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Jenny Chen

Class of 2021
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Bio 

Hello! 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, conduct research at the Geisel School of Medicine, and act as a mentor for the Great Issues Scholars LLC. Some of my favorite things to do on-campus include running around Occom Pond , stargazing, and spending quality time with some of the amazing people I have met here.

Academic Program 

Biology and Quantitative Social Science

Favorite Thing Right Now 

Paddleboarding

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!

Things You Appreciate During Finals Week

 Here are a few of the things that keep my spirits high during finals week.
  1. No. 1

    Empty Lecture Rooms

    blackboard

    With all of the study rooms already booked in Baker-Berry library, my friend and I turned to the less popular Haldeman and Kemeny buildings to find a space where we could study together. Since those buildings are used by the math department, and neither one of us has taken a math class at Dartmouth, we spent a bit of time exploring around as we opened study room after study room, only to find them already occupied. We were quite ready to give up when we stumbled into this huge lecture room – an empty one, too. There was so much blackboard space to write our chemical equations and synthesis maps on with clean white chalk, it made studying bearable.  

  2. No. 2

    Dartmouth's Tae Kwon Do Team

    Before heading to the aforementioned study session, we walked by Novack, where the Dartmouth Tae Kwon Do team was selling Thai bubble tea! Even though they ran out of bubbles, I still bought a drink because I had never had Thai tea before and was curious to see how it tasted. It was quite delicious! If you're ever craving a sweet treat or snack, there are usually student organizations selling goods, either for charity fundraisers or to go towards maintaining their club. 

  3. No. 3

    Subject Librarians

    With just a few hours before our final project for GOVT 19 was due, my group was still confused about how to calculate the standard errors for a certain term in our model, given that we had not learned it in class. Having already emailed our professor and awaiting his response, one of my group members suggested that we talk to the Quantitative Social Science (QSS) librarians, who can be found in the first floor of Berry Library. I had not even known that there were librarians that we could consult about issues we were having with our code. It’s definitely nice to realize how many resources there are when you need some help.

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