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At home, back in Edison, I usually celebrated Lunar New Year with my family. I was unsure about how I would celebrate this year until a college-wide email was sent out inviting students to a Lunar New Year Festival hosted at the HOP.

Yes, my friends, it was time for the infamous Dartmouth snowball fight, where the entire college is summoned to the Green at midnight to have a massive snowball fight.

During the first large snowfall of the school year, our esteemed alumnus Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss) rises from his eternal slumber to send one very Seuss-like email to the entirety of campus.

A snowball fight? On the Green? At midnight?

While eating dinner with my friends one day, I checked my email and saw a message from…. Dr. Seuss?

At the time of writing this, homecoming will be long past. But, even after several weeks, I still look fondly on it. 

Eating dinner with my fellow Native students and hearing them introduce themselves in the languages of their tribes and peoples was not only uniquely beautiful but enriching in a different way entirely.

Dartmouth has a pre-orientation tradition of taking hundreds of incoming freshmen into the wilderness for several days for a program we call First Year Trips.