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The Mirror Asks: When are you most neurotic?

By The Dartmouth Mirror Staff | January 25, 2008

"I have 32 folders set up in Blitz that I actively use to filter my e-mail." -- Luofei Deng '10 "Open doors -- I cannot begin to focus on anything if some door near me is left ajar." -- Katherine Gorman '08 "Mine is, embarrassingly, footnotes in papers." -- Jean Luo '10 "Actually I think that my most obsessive-compulsive trait is checking Blitz and Facebook." -- Esther Ha '11 "I can't touch public door knobs!

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Hello Dartmouth!

By Caitlin Kelly | January 25, 2008

This week The Mirror crawled into the deepest darkest corners of campus looking for Dartmouth's most compulsive perfectionists.

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Warning Signs of Neurotic Perfectionist Tendencies

By Emily Hirshey | January 25, 2008

You check out the new photo albums on Facebook, and you read, "Created just a moment ago." You blitz yourself so that you'll have new mail the next time you check on a public terminal, which will be a maximum of two minutes later. As you look over notes you took in class you read, "Professor takes 20 second pause and then sips a glass of water.

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The Granite in our Brains

By Jean Ellen | January 18, 2008

Is that copy of "People" perched on your elliptical really helping your workout, or are you hungry for gossip in addition to a Collis salad?

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Tech it Out: Macbook air

By Luofei Deng | January 18, 2008

What is the geek in all of us going to be drooling over this year? Luofei Deng talks about Steve Jobs' latest masterpiece. I had planned for my first column of the new term and new year to be a look back at 2007 and a look forward to 2008.

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Spotlight

By Jean Lou | January 11, 2008

__Ruth Hupart '08, Co-chair of Sustainable Dartmouth__ _Do you think that our knowledge of the environment has changed in the past decade?

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Going Green

By Katherine Gorman | January 11, 2008

Green isn't just a color or shorthand for "sustainable" -- now it's a trend. Katherine Gorman looks at how the prospect of a warmer world is bringing reality into the closet. As our world heats up there are many things to fear -- the melting of the polar ice caps, the disintegration of the ozone layer, the possibility that Venice may one day be no more, et cetera, et cetera.

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Alex Got in Trouble

By Alex Howe | January 11, 2008

It wouldn't be early January in the media without some sort of nod to the New Year, whether looking backwards to the year that was or forwards to what will be.

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Editor's Note

By Caitlin Kelly | January 11, 2008

Caitlin Kelly / The Dartmouth Senior Staff In the past week, my life's very foundation has been shattered.

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Stayin' Alive: Hangover myths unveiled

By Jilian Gundling | November 30, 2007

For many of the socially-inclined, hangovers are a fact of life. The bigger the night, the more likely you are going to be curled in a fetal position the next day, swearing to yourself that you will never drink again -- or at least not until Wednesday. To ease the pain of hangovers, it is necessary to separate the facts from the myths.

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