Whenthe news about Sarah Devens sent shock waves through the campus a couple of weeks ago, I was paralyzed, and for more than just a brief moment. Although the flag was lowered to half-mast the next day, students went to their classes and met at Collis and saw movies just like any other day.
The top ten characteristics of premeds: we suffer low grades, we do not have a social life, we whine way too much; we do not respect humanities and social science majors, we spend all our vacations working in a lab or a hospital, orgo orgo orgo, we enjoy Kresge more than our rooms, we never get to take fun classes, we can't think about an FSP and we stress about MCATs and applications only to be rejected from most schools to which we apply. With such a merry depiction of the life of the premed student, it seems insane that so many take the path of premedical preparation at Dartmouth.
Onlya few days ago President Clinton congratulated the graduating class and a thousand students said good-bye to Old Dartmouth.