Hi y'all! I'm Catherine and I'm from the great state of Texas. When I'm not in class you'll find me carefully curating Spotify playlists, exploring the Upper Valley with friends, or finding ways to enjoy the great outdoors through different sub-clubs with the DOC. I am the Treasurer of the club lacrosse team, a tutor for the Institute for Writing and Rhetoric, and am involved with research in machine learning and computational humanities through Sophomore and Neukom scholars!
After seeing this class in the course catalogue, it surprisingly piqued my interest. I decided to take the course on a whim, and I don't regret it for a second. Between reading various historical accounts and conducting my very first true historical research paper, I learned more about Gandhi than I ever thought I would know in my lifetime. Furthermore, I gained valuable knowledge about India's struggle for independence and subsequent partitions that have allowed me to better understand the historical context behind current day issues in South Asia. From this course I've realized that I love history, and want to pursue the discipline as a double major.
This class was AWESOME. I originally took the course as a prerequisite for another potential major. However, coming away from CS1, I now know that I want to continue further in the CS department! My professor was amazing and truly had a passion for teaching computer science and getting new students excited about the discipline. Besides having an infectious energy during class, she also made sure to make short assignments and labs fun and engaging. HIGHLY recommend. So much fun.
This term was by far my favorite so far at Dartmouth, especially by the time the snow melted and the sun came back out from wherever it was hiding. I absolutely loved this history class that I took because I felt that it helped me to better understand the way our country is today by studying our political past. I got to focus on a research topic of my own choosing, and I discovered a real love and affinity for research in the field of history.
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I spent the summer at home, relaxing with my family and friends. When I wasn't at home in Houston, I was traveling with family, in particular my grandparents, who live in Florida and California.
I'm finally back on campus! I can't wait to get back into the swing of things, and enjoy the beauty of Hanover autumns. i am very excited for my classes this term, particularly a coding class in the humanities, where I will get to apply my love for computation and programming to topics in the humanities!
This class, being in the Anthropology department, was certainly out of my comfort zone. With my history background, however, I found that I had a unique perspective to contribute to class conversations, due to the varied nature of the anthropological academic approach. We learned about the history of conquest in Latin America and how that shape conquest today. What is conquest? Does it still persist? Can it ever go away? Are we to always live in the legacy past?
Spring 20S! Online classes… This class, CS52, got me through this term. With all the chaos and uncertainty surrounding everything going on, the projects for this class made me stay sane. Work for this class was fun and even stress relieving (weird, yes, I am aware). And the professor was absolutely incredible. I am super proud of all the projects I made, including most notably our app Tempo, an IOS app that makes custom workout playlists.
This past weekend I spent my Saturday with the Dartmouth Outing Club for DOC fall weekend. Fall weekend is where a bunch of sub-clubs from all over the DOC run various trips all over New Hampshire, and they all end up at the same place: the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge. The lodge is infamous in Dartmouth lore; it is where trippees spend their last night of trips and trips crews spend weeks of their summer. But it is open to anyone and everyone to go at any time!
Rumney rocks! ha. ha.
I went on a beginner/intermediate climbing trip to Rumney where I was able to learn how to lead climb for the first time. I've recently been trying to get involved with climbing, and I've found it to be an incredibly fun and rewarding hobby. A few people on the trip had never climbed before so that was really cool to get to be there for that experience, since the first time I ever climbed was last spring, for spring weekend, the fall weekend equivalent. Plus, it was an absolutely gorgeous day and I'm so glad I got to spend it outside. The conditions, though slightly chilly, were absolutely ideal.
After we left Rumney we booked it to the lodge for lodge dinner. It is universally accepted that lodge dinners are the best dinners. The food is entirely vegetarian and gluten free, and they have many accommodations for those who need them. For big meat eaters like me, this was at first very daunting, but I'm telling you the food is incredible. I don't know what kind of special secret magic they sprinkle in it, but I'm telling you, the magic of the Moosilauke lodge works wonders. It is three full courses of yummy goodness. Our trip couldn't stop talking all day about how excited we were for this dinner, and afterwards, we were not disappointed.
The hustle and bustle of lodge dinner!
After dinner, they had a concert where some guys from the DOC played some fun songs on their instruments. Sadly, I had to get back to campus, but many people stayed overnight. You get to sleep in cabins and get ANOTHER lodge meal–breakfast! I haven't spent the night before besides on trips but it is definitely on my Dartmouth bucket list to do it soon.
Being able to have such incredible experiences with such cool people are one of the things that makes Dartmouth so special for me. Besides being able to develop a new passion for something like climbing, wholesome time spent at the lodge with friends, new and old, is an experience so uniquely "Dartmouth" that it brings me so much joy.
Dartmouth is a fantastic place that can be nearly impossible to explain to those who haven't stepped foot on its campus. This was the case with my parents, until this week!
One of the coolest groups I'm involved with on campus is the Dartmouth Rude Mechanicals, a student-run Shakespeare Company and term, we did a production of Coriolanus, one of Shakespeare's Roman tragedies.
I tend to get bored of places really easily, but I have yet to run out of different rooms in the library! Here are some of my favorite study spots at Dartmouth :)
Rumney rocks! ha. ha.
The hustle and bustle of lodge dinner!
