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Brendilou Armstrong

Class of 2026
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Bio 

Hello, and welcome to my neck of the woods! My name is Brendilou Armstrong, and I am a '26 hailing from the cornfields and grassy plains of Western Nebraska. This year, I plan to involve myself in The Dartmouth, WebDCR (Dartmouth College Radio), and the Spilled Ink Poetry Club. I couldn't be more excited to set out on this expedition through college alongside all of you. Thanks for visiting my page!

Academic Program 

English/Creative Writing

Favorite Thing Right Now 

Binding my own journals at Dartmouth's Book Arts Workshop

Hometown 

Chadron, Nebraska

Pronouns 

she/her/hers

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Brendilou's D-Plan

What's a D-Plan?

    • FallOn Campus

      Favorite Class: 19th Century British Women Writers

      If you are interested in Victorian literature in any capacity, this is the class for you! It is a course taught by the WGSS (Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies) department and combines historical and political aspects into a literary seminar. The material is compelling and allows you to view female authors, including Mary Shelley, Jane Austen, and Elizabeth Gaskell, in a different perspective knowing the societal context of the time period and themes in their most popular works.

    • WinterOff-Campus

      Favorite Class: Off-Term in Chadron, Nebraska

      This would have been winter term of my freshman year, but I decided to take a gap year following my freshman fall instead!

    • SpringOff-Campus

      Favorite Class: Off-Term in Chadron, Nebraska

      This would have been spring term of my freshman year, but I decided to take a gap year following my freshman fall instead!

    • FallOn Campus

      Favorite Class: CRWT 12: Introduction to Poetry

      If poetic language and artistic writing styles are your forte, this is the perfect class for you! Taught by the English/Creative Writing department, Introduction to Poetry is an incredible foundation to storytelling, introducing students to poetry styles from prose to ekphrastic and written to slam. The approach to teaching the course revolved around the strategies of Robert Frost, where the Poetry Room in Sanborn Library held our class, and students' chairs were arranged in a circle rather than in rows of desks. CRWT 12 is one of the most unique and fascinating classes I have taken thus far, and as a result, has become my favorite class I have taken on campus.

    • WinterOn Campus

      Favorite Class: ASCL 70.01: Sacred Architecture of Asia

      Niche classes and concentrations define a Dartmouth education, and before this term, I never intended on taking an Asian art history course, let alone one with such a defined focus. Taught through both the Department of Art History and the Department of Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages by Columbia University guest lecturer Seher Agarwala, this course contextualizes sacred architectural structures of the Buddhist, Hindu, and Islamic faiths. I left this course with a newfound interest in the artistic practices of East Asian cultures and an appreciation for their diverse historical backgrounds and religions.

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Performing Arts in the Middle of the Woods?

"What even is a First-Year Trip?" Leading up to my trek into the wilderness, I did not expect to be immersed in campus culture and community nearly as much as I was. This is my First-Year Trips experience with D751: Cabin Camping and Performing Arts!

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