Hey everyone! I'm Cooper from Wayne, Pennsylvania, which is right outside of Philadelphia. I am a '28 here at Dartmouth, and plan on studying Quantitative Social Science and Cognitive Science. In my free time, I love getting food with friends, playing pickleball, watching sitcoms (personal favorite is Modern Family), and going on walks. I am super excited to be here and cannot wait to take you along my journey at Dartmouth!
I took this class with Professor Binkoski, and I absolutely loved it! We explored numerous theories regarding time travel and the existence of time, and it just completely blew my mind. Professor Binkoski is such an engaging lecturer and explains everything so thoroughly, which makes the class so incredible! After taking this class, I have become more interested in philosophy and cannot wait to take more classes in this department.
I took this class with Professor Horiuchi and learned more than I could have possibly imagined! This course is incredibly challenging and has a good amount of work, but I learned so much about the programing language R as well as how to wrangle and visualize data. By taking this class, I have confirmed that I want to major in QSS because of how interesting the material was. If you want to enhance your skills in R, this is the class to take!
Dartmouth loves to treat us with long breaks in between terms. For spring break, we had about 2 and a half weeks off, which gave everyone time to travel and relax before spring term! I made sure to take some time for myself, but also meet up with friends that I have not seen in a few months! Because of the long break, it was super easy to hang out with many of my friends since their breaks tended to overlap with mine. Let me tell you about the highlights of spring break!
During one of the weekends of spring break, I went to Washington D.C. (which is about 2 and a half hours from where I live) to visit friends from Dartmouth! It was so amazing to catch up with them and hang out with them in a place other than Dartmouth, and we explored D.C. as well as the surrounding area. Because of the length of our spring break, we were there for a few nights and got to see so many iconic sites such as the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. It was a great time and it was so nice to travel to such an amazing place.
Friends in D.C.!
I also went into Philly for the day (which is a much quicker trip) and visited my friends at Temple University. Although they were not on break at the same time I was, it was just a quick train ride to get into the city and see them. We walked around Temple, visited Center City, and hung out and caught up! It was really cool to visit a school that is in a bustling city, which is very different from Dartmouth's campus! I also have friends at Villanova University, which is about a 10 minute drive from where I live, so I was able to visit them as well; this was all thanks to the length of our spring break and I am so grateful that I had the time to see as many people as possible!
Reading Terminal Market in Philly!
Because Dartmouth gives us such a nice spring break, you have so much time to do whatever you want!
