Lamees Kareem

Every Thursday students who study or are interested in Arabic converge in the lounge of Bartlett Hall to discuss topics related to the various cultures of the Middle East and North Africa over sweets, biscuits, and Moroccan tea.

I always had my own room, and by chance, was never housed with a roommate during summer camps. To top that off, I really like my personal space.

Their choice of venue was pretty incomparable: Dartmouth’s Hood Museum! We dressed up for the event that was impeccably organized with catering, live performances from student groups (such as Street Soul), and a DJ.

Every term, Dartmouth has one big, traditional weekend celebration. The big event of every winter term is Winter Carnival.

Coming to Dartmouth, my experience with the outdoors was very limited. I had only camped out once and went hiking for the first time on my First-Year Trip.

Have you ever heard of 'drill'? John A. Rassias, a former professor at Dartmouth, developed an innovative language learning strategy known as the Rassias Method (or the Dartmouth Intensive Language Model) that we use in these drill classes.

As a student from the Middle East, I would have never imagined that I would go to the States to learn more about the politics and culture of my own region…

 I recently had the chance to revisit some iconic French comics, like Tintin and Astérix, in none other than my First Year Seminar.  

We all have drawn cartoons for America's oldest college newspaper, The Dartmouth!

The next morning we were greeted by beautiful mounds of frosty white flakes covering our campus outside our windows - it was my very first snow experience!