Friday, November 9, 2007

Nomads and Loners: The D-Plan Lifestyle

By Lense Gebre-Mariam, The Dartmouth Staff

During sophomore and junior years, many of us become D-plan nomads, uprooting our lives every three months and trotting to new exotic and urban locales across the globe. Some of the students left on campus can find their social scenes a little lonely; this fall, almost half of the juniors are off campus or abroad, and even more will be away in the winter if past trends continue, according to numbers from the Office of Residential Life. More »

Moving out tips: Scale down, pack up, get out

By Joanna Patterson, The Dartmouth Staff

Moving out is hard to do. I'm not talking about the emotional difficulty of letting go of a meaningful space. The physical act of getting packed up and shipping out is tough stuff. More »

Traitor for a term: Abroad without Dartmouth

By Jean Ellen Cowgill, The Dartmouth Staff

My rush conversations sophomore year were ... complicated. Once the sister of X sorority and I got past the standard complications of my double name (Yeah ... I go by both ... no ... no hyphen ... yeah. It's weird), the conversation inevitably turned to where I had been the previous fall. More »

Alex Got In Trouble: The Freedom

By Alex Howe, The Dartmouth Staff

In the weeks leading to the beginning of my sentence, I contemplated the romantic write-a-novel-while-in-jail idea. One afternoon I watched a Tupac documentary on VH1. He was interviewed about his own incarceration. More »

Maggie's cheat sheet: 35 years, a history lesson

By Maggie Severns-O'Neill, The Dartmouth Staff

After my high school graduation, my uncle gave me a card with a black-and-white photo of a grizzly man drinking Budweiser and ice fishing on the cover. "Beware," he had written on it, "...the Dartmouth Man!" I remember laughing when he gave it to me; I think it's still propped on my desk at home. More »

Hating the mainstream does not make you cool

By Divya Gunasekaran

All of the cool kids are anti-conformists, all of the anti-conformists wear Converse sneakers and none of the cool, Converse-wearing anti-conformists listen to mainstream music. That would be an unforgivable sin. That would warrant automatic expulsion from the anti-conformist club. More »

Mirror Picks

By The Dartmouth Staff

Book: "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer From the first paragraph, the reader is sucked into nine-year-old Oskar's world of random quandaries and silly adventures. Through photographs, illustrations and exquisite prose, the book manages to talk about post-9/11 New York City in a relatable, personal and heart-wrenchingly beautiful manner while still retaining its protagonist's innocent humor. -- Emily Hirshey More »

Overheard

By Compiled by Anna Stone and Alysia Harris, The Dartmouth Staff

Boy 1 at Foco: "In Miami we kiss girls on the cheek when we say hello." Boy 2: "That's gross, bro! What if there's, like, fecal matter on her face?!" More »

Style Maven

By Jean Luo, The Dartmouth Staff

Dunia Rkein '08 Dunia's monochromatic color scheme draws attention to the subtle graphics on her blouse and the contrasting textures in her outfit. If I were to add a Dartmouth eighth, it'd be ... "Pool, duh. Rumor has it there's a secret entrance that they leave unlocked. More »

Style Maverick

By Jean Luo, The Dartmouth Staff

Alex Cook '09 Alex wears a grey cardigan with contrasting navy trim and buttons, and accessorizes with a matching brilliantly white smile and Brooks Brothers button-up. More »