Hi guys! The name's Tulio (yes, like the guy from Rio) Huggins, and I am a '23! I am from the beautiful state of Pennsylvania, where I have lived for the past couple of years. I am double majoring in History and English with a concentration in Creative Writing. In my free time, I love to hang out with friends at Dartmouth Apologia, my fraternity, and in Aquinas House! Feel free to ask any questions you might have. I hope that you all have a blessed day!
Academic Program
History & English with Concentration in Creative Writing
Favorite Thing Right Now
Hanging out with my fraternity brothers and hanging out in Aquinas House!
This history class is dedicated to investigating the history behind current events. In this term, we looked at the history behind immigration, Silicon Valley, and affirmative action. And in the final weeks of the term, we were able to choose what we wanted to learn about, and we chose to look at the history of impeachment. It is a very cool class with great class discussions. I would highly recommend!
COSC 1 is an intro to Computer Science course. I had never taken a CS course, so learning the new Python language was definitely tough! Even so, I learned so much about how to code, and the help provided by TAs and the professors is invaluable in this course!
This was the first class I ever took in the African and African American Studies and Religion Department. It opened my eyes to the various ways African Americans in the Jim Crow era survived when the world was stacked up against them. I would highly recommend!
An interesting class where we focused on the spread of literature during this time period. Also one of my smallest classes; only five other classmates!
This class was a creative writing class, and it gave me a lot of insight into what I as an author should want my readers to do when they confront the piece. It was an amazing class, and it was so cool to be able to take it in London!
My desire to learn about religion and history was thoroughly fulfilled in this class, where we looked at the various Christian conversions in different European areas. I learned a lot, and I really loved the prof's lectures!
SpringOn-Campus
I'm not taking any classes this term! Instead, I am doing a fellowship through the Leslie Center for Humanities, where I am writing an interconnected short story collection set in an evangelical church youth group.
This was my senior seminar for my history class, and we learned about the many Native American treaties that occurred for the centuries of US-Indigenous interaction
An English & History Major Walks into A Physics Class
With Dartmouth being a liberal arts college, there's an emphasis on not just gaining a depth of knowledge in a specific field, but also a larger breadth of knowledge, pushing you to think in different ways. That means that no matter your major, you'll still have the opportunity to take classes in other departments and disciplines. For me, that means I will take STEM courses, even though I am a History and English double major.
Even though I appreciate and agree with the reasoning for having students take a broad range of classes, going into the Spring term, I was nervous about taking the last Science distributive to graduate. There are various distributives Dartmouth students take, such as a Thought, Meaning, and Value distributive and a Technical and Applied Sciences distributive. They're umbrella concepts Dartmouth wants you to interact with as a student, and the ones that are more prevalent in the humanities/social sciences are easily completed for me in my major classes.
However, I think with these distributive requirements, students can rest assured that there are different ways with getting these done. For example, for my last Science distributive, I am currently taking a class called "Understanding the Universe: From Atoms to the Big Bang" with Professor Marcelo Glesier, a well-known Physics & Astronomy professor. The course looks at scientific discoveries and belief systems through a historical lens, learning through the writings of both famous scientists and historians on science. At the start of the term, for example, we were learning about the Pre-Socratics such as Anaximander and Anaximenes, and their views on what the world was made of!
This class's emphasis isn't necessarily on equations or problem sets, but more on the procession of thoughts on what the world is made of and how it works. This really works for me, since I can learn a specific aspect of a broader STEM subject and also get a distributive out of this! I think classes like these are common here, and I think it allows students to learn more outside of their majors!
It's hard to believe that it has been a year since I wrote my first end-of-fall-term reflection. It felt like only yesterday that I stepped into my dorm room this September, eager to reunite with my friends.
Applying early to a university can be overwhelming and confusing. As someone who did not apply to Dartmouth through early decision, here are a couple tips that I could have used when thinking about applying early to a school!
