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An Ode to the Awkward
By Emma Ginsberg | February 24, 2021When I imagined winter term on campus, I didn't picture myself yelling through plexiglass to order food at Foco.
Emma Ginsberg
Emma ('23) is a Mirror writer from Chicago, Illinois. She hopes to major in some combination of English and geography, studies opera and is a member of the Dartmouth Rude Mechanicals. Emma also enjoys hoarding house plants, has strong opinions about musicals and hopes you had a good time reading this bio.
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The spaces between: Stepping away from Greek life at Dartmouth
By Emma Ginsberg | February 12, 2021For some Dartmouth students, Greek life is as quintessential to campus culture as freezing New Hampshire winters and rigorous academics. Though Greek life offers positive connections and genuine support networks for some, for others, a house is not always a home.
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Quarantine Creations: Students Make Art in Isolation
By Emma Ginsberg | January 13, 2021Since the COVID-19 pandemic began almost a full year ago, I’ve thought a lot about the future of art. If art is a mode of self-expression, what happens when your sense of self, removed from the places and people that shape it, is rocked? If art is a vessel for our joy, what happens when the sources of joy change? I was afraid that life in lockdown would make us too tired to create things, or that stress and lack of materials would immobilize us even when we wanted to create things. I hoped that making things was such an inherently human act that it would pull us through the wildest of circumstances.
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Students find ‘home’ in residence halls
By Emma Ginsberg | October 30, 2020The prospect of living in a dorm is, for many new students, one of the most foundational parts of college life. Somewhere between the buzzing excitement of move-in day and the bittersweet last glance through the door before leaving on break, many develop soft spots for their little rooms. When walking back to the dorms after a long night of studying in the library, some students even find themselves unthinkingly saying that they’re “heading home.”
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Raising the Barre with Dartmouth Classical Ballet Theater
By Emma Ginsberg | October 7, 2020Now seems like an odd time for a dance club to be having a renaissance. However, the Dartmouth Classical Ballet Theater, a student group dedicated to offering free, inclusive dance classes, has emerged from this unusual year leaping higher than ever. Having extended its reach across the student body (with beautiful port de bras), DCBT is starting this year en pointe.
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How to Spice Up Your Life in Quarantine
By Emma Ginsberg | September 23, 2020Is your quarantine routine starting to feel drab? Are you looking for fresh ways to bond with your new floormates? These 10 activities, which you can do no matter where in the world you’re quarantined, are both socially distanced and sure to jazz up your day.
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Mind the Gap: Reimagining a Year Away
By Emma Ginsberg | September 16, 2020When you hear the words “gap year,” what do you imagine? If you’re like me, someone who went straight to college after graduating from high school, you might imagine gap year students something like those larger-than-life folk heroes of yore — they disappear into the mountains and emerge months ...
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Zoom University: A ’24’s Guide To Online Learning
By Emma Ginsberg | September 11, 2020Dear ’24s, Chances are, you didn’t imagine spending your freshman year online and in quarantine.
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What To Do When Your Usual Gets Taken Off The Menu
By Emma Ginsberg | May 27, 2020Nearly every essay I wrote during my first two terms at Dartmouth was composed at 10 a.m. on a Saturday, sitting in the lobby of Baker-Berry with a King Arthur Flour scone and an over-cinnamoned cappuccino in front of me. I’d never had any reason to believe my writing ritual was problematic, but when faced with my first essay of the remote term, composed at home and far from Blobby, I came to a grave realization: I was incapable of writing without KAF. Playing both Pavlov and his dogs, I had unwittingly conditioned myself to rely on the ritual.
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The Weight of this Time: Creating in Isolation
By Emma Ginsberg | May 6, 2020There is a small portrait of William Shakespeare stuck to my computer, mustachioed and smiling under the sunglasses drawn onto his face. “Today is the day,” I tell Shakespeare every morning when I sit down at my desk. “Today is the day I make you proud!”