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Editor's Note: Each week, Amy examines a small group of students in order to understand the individual Dartmouth experience as part of a whole.
Editor's Note: Each week, Amy examines a small group of students in order to understand the individual Dartmouth experience as part of a whole.
"Here it comes the party of a lifetime/31st of December/Man I remember when the ball dropped for '90/Now it's 9-9/ten years behind me" -- Will Smith, "Will 2K" Time sure does fly by when Will Smith stops making music ... I don't really remember when the ball dropped for '90; I was two, and still couldn't walk, but I did know cursive.
Looking for a fresh way to celebrate the New Year in style? Ditch the same, old boring goals -- lose weight, spend less, exercise, eat healthy, get more sleep -- (you know you'll forget them by the end of the month, anyway) and make some fashion resolutions instead!
We hate New Year's Resolutions. We always make them, and then we break them, and then we just feel bad about ourselves when late December rolls around and we look back on another failed year.
By Rembert Browne This could be the end of the road for me. I'm a free agent in a month or so, and who knows if the '10s who start running The Dartmouth, America's Oldest College Newspaper, in January will renew my contract.
SAE Pledge: It's not a beer belly, it's a fuel tank for a sex machine. Chi Gam Pledge [to AD pledges]: Do you guys sleep with your dogs? AD Pledge: Uhh, I dunno. Chi Gam Pledge: Well you should -- they're adorable. Muslim 1: Where the heck are we gonna find a halal turkey? Muslim 2: We can fashion a turkey out of halal chicken nuggets! '10 Girl [passing Alpha Phi's bake sale]: Why aren't they selling pudding? '11 Girl 1: How did TriKap formal go? '11 Girl 2: Well I ended up at PhiDelt, so pretty well, I guess. '12 Girl: I feel like every time after a Heorot dance party, I don't want to wash my clothes, I want to burn them! Twin 1 [in Homeplate]: Tofu burritos? Twin 2: That goes against the fundamental nature of burritos! Twin 1: No Mexican eats tofu! '11 Guy: I had one thing that was good and pure in my life, and that was the pumpkin cheesecake ice cream! '12 Girl: Yeah, I haven't thrown up since I got here.
"Life means nothing without flair," Caroline Cima '10 proclaims. As a member of the rugby team and Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority, Caroline is always eager for flair-wear occasions.
Although my job might seem fairly easy, it actually requires a great deal of creative thought and planning.
I recently made a mistake while changing channels; somewhere between "Who Wants to Date my Grandmother?" and "True Life: I'm on MTV's True Life" -- I stumbled upon a Fox News briefing.
While attempting to define the word "flair," I found that Urban Dictionary is plagued with references to the cult classic "Office Space"(1999), which, according to many internet sources, first introduced the phrase "flair" into mainstream culture.
If you had told me three years ago that by senior fall I'd sit poised to write an article defaming flair, I would have screamed blasphemy.
By Eve Ahearn "Unlatching a trunk, the 21-year-old freshman revealed bolts of colorful fabric that he said he planned to use for theatrical productions -- an utterly bizarre notion, at this rugged school intended to train missionaries.
Jennifer Argote / The Dartmouth Senior Staff "Hello?
This is the last Mirror under my watchful eye, and what better topic to cover with my last little soapbox than the one I'm most passionate about -- flair (see below). It's been fun, Dartmouth.
'11 Kappa: I saw some drunk idiot AD boy falling down the stairs last night only wearing a thong.
In January, Vanessa Sievers '10 will take office as the youngest Grafton County Treasurer in history.
Hello my name is Stefanie, and I'm a dork -- a total unabashed geek. I've been known to watch C-Span for fun, download Jonas Brothers and Miley Cyrus albums because I genuinely like them and tell painfully corny jokes at the most inappropriate times.
Put some Taylor Swift on 'repeat' and settle down, because this week Rembert Browne writes an open letter to whomever has time for his broken heart. I didn't think it would be like this.
In the spirit of the recently ended election, Divya Gunasekaran writes about the politics of the pit.
By Luofei Deng November 4th has finally come to pass, and I could not be happier. The outcome of the election has nothing to do with my joy though.