That's So High School
If we're going to take pop culture portrayals as any indication, high school tends to go one of two ways for most people.
If we're going to take pop culture portrayals as any indication, high school tends to go one of two ways for most people.
Nathan Yeo / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Reese Ramponi / The Dartmouth Staff High school is a much more controversial theme than one might initially think.
Through the low branches of the trees that line the road at the entrance to my high school lacrosse field, I see Aaron waiting for me on a patch of thick grass.
This is the story of the blackout train. "I peed myself last night... Not really... Well, kinda." I love hearing stuff like that.
Almost every high school athlete faces a major decision sometime in his or her career: Do I want to be a collegiate athlete?
It is no new phenomenon that athletes tend to stick together like glue. Of course, it makes sense with their demanding schedules, intense discipline and mutual understanding of what it means to be on a team.
When my close friend and lacrosse teammate decided to try out for a play this past fall, I responded with earnest, if cautious, encouragement.
Nathan Yeo / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Jamie Mercado / The Dartmouth As a whole, we would say that our student body is a pretty athletic group.
If you frequent Dartmouth Gender Sexuality XYZ meetings, talk with an OUTreach Peer Mentor or visit the Rainbow Room in Robo, you will encounter a warm, welcoming atmosphere for LGBT students.
While Dartmouth may not have gained its renown from its varsity teams, there is something to be said about athletics at Dartmouth.
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At Dartmouth, or really any and all colleges where socializing often involves drinking, student-athletes are confronted with balancing drinking habits and their athletic performance.
Athletes on Non-Athletes: "What the hell do nonners do with their time during the day? Why do they need to pull all-nighters, ever?" --Christina Danosi '13, Women's Tennis "Society tells me I'm not an athlete because [fencing] is not a varsity' sport, but I feel like an athlete because I'm competing at a high level for the school.
At a school where people throw themselves wholly into extracurricular activities and the average student is fairly active, varsity sports are bound to be a popular activity of choice.
This is the story of playing in traffic. I have been working on the Internet for a long time.
Choosing my DOC Trip freshman year involved being honest with myself about my wilderness skill level.
We take athletics seriously at Dartmouth. How seriously? Enough to devote our resources to sustain 32 varsity teams.
'13 Girl 1: This place offered me a job, but it only pays minimum wage.'13 Girl 2: That's an hour's work for a KAF caesar salad ... without chicken. '13 Male Athlete 1 to '13 Male Athlete 2: Have you seen "The OC?" Because that show changed my life. '13 Guy to '13 Girl: Aggressive crop top.
During high school, some of us came straight home from school and collapsed into ourselves away from the gaze of our teachers.
When I heard that The Mirror this week was about sports at Dartmouth, I thought it was some sort of oversight that an article about intramural sports wasn't included on the storyboard.