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!
My best friend and roommate, Anna, on the green when it was considerably warmer, and greener
Here at Dartmouth, we have a survey-based roommate pairing system, where you are matched with a random person who has similar answers to yours. You are asked several questions about things, like when you go to sleep, if you like the room loud, if you're introverted or extroverted, etc. It's kind of scary not having total control of who you live with, but good thing it works out pretty well.
As it turns out, my roommate Anna and I are best friends. Ok yeah, that sounds pretty cheesy, but it's true.
We're the southern gals on our floor; I'm from Houston, she's from Atlanta. Though I was hoping for a roommate from the north who would help me survive the cold, we're surviving the Hanover winters together.
Anna and I (featuring our other bestie Julie) enjoying the first big snow of the year.
Living with someone you don't really know is a big deal, but Dartmouth does such a good job pairing you with a compatible roomie. I don't know I'd do without Anna; we have such similar sleep schedules, eating habits, opinions about mac and cheese... I could go on forever. She's the best.
It was Anna's birthday the other day! We took her out to celebrate at Molly's and surprised her with a cake from Lou's, which are two iconic Hanover dining establishments.
The moral of the story is, even if you don't pick your roommate, it works out! In fact, it probably even worked out better than any roommate I ever could have chosen myself. Even though I've only known her since September, it feels like I've known Anna a lifetime. I'm so glad we get to share a room in the choates together - Cohen for life!
I've been reflecting on the lovely past four years of my life, and I came up with this list of seven things to help you succeed and thrive at Dartmouth.
After talking with our new improv president for a while, we decided that we would do a Zoom show. Not only does performing allow me to share my comedy with my friends, it is just, in general, a great time!
It took a couple weeks, but then I arrived at the (rather obvious) conclusion that school shouldn't preclude my making pancakes or doing chores or watching Frozen II. Zoom does not render Dartmouth some unsympathetic entity.
Here at Dartmouth, we have a survey-based roommate pairing system, where you are matched with a random person who has similar answers to yours. You are asked several questions about things, like when you go to sleep, if you like the room loud, if you're introverted or extroverted, etc. It's kind of scary not having total control of who you live with, but good thing it works out pretty well.
