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The Dartmouth
November 30, 2024 | Latest Issue
The Dartmouth
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Hometown Hanover

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The first time I said I was "a '10" I was 15, hungover and at my dad's 25th reunion, at a session on "How to Get into Dartmouth," more precisely.



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Overheards

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'10: That's why you write a thesis, so you can make shit up. '11 Guy: The results were wrong or something because of the, uh...placenta effect. '11Guy to '11 Girl: Let's go back to single sex education...(thinks)...actually I probably wouldn't have come here.



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Editor's Note

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Since it's the senior issue and everyone is writing a reflection on their college career, here's my own self-serving trip down memory lane: I wasn't real sad about the '08s graduating as a freshmen I was too caught up in the thought of spending a summer with my friends from home to really care.


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An open letter to my 14-year-old sister

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Dear Cherie, You've only entered high school this year, so throughout my four years at Dartmouth, you've always been a bit too young for me to be 100 percent honest with you about College with a capital C.



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Lessons Learned (and Not)

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If I let this opportunity to make a pun about using this story for The MIRROR as an opportunity to REFLECT slip through my fingers I will never forgive myself.


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Popping the Bubble

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I'm about to give my last few tours of this campus which means that there are precious few opportunities for someone to fulfill my dream and pull off the next Drinking-Time-level prank with my tour group as the unsuspecting audience (June 2nd, 11:15 a.m.


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The DDS Detective

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Every person has that one random summer job he or she is constantly trying to forget about. You know what I'm talking about that time when you gave Duck Tours alongside a group of elderly women, cleaned animal feces out of the cages of your city zoo or served as a branch manager for a local McDonald's (Yes Danny, I saw the pictures). In other words, you'd just rather not talk about it.


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Pondering the Purpose of Dartmouth

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You are not special. You do not leave a big hole. They dig a hole and put you in it. Those words, spoken impossibly elegantly by Garrison Keillor ushered me into my senior year at Dartmouth.



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Popping the Bubble

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So today I experienced a perfect succession of blitzes in my inbox. The first was from my mother, informing me that she wanted to send some of my columns TO MY GRANDMA and inquiring if this week's installment would be "appropriate" to include in the collection.


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Reboot and Rally

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It has been over six months since Verizon released the Motorola Droid, and that makes it a senior citizen in technology terms (or maybe just a '10). That is probably why Verizon recently announced the new HTC Droid Incredible.


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The Hilarious and the Horrible

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It's always scary to wake up after a formal and not remember how it went. It's natural to assume (pray?) that if you don't remember events that occurred the night before they must not count.


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Overheards

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'12 Guy: I'm not trying to be belligerent, but I just am. '13 Girl: Let's turn walking to the River into a drinking game.


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A Date in the Hand is Worth Two on the Bus?

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As senior Spring draws to an end and formal season begins, I find myself approaching my 13th and final Dartmouth formal unless you want to invite me to a 14th or 15th?! With so many formals, finding a proper date can be quite an adventure.