My name is Eva, and I'm a '25 Mechanical Engineering BE student from Upstate New York. My time at Dartmouth has been marked by the combination of the arts and engineering on campus and you can often find me working on a new project in either the Dartmouth Engineering Machine Shop or Visual Arts Center. In my free time, I love to work on lego sets and watch the craziest reality tv I can find!
Hello and welcome to the beginning of my Dartmouth journey! Whether you're a current high school senior drawn to Dartmouth's glorious green, a parent looking to learn more about an authentic college experience, or my mom (Hello! I made it!), you're in the right place. As most introductions start, my name is Eva and I'm a '25 from Albany NY on the biomedical ab+be track with academic interests in studio art, public policy, and anthropology. I'm a huge outdoors person and love all nature based activities, including but not limited to: newt finding, stream wading, kayaking, bird watching, and boogie boarding. Though I'm most at home outdoors, I'm a huge poetry and art history nerd, so I'm already looking forward to the hours I'll be spending at the Hop.
When applying to colleges, Dartmouth found me before I found it. One of the friends I'd been close with since preschool (who also ended up attending), asked me to write a peer letter of recommendation for his Dartmouth application. A peer letter of recommendation was something I'd never heard of before so of course I had to look into the school a bit further. What I found changed the game for me. Dartmouth was the first school that wanted to know everything about who I truly was. Not just the student, but the daughter, friend, and teenager.
The beautiful view from a Dartmouth owned cabin!
Now that I'm on campus, I can confidently say that this extra consideration worked to create an incredibly curious, diverse, and passionate class. During first year trips, I danced around a field in the mountains with hundreds of others and saw every single person enjoying the fun; I hiked 3 hours with people I had just met purely because we were curious about what was on the other side of a hill; I searched for shooting stars (which are absolutely breathtaking here in comparison to NY) with a new friend because we had nothing else to do. I could go on and on about the D-plan, research opportunities, academic flexibility, and career fairs, but that's not why I chose Dartmouth. I chose Dartmouth because of the people it attracts, and I'm so excited to see where they lead me.
It's hard to fully express just how meaningful Cabin and Trail (CnT) is to me. Since coming to Dartmouth a year and a half ago, this community has shaped me in ways I never expected. It is a source of hope and a new home.
When I first came to Dartmouth, the last thing I wanted to experience was the infamous, chilling New England winter—but I've discovered that Dartmouth's climate was a blessing in disguise, and even perhaps my favorite thing about campus.
I sat down with Aarushi Jain '25, a coxswain on the women's rowing team, to learn more about the opportunities to study abroad as an athlete at Dartmouth!
