Editor's Note
As much as we love Hanover, we also love to get the hell out of here. Studying, volunteering, eating snails -- anything to leave our tiny campus and see the world. More »
Friday, April 25, 2008
Abroad Awry
Trips abroad are an essential part of the Dartmouth experience for many students. Students return from Foreign Study Programs and Language Study Abroads with tans, souvenirs and stories galore of their amazing and rewarding foreign adventures. More »
Leaving America to Help Others, Find Yourself
"Though 'round the girdled earth they roam..." Dartmouth students tend to get around; it's right there in our alma mater. About half of the student body spends time on an LSA/FSP or exchange program, but a significant amount instead choose to spend their time volunteering. More »
Ask a Professor: Raul Bueno-Chavez
Raul Bueno-Chavez is a professor of Spanish language and literature. He received his Ph.D. from the University of San Agustin, Peru. Some of his most popular courses include "One Hundred Years of Solitude and Latin American Culture" (SPAN 65). Last year Bueno led the Foreign Study Program to Buenos Aires, Argentina. More »
Taking Credit: Study Abroad Sans Dartmouth
Last term I lived with my friend, Danny Wiebicke '10. Cat Emil '10 and Paula Sen '10 lived right next door. I took Econ 39, a class for my government major and got my art distrib out of the way. But I wasn't enrolled in the College and I was nowhere near Hanover. More »
Dressing the Part: How to be an American in Paris without Looking Like One
Every year thousands of college students leave behind their mundane university existences and head to Europe, eager to shake off the doldrums of American life for the exciting sophistication of London, Paris and Rome. It is viewed as a rite of passage. As the cliche goes, Europe is where sheltered young Americans go to "get cultured." More »
Point: Study Abroad
The study abroad experience makes your years at Dartmouth worthwhile. There, I've said it. It's just undeniable fact, a kernel of truth that can only be known by the select few -- or rather the majority of Dartmouth students -- who spend 10 weeks somewhere else for a change. More »
Counterpoint: Stay in Hanover
When I first sunk my bid to come to Dartmouth, I was convinced that I would spend at least one of my terms abroad. After all, as I had heard from tour guides, pamphlets, the Internet, et cetera, that the D-plan makes it sooo easy to travel! The summer before I arrived at Dartmouth, I didn't ponder what I would choose as a major, but where I would choose to travel during my time away from Hanover. Italy? South Africa? The world seemed like my oyster. More »
Breaking Through: Senior Spring Break-Up Blitz
Oh the joys of senior spring. It's a time to celebrate your reckless youth one last time before the ruthless thrust into that proverbial belly of the beast: the "real world." While many seniors will spend the last few months carefree, skipping their ENGS 5 class every day, lounging out in the sun and stumbling along nostalgia lane in an alcohol-induced haze, there is also another, slightly more panicked group. This is a group you may find nervously canoodling in the Novack breakfast line, or self-hazing at a romantic Canoe Club Dinner. Bachelorettes beware, it's the "still dating the same girl from sophomore fall" crew. More »
Falling in Love with the Green Again
Well, my friends, it's back. The Green has returned. We've stomped across the snow and slush for two terms now. For months, the large expanse in the middle of campus represented merely a faster, albeit icier and muddier path from the Hop to Baker. Do I walk straight across and put the water resistance/traction of my boots to the test? Or do I slip into my 10A five minutes late? These were the only questions in which that rectangular tract of land was concerned. More »
Reboot and Rally
Last term, I wrote a piece about the Asus Eee PC, a tiny Linux laptop with a seven-inch screen that starts at $300. Next month, Asus is updating the Eee with a larger nine-inch screen, Windows XP and FingerGlide -- their unfortunately named version of Apple's multi-touch trackpad, not some new type of interactive porn. The new version of the Eee will also have more storage space, like 12GB or 20GB of flash storage. This new version is set to launch May 12 and will cost $549. More »
Sunshine Blotter
I, Rembert Browne, am 98% sure I suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder. I know this because this past week -- my horrendous midterms week -- I have never been happier in my life. Let me give you a few numbers: 69, 70, 73, 76, 77. Those are the grades of my first five orgo problem sets. They are also the high temperatures for the past five days. There has been all sun, no rain and very few clouds. And the Green. Don't even get me started on the current status of the Green. It looks like Bonaroo every day between 11:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. Everything about this school right now is amazing. More »
The DM Manual of Style
I have trouble focusing on class lately. Like many of you, I've found myself packing up my book bag with texts, notes, my computer and a beach towel to go and "do work" since it's gorgeous outside. I'll have my web browser open to Blackboard, I'll even have a PDF for my class available on another tab, but do I actually read? No. There will be no focusing out on the Green. And all the while, as I sip a smoothie and chat with friends, I'm wearing either jeans or a dress. Both options are pretty uncomfortable to wear outside for practical reasons: heat and indecent exposure, respectively. With such a sudden switch in the weather, my current wardrobe is insufficient; I have no shorts. More »
Mirror Picks
Office Citation Manager Citation Manager on previous versions of Office were fussy to use and hard to find. But when I started my most recent paper on Office 2008 for Mac (2007 for Windows), I typed all the information for my sources into the manager. Then, when I needed a footnote or parenthetical citation, all I had to do was double-click. The best part came when I finished my paper: With three clicks, I magically added a complete bibliography to the end. More »
Spotlight: Julia Marks '09
Julia Z. Marks '09 spent her off term last spring in Ghana as a volunteer intern for the Ghanaian Ministry of Finance. She explains how Ghana is both "familiar and exotic." More »
