One of the most interesting women I have ever met has spent 20 years of her life working with undocumented immigrants at the border of the United States and Mexico.
Producing an entirely student-run work of Shakespeare takes the Dartmouth Rude Mechanicals two weeks of editing the First Folio, 78 hours in rehearsal and performance over the course of five weeks, four 10 p.m.
Of all the lessons I have learned at Dartmouth, the most important may be: Try to help change the world for the better; don't try to save it. The difference between facilitating change and attempting to rescue the world from its ills may seem largely semantic, but there is a difference in meaning, too.
Two years ago, on my Theater FSP in London, I learned that I did not make a very good clown. What clown class did introduce me to was an idea common to many forms of improvised acting: the importance of saying "yes." The idea is that by opening yourself up to new avenues for exploration you not only push your character (or clown) in ways that are more interesting for the audience, but you are also able to react and more fully work with a scene partner.
Over the past week, the "Report of the Alumni Council Committee to Support Greek Letter Organizations" which was sponsored by the Alumni Council to examine Greek Life and offer suggestions for improvement has been a topic of discussion on the executive board of my own sorority and others on campus.
Somewhere between losing my Dartmouth ID card for the second time in a week, blitzing an old internship boss for a letter of recommendation, meeting to discuss the Dartmouth Rude Mechanical's fall show and worrying that this term has become too crazy before classes even begun, I went to check my Hinman Box.
Frankly, there has been a lot of criticism about many of College President Jim Yong Kim's initiatives that focus heavily on the sciences and graduate studies.
My great-great-aunt Frances died last month at the age of 108. She was born in a time when horse carts were still common and, in her life, saw not only the emergence of cars but airplanes, space shuttles, radios, televisions, cell phones and computers.
It is almost hard to imagine, but throughout the United States, people are denied the right to visit their loved ones in the hospital.
Aryeh Drager / The Dartmouth Staff Aryeh Drager / The Dartmouth Staff At the very end of a tour, College tour guides are encouraged to explain why they came to Dartmouth.