Hey!! I'm Eloise and this is my blog! I'm a '28 from New Holland, Pennsylvania. I love to read and write in my free time and I'm so excited to get involved in clubs at Dartmouth. I love exploring the outdoors and I can't wait to go on more trips with the Dartmouth Outing Club. I hope you enjoy my blog!
This course covers modern American history through an imperial lens. It was my first time learning about these topics and events in-depth, and I learned so much! The class focuses on small group discussions and having nuanced conversations about assigned readings. It was the perfect class for my first fall! I cannot recommend this class enough!
This course was my first-year seminar, a portion of the Dartmouth first-year writing sequence. In this class, we read four Jane Austen novels and discussed them as a class. The best part was our final project: creating an exhibit to be displayed in Baker-Berry Library! In partnership with Rauner Special Collections Library, we worked with Austen's first editions and designed an exhibit to celebrate Austen’s 250 Birthday.
This course introduces different types of sociological research methods, which culminate in a final research proposal to explore the topic of your choice. I'm not a sociology major, so I was intimidated at first, but I fell in love with the class and the topics. I stepped outside my comfort zone, and I learned so much. I highly recommend it!
SummerWashington, D.C.
For my first off-term at Dartmouth, I spent the summer in Washington, D.C. as a First-Year Fellow through the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy at Dartmouth. I interned at the House of Representatives, where I met constituents, politicians, and legislative staffers who help run our country. I learned so much about policy issues close to my heart, like animal rights and climate change. I also had so much fun exploring D.C. with the other fellows and learning about our nation’s capital!
This course is a requirement for English majors and discusses literary history from the early 10th century to the mid-17th century. We read Beowulf, works from Chaucer and Spenser, and tales about King Arthur and his knights. I loved exploring the worlds of romance and fantasy, while also learning about the historical significance and influence of these works. This class was so fun and it was a great introduction to the English department!
Dartmouth's location is perfect for students looking for an adventure! Nestled in the woods of New Hampshire and seated directly on the Appalachian Trail, opportunities for outdoor adventures in our very own backyard are endless.
Dartmouth is also perfectly located for day trips along the East Coast. I took advantage of this fact last term when I went to not one, but two concerts in the same weekend!
For the first concert of the weekend, I saw Lorde in Boston! My friend and I bought tickets for this concert back in the spring, so I was so excited when the day finally came.
The concert started at 7pm that Friday night, but we wanted to get into the city at a decent time to eat dinner and shop a little bit beforehand, so we left in the early afternoon. We attended our morning classes and then boarded the Dartmouth Coach to Boston's South Station.
The coach is a great resource for Dartmouth students and the whole Upper Valley community. The bus stops right on campus and goes directly to Boston or New York at an affordable cost to students. It's an easy transportation option for getting home or for going on day trips into the city.
Me on the Dartmouth Coach!
Around 4pm, we made it to Boston. We wanted to get to TD Garden, the venue, at around 6pm so we would have enough time to find our seats and buy merch, which gave us 2 hours to walk around Boston. We bought some trinkets and ate dinner and I even got my fortune read!
We eventually entered the venue and got ready for the openers to go on. Blood Orange was one of the openers, who is my sister's favorite artist, so I made sure to get her a concert shirt.
The concert was amazing! We had so much fun singing and dancing along with Lorde! After the concert, we walked back to South Station to catch a train into Rhode Island where my friend lives. We slept over at her house and spent the next day with her family doing all the must-do New England fall activities.
We went apple picking and each found a pumpkin to bring back to campus to paint after class one day. We also went to a fantastic vegan deli and ice cream store that my friend is always raving about. It was so good!
Me apple picking!
After lunch, her parents kindly drove us back to campus. On the way back, some friends of mine texted me about a Backseat Lovers concert the next day at the University of New Hampshire. At first, I decided against going, but once I got back to campus and finished up my homework for the weekend, I decided to go!
My friend has a car on campus, so the next day she drove me and our two other friends to Durham, New Hampshire. Once at the university, we parked and met up with some friends that went in a separate car.
The concert was set up outside in a fenced-in parking lot, so we waited in line to enter. After they scanned our tickets, we took a look around the concert grounds. At the far end was the stage, where the openers were already playing. Closer to the entrance, a sustainable flea market was set up, along with some food trucks. We all split up and started exploring everything.
The stage at the Backseat Lovers concert!
I browsed the racks of used clothing and bought some baked goods from a local vendor. There was a great selection of food from the food trucks, so it took time for us to decide what to get, but I ended up buying veggie dumplings.
Finally, Backseat Lovers went on. The concert was so good! I don't know as many songs from Backseat Lovers as I do Lorde, but it was still so fun listening to music with my friends!
We drove back to campus that same night and I told my roommates all about my weekend adventures before going to bed. My weekend away from campus was so amazing and I'm so grateful for Dartmouth's location in New England that makes it easy to have fun experiences like this.
In this blog, I share how joining Ujima, Dartmouth's oldest hip hop dance team, became not just a creative outlet but a family built on collective work, responsibility, and love.
Dartmouth offers three student workshops at The Hopkins Center: ceramics, jewelry, and woodwork! Join me on my journey as I explore the non-credit-based arts at Dartmouth and make some interesting handmade objects along the way! Up first, CERAMICS!
Staying connected to significant people in my life is very important to my emotional well being at Dartmouth. Here are some ways I stay social around Hanover and a little bit away in Boston!
My final week in Saigon was nothing short of adventure. Bittersweet, but still jam-packed with activities, come with me as I conclude my time in Vietnam
