Brian Drisdelle

It's 3AM – a long night of studying nears its end, and my fading mental capacity beckons me to the cozy comfort of my bedsheets.

A hub for political discourse and debate, The College is a frequent stop for candidates and speakers as they promote their platforms, not to mention the opportunity this brings for student activism.

To venture, to innovate, to create – all the quintessential undertakings of the entrepreneur.

Hanover perflectly embodies that quintessential feeling of autumn – the cool days and crisp nights, the bright colors and the crunching of leaves under tender footsteps – there's something to it that makes it feel near-sublime.

Working in admissions and interviewing campus-dwellers for our 3D Magazine, I've always been curious about what made Dartmouth special for current students, deducing exactly what set it apart so that they chose to spend their next four years here.

My week in a nutshell:

Coming into college, I thought I knew exactly what I wanted to get involved in; I had talked to the club hockey coach before I had even committed, and politics and science-engineering-clubs were my thing in high school.

I know that when I was applying to colleges, how breaks and vacations worked with the D-Plan was something that I was always curious about, and so I figured I'd provide a little overview to clear things up a bit.

I'll be kicking off my sophomore year with a few tougher classes, amongst them ENGS 21, otherwise known as that fancy intro to engineering class where you create and produce an invention of your own design.