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December 26, 2025 | Latest Issue
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The College on the hill meets Hollywood

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Animal House is easily one of the best-known Dartmouth media references of all time, but it's difficult to truly appreciate how much movies like "Animal House" have affected the way outsiders and students perceive our school.




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Frosty's Corner

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Truth: Anonymous @6:24 p.m. You need to get a life. No, seriously you do. Either that or you need to grow a pair. I'm serious.


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Editor's Note

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Deidra Willis / The Dartmouth Staff How would you explain Dartmouth to someone who's never played pong with a paddle or walked to class in -20 degree weather?


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I wrote this at 3 a.m.

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Graduation looming on the horizon makes a girl think about her values. If you haven't noticed that yet, please ruminate on that last sentence and try to mentally estimate how many times you've read that sappy shit almost word-for-word before.


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Majorly Difficult Majors

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I am an English major. I am English major because I like to write (revelatory!) and because I don't particularly like to endure inhuman levels of academic agony.


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Editor's Note

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It's Winter term again, which means that in a few short weeks, '13s will be faced with the monumental task of filling out a deceptively simple little blank card. Despite the pressure, it's important to keep in mind that your major will not define your Dartmouth career that's the beauty of a liberal arts education, after all.


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Overheards

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'14 Girl: Is the walk of shame less shameful if you do it in a onesie? '12 KDE about a new pledge: Isn't she gorgeous?


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Modify This

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Let's say you have the aspirations of a double major but the laziness of the average, single-majoring college student.


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I wrote this at 3 a.m.

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As long as there are words to express human sentiment, there will be people trying to find ways to maximize efficiency of communication, to streamline our language into nearly unrecognizable shorthand like "u down 2 hu l8r?" Of course, slang has been culturally universal for centuries, as each society develops easy shortcuts to understand each other.




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The Light at the End of the Tunnel

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I am terrified about the prospect of a senior Spring without Homeplate. Terrified. Absolutely terrified. I've had lunch after 12s at Homeplate every Monday/Wednesday/Friday since freshman Spring.



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Frosty's Corner

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Myth: It's never too late to change your major. Throughout my Dartmouth career, I have experienced a wide range of academic crises.



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Dartmouth's My Favorite

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Readers, hi. You need to know that I cannot coddle you this term. The "OMG HAY!" of yesteryear was from a different me, a warmer me, a me that proclaimed "Dartmouth's my favorite!" with sickening sincerity.