Below is a list of all blog posts from the People Places Pines blog by Dartmouth College.
From meeting people from all across the world to working hard in the East Asian Reading Room in Baker Library until after midnight for a paper, I have gained various memories and experiences that have helped define my freshman year at college.
These past months of navigating uncertainty have no doubt been challenging, but I've been thinking about some lessons that I want to share with you.
Even though I couldn't be on campus for my first Dartmouth spring, being a student at home has been a personal lesson in itself.
Dartmouth seems like a pretty small school. How do you meet new people?
The first thing I realized is that Dartmouth is simultaneously intimate and yet big enough to meet new people everyday.
I saw my friends and professors in the people I pass on my runs, my classes slowed to a snail's pace but in a good way, and I hung onto every word each professor had to offer.
The fact that our professor gave us a free textbook of his own design is amazing. With Dartmouth having a ton of free resources, I figured I might as well use some on my younger siblings!
Even though I am not in Baker, that Dartmouth spirit of reading and learning is alive and well.
A lot of people are curious about how Dartmouth's location affects social life, but something else that I've come to realize is that because of Dartmouth's location, we have some really cool academic perks.
