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November 29, 2024 | Latest Issue
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Alex Got In Trouble: The Day That Harvard Came

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The schedule of college groups volunteering over spring break was made months in advance, so I had plenty of time to plot how I would prove myself a better human being than the Harvard-bots: arm wrestling, perhaps, or a contest of SAT-style analogies. Go!


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Perspectives: Canned for Cannabis

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So you think it's over? You worked hard in school, made Career Services your best friend, perfected your resume until you had it memorized and dedicated 10 weeks of your life to corporate recruiting.


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The Dish: The Munchies

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Ah munchies, that urgent hunger that must be fulfilled, that need for anything edible, as long as it's not a salad and preferably is covered in cheese.



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A Brief History of 420...

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So it's April 20th, also known as 4/20, also known as time to get high. Yes, this day's date is both the hour to toke and our favorite code word for smoking marijuana and talking about it in front of oblivious squares.



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Ledyard, According to Gifford

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When John Ledyard arrived at Dartmouth in the spring of 1772, he grabbed everybody's attention with his flashy clothes and his carriage -- the first to ever reach Dartmouth.


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Overheard

'09 Sigma Delt: I'll pee in a frat shower if I have to go, but I would NEVER go in the sink. Ew. '08 Kappa: Oh my God, I want a stick of meat! Christian 1: I'm going to go see "The Passion of the Christ," do you want to come? Christian 2: Nah, it's too bloody.



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The Friday Quickie: Dissective Behavior

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Senior spring is a wonderful time, particularly if you're not taking classes. Being at school without actually having to go to school has afforded me (and a handful of my similarly toolish former AP-scholar friends) a whole lot of free time.


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Alex Got in Trouble: Mash it up

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I am in the Dayton, Ohio airport waiting to fly back to Biloxi. My first eleven weeks on the Gulf Coast were like Natalie Portman's character in Garden State: challenging, strangely beautiful and likely to change my life. At the end of the movie, Zach Braff experiences a Natalie montage set to silly hipster music.


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The Power of Words

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I have never been much for lyrics. There are plenty of bands that I love. I may know only about five lyrics from their entire discographies but continue to recommend them to friends.




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Gadget Gripes

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Technology changes fast. Your brand spanking new computer will be archaic in less than one year. To have the newest iPod, you would have to buy one about every six months, on average.


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Overheard

'09 Guy: If Cohen and Little were connected, it would be Clittle. '09 Kappa: The moral of the story is, stop hooking up with Theta Delts. '06 Theta Delt (without irony): Then who would you hook up with? '08 Girl 1: Who is this girl? '08 Girl 2: She used to sell me Adderall.





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Mirror PicKs

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Book: "Einstein Picasso: Space, Time, and the Beauty that Causes Havoc" by Arthur I. Miller Is it merely coincidence that cubism and relativity, together defining modernity and renovating the arts and the sciences, appeared to the world within two years of one another?