Hi all! Welcome to my blog! My name is Robin. I am a senior studying Economics and the Digital Arts. Outside of class I'm a guitarist, amateur rock climber, and seasoned billiard player–if you're on campus, there's a good chance you can find me at the Collis pool hall. I love Dartmouth and am sharing my journey through this blog. So if you're a prospie, parent, or Dartmouth enthusiast, you've come to the right place!
In this class, I'll be learning about stellar evolution, the origin of the elements, the deaths of stars, black holes, the structure of our Galaxy, other galaxies, dark matter, the expanding universe and the big bang.
In this class, we explore the issues of mark, line, scale, space, light and composition. I'm not naturally a great artist, but I love art and am taking this course to improve my skills.
This course studies the economic behavior of employers and employees as they interact in the labor market, covering topics such as human capital investment, the structure and determinants of financial compensation and benefits packages, contract negotiations and arbitration.
Painting I is an introductory class in oil painting techniques, painting language, and critical thinking. Major topics that will be covered include: basic color theory, color mixing, paint application, and color composition.
This course explores how the brain controls our motivation to pursue goals and how drugs of abuse hijack those systems, exploring in detail how narcotic drugs (opioids, stimulants, alcohol, cannabis) act in the brain and the mechanisms underlying the transition from drug use to addiction.
As you are probably aware, we are nearing college decision deadlines—it's exciting! Your long years of hard work have paid off, and now it is time to make one of the most important choices of your life: where you will attend college. This is a very personal decision, and you should ultimately attend the school where you feel at home. For me, that was Dartmouth. I love my school, and I could type all day telling you the reasons why that is. However, there is one experience that sums it up—my first memory as first-year student at Dartmouth.
It was move-in day. I had taken an early flight from Washington D.C. to Boston and was on my way to Hanover aboard the Dartmouth Coach. My family was with me—we crowded into our own little section of the bus, all of us excited for what was to come. It's a two-hour drive to campus from the airport and I figured it was the perfect opportunity to catch some sleep. I grabbed my hoodie, slipped my shoes off, and closed my eyes.
Two hours later, I woke as my aunt shook my shoulder; we were ten minutes away from Dartmouth. I looked out of the window to see tall oaks lining the roadside. It was raining a little but, coming from a city, the view—the green landscape that seemed to stretch forever—was truly awesome. Eventually, we reached the town of Hanover—there were students everywhere. Trips had just begun, and there was awesome energy in every corner of campus.
The bus pulled around the green, passing Baker Tower and Rauner Library; then past Robinson Hall, full of colorful banners and students dressed in bright outfits, some sporting dyed hair. We halted at the stoplight in front of Collis, our Center for Student Involvement. There, a group of students crossed the street—they were rugby players, judging by their uniforms. One of them turned to look into the bus and, all of the sudden, her face lit up.
Two seats to my left, a girl who had previously been reading jumped up—laughing, waving, nearly running out of the bus—and hollered to her friends, who were now just as jittery from excitement. The light turned green and we headed for the bus stop. The girl's friends walked over and crowded around her as she exited the bus. They hugged and laughed their hearts out amidst the growing crowd of returning students and first-years, as if nothing else mattered. I grabbed my luggage and headed towards the beautiful, bright mess that was Robinson Hall, knowing that I made the right choice. I was finally at Dartmouth. I was home.
Through Dartmouth's Guarini Institute for International Study, I am getting to take classes and experience life at Wellesley College, an all-women's school!
