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There’s no one Dartmouth story. People Places Pines is here to share the lives of Dartmouth students — and offer a little admissions advice along the way.

People Places Pines

With a max word count of 100, my cursor blinked mockingly at me. I already knew I wanted to attend Dartmouth, and I knew why—I wanted the small tight-knit community, the beautiful campus, and most importantly, the vibe that campus radiated to me.

Luke Grayson 2025

Study Abroad Applications!

Curious about what applying for study abroad looks like at Dartmouth? Here's my experience!

Brandon Mioduszewski 2025

Life during Winterim

I want to utilize this blog post to update you all on my life and what I typically do in my day.

Toni Fabian 2025

My Experience With Greek Life

There is a place for everyone here as long as you're willing to look for it!

Eva Hymes 2025

My Winter Term Classes!

Here are my experiences so far in the classes I'm taking Winter Term!

Chelsea Mills 2026

Introducing My First-Year LLC!

What is a Living Learning Community, exactly? And what's it like to live in one? Here's my experience so far with LLCs and the Asian and Asian American LLC!

Olivia Koo 2026

Dartmouth students constructing cardboard chairs in the Couch Lab

Making A Cardboard Chair For My Engineering Class

For the past two weeks, I've been working on a fascinating project for my engineering class.

Chidera Duru 2025

My first Northern Pike I caught this week!

Hobbies are More Important Than You Realize!

I've spent some time reconnecting with old hobbies, and it made me realize just how important they are… especially in college.

Gavin Fry 2025

Winter Term: Week 3 Reflection

I am writing this blog post as I finish up my week 3 of the winter term as a sophomore.

Toni Fabian 2025

Baker Berry and a beautiful snow covered tree!

Clubs and Interdisciplinary Learning at Dartmouth

Dartmouth uses the liberal arts system, which means you gain an education in a range of subjects! Here is how that plays into clubs and interests at Dartmouth!

Luke Grayson 2025

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Greek Life and Dartmouth

What's something you wish you knew about Dartmouth before attending?

Coming to Dartmouth I did not realize how prominent Greek life is on campus.

Tulio Huggins 2023

Reflecting on my support and resources at Dartmouth

For international students: What resources have proved most helpful for you as a Dartmouth student?

Great question! First, I want to highlight that being an international student doesn't significantly impact your daily life at Dartmouth.

Shuyi Jin 2023

Greek Life at Dartmouth

Can you be a part of the Dartmouth community without joining Greek life?

Student smiling holding Dartmouth banner

Approximately 60% of Dartmouth's students are involved in Greek life, which includes three gender-inclusive chapters, ten sororities, and fourteen fraternities.

Love Tsai 2023

Housing Communities at Dartmouth

What are housing communities at Dartmouth? What's so special about residential life?

Housing at Dartmouth is unique—here are the ends and outs from a first-year student's perspective!

Housing Community Overview

Garrett Crouch 2026

D-Plan Specifics

What exactly is the D-plan? What are some intricacies of academic planning at Dartmouth?

With the D-plan, planning your academic journey at Dartmouth becomes a fairly nuanced task. Let's talk about it!

Academic Planning/D-Plan

Garrett Crouch 2026

Working a Campus Job

How do campus jobs work?

Whenever students are on campus, the odds are that they have a campus job where they work several hours a week. Almost all of my friends have a job of some sort on campus.

Chase Harvey 2025

Planning My D-Plan

What does your D-Plan look like?

If you have not heard already, Dartmouth's academic calendar runs on a quarter system called the D-Plan where you take 10 week terms. There are four terms in a year, where you must be enrolled in classes for three of the four terms.

Chase Harvey 2025

Having Fun at Dartmouth

What do students do for fun? Are the events mostly on campus or off campus?

FUN noun

\ ˈfən \

Definition of fun

1: what provides amusement or enjoyment, specifically: playful, often boisterous action or speech

Adrian Chimboza 2025

Christian Community at Dartmouth

Can you describe what it's like being a Christian at Dartmouth?

"But if we are living in the light, as God is in the light, then we have fellowship with each other, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, cleanses us from all sin." – 1 John 1:7 NLT

Adrian Chimboza 2025