Colleen O'Connor

Becoming a blogger for the admissions office was, like most aspects of my Dartmouth experience, something that I did not anticipate--maybe I'm starting to sound like a broken record but there have just been so many unexpected things these past few

Greek life was never really something I thought about when I began visiting colleges. I recognized that many students used Greek life as a social outlet, but I did not have a "Greek vs.

Imagine this: you arrive in China after a sleepless fourteen-hour flight, wait for an hour to go through customs, pick up your luggage from baggage claim, and take a 45-minute cab ride to the apartment you're renting for the summer only to open th

Even before coming to Dartmouth, I knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur.

When I first told my parents that I wanted to complete back-to-back study abroad programs in two very different countries (China and Peru) the summer and fall following my first year at Dartmouth, I was met with mixed emotions.

In talking about Dartmouth, I think it can be very easy to omit the discussion of friendship. I never actually take the time to talk about my day-to-day experiences and the people who truly make Dartmouth feel like a home...

Perhaps this is my junior-year self finally realizing that I only have three terms left at Dartmouth, but, this term, I found myself struggling to figure out which classes to take.

This term, I am really excited to be enrolled in the Senior Design Challenge, a course that was created to bring together 20 seniors from all over campus for a two-term sequence of need-finding, problem-solving, and designing for a client.

"Hi, I'm Colleen, and I am an Asian and Middle Eastern Studies modified with Economics major and a Human-Centered Design minor." I honestly cannot tell you the number of times I've repeated this sentence at networking events, interviews, and one-o