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Now, I am wrapping up my first year at Dartmouth. After reflecting on my experience thus far, I want to offer some advice to prospective and admitted students.

I want to talk about a very important and special project that happened this past weekend. The Carnival: The Caribbean Experience took place at the Shabazz Center for Intellectual Inquiry.

During Week 8, a group of Dartmouth students and I implemented a tendedero (clothesline project) for public dialogue.

From September 15 through October 15, Latinx Heritage Month is celebrated in the United States. As an international student coming from Brazil, I was genuinely excited to experience a month of commemoration to the place and culture I call home.

A kid from Southern California packs his bags and heads east. He arrives at Dartmouth College and begins a new life. I wonder what he will do? It is Fall, the leaves begin to change, what else will change with time?

Hanover may be in a rural location, but we are far from isolated. In the summer of 2019, my close friends were able to shake hands with President Joe Biden and take selfies with Vice President Kamala Harris. 

I think I’ve learned more this year alone than in most of my high school career, and I probably picked up more knowledge in one term of physics than in two years of AP. But this year has had far more to it than just academics...