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Jenny Chen

Class of 2021
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Bio 

Hi there! My name is Jenny and I'm a junior at Dartmouth studying biology and qualitative social science. Besides blogging, I also work as communications intern for the admissions office, tutor local high school students through Health Access for All, and mentor freshmen in the Great Issues Scholars LLC. Some of my favorite things to do on-campus include going to the jewelry studio, stargazing on the golf course, and spending quality time with the amazing people I have met.

Academic Program 

Biology and Quantitative Social Science

Favorite Thing Right Now 

Matcha lattes

Hometown 

Bethesda, Maryland

Pronouns 

She/Her

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Jenny's D-Plan

What's a D-Plan?

    • FallOn Campus

      Favorite Class: Sociology 001

      I looked forward to this class every week, partly because of the professor and partly due to the content. We read books on a wide variety of topics, ranging from privilege and how it affects our interactions with others to restaurant kitchens and the hierarchies inherent in surgical residencies.

    • WinterOn Campus

      Favorite Class: Biology 013

      Biol13 is structured so that you have to work as a group on difficult class problems and even on some exams, which was novel to me and pushed me to really understand the material. This class inspired me to pursue research (both off-campus and on-campus) related to genetics.

    • SpringOn Campus

      Favorite Class: The Body: The Nude in Western Visual Art

      Although this class was daunting to me in the beginning, given that I had little to no experience in either Women's, Gender, and Sexuality or Art History, it was also one of the classes in which I became the most engaged in. For our final project, I investigated the history of allegories in Western art and why they were so often portrayed as women.

    • SummerOff Campus

      I interned at Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, MA under Dr. Livingston. I explored the mechanism by which BRCA1 acts as a tumor suppressor. It was really rewarding to be able to apply what I had learned in Biol13, including specific procedures and techniques we had been tested on, to a real-life laboratory setting.

    • FallOn Campus

      Favorite Class: Organic Chemistry

      This class is notorious for its difficulty, and I would not call it an easy class. Nonetheless, it was my favorite class because I loved Professor Jacobi, who has taught at Dartmouth for 22 years, and I appreciated learning mechanisms behind why certain reactions happen. Instead of rote memorization, this class relied on being able to predict the products of a reaction, a skill picked up from lots of practice.

    • WinterOn Campus

      Favorite Class: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

      Although this was an introductory class, Professor Craig made it more dynamic and interactive, with several visits to the Hood Museum of Art, ethnography labs, and weekly discussion posts. I learned about everything from the Gebusi culture and their rites of passage to the opioid epidemic. For my final paper, I conducted an ethnography studying the social dynamics that take place in Baker Lobby and how that relates to the exchange of capital.

    • SpringOn Campus

      Favorite Class: Introduction to Programming and Computation

      Though I had taken four years of computer science before (mostly in middle school), I did not have a very good experience with coding prior to taking CS1. However, the professor was one of the best professors I have had, explaining jargon in understandable ways and even giving out chocolate bars to students who answered the most difficult questions she would ask in class. I was certain that there was no way I would be able to create the lab assignments (such as a revolving solar system animation and map of Dartmouth that calculated the shortest possible route between two points), but she enabled all of us to through exercises, short assignments, and exams.

    • SummerOn Campus

      Favorite Class: Sex, Gender, and Society

      I took this class for a distributive requirement and ended up loving it. Each student was assigned a day to present on a certain topic - mine being patriarchy. I decided to analyze relationships in Crazy Rich Asians through a lens of the patriarchal bargain. We explored transgender issues, the history of feminism, gender identity, and so much more. Would highly recommend!

    • FallOn Campus

      Favorite Class: Sports Analytics

      As someone who didn't know the rules to pretty much any sport, I tentatively signed up for this class. However, the professors made it clear that everyone had a different sports background, so I never felt at a disadvantage. We used Markov chains to predict winners of tennis matches, analyzed field goals kicks using logit models, and listened to guest speakers from a variety of industries.

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The Greener, the Better

Living on a college campus and eating at dining halls means that you’re likely grabbing food in plastic containers, using plastic utensils, and in doing so, contributing to our overall carbon footprint. However, Dartmouth has made several steps to make it easier for students to be eco-friendly. The initiatives have also promoted thinking more consciously about the impact we have on the environment.

  1. No. 1

    Green 2 Go

    green2go

    Green 2 Go is a program that reduces the amount of take-out containers used by students. To start, students can pay $4 for a carabiner that can then be exchanged for a “to go” plastic container when they want to take food out of the Class of ’53 Commons, and now the dining hall at the Hopkins Center for the Arts as well. After using the plastic container, it can be dropped off at a variety of locations all around campus and students will receive the carabiner once again. And repeat! I think this is an ingenious idea, and it’s actually been very convenient. During my freshman fall, I was on the meal plan that includes 20 swipes to the Class of ’53 Commons so I took advantage by using the “to go” option when I had somewhere else to be. In the spring, it was also nice to have the option to take the food outside and sit on the Green.

  2. No. 2

    Bring Your Own Bottle

    cider

    King Arthur Flour is a café in the Baker-Berry library, and it’s a popular spot for coffee fanatics and dependents. If you bring your own mug, you receive a 25-cent discount, and every eighth person in line with their own mug gets their drink for free! One of my friends has already gotten three free drinks this term as a result. Since my sister just gave me a mug small enough for KAF drinks, I’m going to start using that instead of their disposable cups.

  3. No. 3

    Reusable Utensils

    spork

    At the end of last year, when students may have extra DBA (dining dollars), there was an option to donate a certain amount of money towards a fund that would buy the incoming class reusable sporks. My House Community, North Park, was even giving out a few customized sporks during their spirit week. Instead of constantly taking plastic utensils for every meal, you can simply whip out your handy three-in-one spork! In addition to the sporks at Collis Center, which can be bought with DBA, there are also reusable straws because plastic straws (which used to be in each Collis smoothie) were phased out last year.

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