenly feel like you've been strapped to a time bomb, ticking away the precious seconds until someone hands you a diploma and your life explodes.

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The Dartmouth Bucket List

By Lauren Vespoli | November 1, 2012

Last weekend, there was a lot of self-imposed pressure on seniors to make the most of their last Homecoming as undergraduates to go out every night and have loads of fun, all while looking good in green the next day and attending every tailgate and sports game.

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Overheards

November 1, 2012

Unidentified male outside of FoCo: I actually tried shrooms as an appetite suppressor, you know, to, like, stop the munchies.

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Handing Down History

By Erin Landau | November 1, 2012

Ranging from trampolines to tutus, bequests are an important Dartmouth tradition that tie students to the past and unite us with the future, more closely connecting us with campus organizations as older members depart and allowing us to cement our own legacies when we are the ones leaving. Jake Osman '15, a member of this year's Vox Croo on for DOC First-Year Trips, said that the bequests he values most were ones that could be traced back the longest. "The flair bequests that we have are not so much personal to you as much as they are carrying on the legacy," Osman said.

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