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Through the Looking Glass: Lessons Learned from the Dartmouth Community

By Kathryn Sachs | June 9, 2018

When I was looking at colleges, I asked current students a lot of questions. Their responses were plentiful, varied and usually helpful.

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Mirror

Knowing Nothing

By Ray Lu | June 9, 2018

During an especially introspective stretch of time, my 15-year-old self jotted down several quotes that fell within the boundaries of what I perceived to be profound.

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Mirror

Reevaluating the Victory Lap

By Phil Rasansky | June 9, 2018

I remember the first time Dartmouth felt like home. I remember the day — Jan. 3, 2015. I remember my outfit — a recently-bought wool sweater littered with pretzel crumbs.

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Mirror

On Taking Up Space

By Erin Lee | June 9, 2018

College is weird. Part extended summer camp, part boarding school for semi-grownups, part elitist neoliberal institution, part academia machine, college means different things to different people, but no one really knows what it’s going to be like until they’re there.

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Mirror

Embracing Identity

By Kourtney Kawano | June 9, 2018

A writer for The Dartmouth once joked that staffers only know two things about me: that I’m from Hawaiʻi and that I have consistently arrived late to campus each term.

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Mirror

Through The Looking Glass: In Defense Of The Comfort Zone

By Haley Gordon | June 2, 2018

When I walked away from my parents on Robinson Hall’s lawn for Dartmouth Outing Club First-Year Trips, laden with a heavy backpack leftover from my father’s Eagle Scout days and several items of mild contraband, I knew that I wouldn’t be talking for a while.

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Mirror

Through The Looking Glass: Thanks For Saying Hi

By Alma Wang | April 25, 2018

By some mishap I’ve ended up here: senior spring, less than seven weeks left until I lose student discounts and access to the Cube and the Onion — not to mention other trivial points, like lifelong friends and alumni connections and what not.

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Mirror

Through The Looking Glass: Little House Life

By Riley Carbone | March 28, 2018

I don’t remember when I first read Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House series. I can picture the nine-volume paperback box set, each cover a different pastel gingham, sitting on the lower left of the downstairs bookcases as if it has always been there.

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Ttlg

Through the Looking Glass: DDS — Dartmouth Duck Syndrome

By Sarah Salzman | February 21, 2018

 For those of you who haven’t heard of “duck syndrome,” it is a concept often applied to college students who appear calm on the surface but are frantically suffering underneath.

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Winter Carnival Issue

Through the Looking Glass: Going to France to see Hanover

By Charlie Blatt | February 9, 2018

During my sophomore spring, I spent 10 weeks alongside 15 other Dartmouth students on the Paris Foreign Study Program.

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Mirror

TTLG: 18 from an '18

By Emma Sklarin | January 3, 2018

Before my first Dartmouth winter, I’d seen snow exactly four times. Five if you count the only time it snowed in my lifetime in San Francisco: Dec.

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TTLG: The Green Mask

By Madison McIlwain | November 1, 2017

In Madison's architecture class, she designed a dress out of plastic cups to symbolize the waste generated by both Dartmouth's social scene and the fashion industry.

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TTLG: Makeshift Homes

By Eliana Mallory | October 18, 2017

Eliana Mallory '18 discusses her off-term experience while interning at a refugee camp in France.

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Homecoming Issue

Through the Looking Glass: Becoming a Lone Pine

By Allie Reichert | October 6, 2017

It’s a crisp fall afternoon. The leaves crunch beneath my feet, and my breath trails behind me in large puffs.

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Through the Looking Glass: You're Just As Weird As I Am

By Chae Kim | September 13, 2017

Chae Kim '18 describes her interpretation of many American aspects after growing up in South Korea.

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Through the Looking Glass: Summer Lovin'

By Stephanie Everett | June 29, 2017

It’s sunny. It’s relaxed. It’s camp. It’s misunderstood by high school friends. It’s the pinnacle of Dartmouth traditions.

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C&R 2017

Through the Looking Glass: Worth It

By Grace Miller | June 9, 2017

The best advice I ever got before coming to college was this: for the first couple of months, you probably are not going to love it, in fact you might hate it.

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Special Issue

Through The Looking Glass: A Cure for Phantom Pain

By Alexandra Pattillo | May 19, 2017

It’s 5:30 p.m. on an especially warm spring night. Sunlight’s last rays cast across Mink Brook.

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Ttlg

Through the Looking Glass: Voices in Film

By Cecilia Torres | May 17, 2017

After working for the Ambulante film festival in Mexico, Cecilia explores the importance of telling stories through film.

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Through the Looking Glass: 'Feminist Shakespeare' at Dartmouth

By Kelly Gaudet | May 3, 2017

Kelly Gaudet '17 describes her experience as a writer and director of "Feminist Shakespeare."

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