Hello! My name is Jenny and I'm a sophomore at Dartmouth. Besides blogging, I work as a communications intern for the admissions office! I also do research at Geisel School of Medicine, and I am a mentor for the Great Issues Scholars LLC, centered around security, global health, and environment. Some of my favorite ways to relax include running around Occom Pond, stargazing, and spending quality time with some of the amazing people I have met here.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
In the next part of my posts about various libraries around campus, now’s the time to focus on Sanborn Library – one of the coziest places to be. I can’t count the number of times that I asked a friend to join me at Sanborn, only for them to say that they’re afraid of falling asleep there. I have to admit, it’s may not be ideal for those who need to really concentrate and work, but for light reading, there’s no problem.
The library is decked out with elaborate chandeliers, leather armchairs, and planks of wood that serve as makeshift desks for those lounging in the armchairs. Sanborn Library is also home to the English Department faculty offices and seminar rooms. Last year, I even discovered an underground tunnel to Baker-Berry Library, which I have used for a “warm cut,” also known as a shortcut taken to escape the cold outside.
The library was made for Edwin David Sanborn, a member of the class of 1832 and an English professor. He left behind a tradition still appreciated by students to this day. Every weekday between 4 and 5 pm, teatime commences. With free tea and cookies available with a small donation, it’s the perfect way for students to relax. A cup of tea does make everything better, something that Edwin Sanborn took to heart.
I usually spend my academic hours in the lab, or otherwise in a professor’s office getting extemporaneous assistance on some mathematical problem set. But this term is a little different.
Game of Thrones. Global phenomenon. Final season coming up soon, April 14th. What better way to prepare than taking a whole class devoted to Game of Thrones itself?
With many of my friends back from their off-terms, I am excited for the many different events happening at Dartmouth this term. Here the five things I look forward to most each spring!
Whether you’ve dreamed of Dartmouth your whole life, or whether this whole ordeal is an unexpected adventure you didn’t quite see coming, we at Dartmouth are excited to welcome you to campus.
At the beginning of the term, all of us bloggers gathered together to share a meal and catch up on our current writing and work ideas. One of the brainstorming activities we did involved compiling a list of words that encapsulated Dartmouth to us.
