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.
Your application is your story. It's your way of introducing yourself to the colleges on your list, and the goal is to share your personal narrative in a confident, clear, and compelling way. Years from now, you'll do something similar as you apply for jobs and write a cover letter that accompanies your resume.
Coming from California, I was used to being able to eat a variety of Asian food: ramen, boba, curry. As I adjust to my new life here, it's nice that there's something that resembles what I had back home.
One thing that I had yet to do on campus was make jewelry at the Donald Claflin Jewelry Studio. Although the rings I made would definitely not be sellable, I learned so much about the process of jewelry-making.
Between a busy class schedule and numerous cultural activities, taking time to stop and appreciate a good book or piece of art has been hard. However, this week I took the conscious decision to step it up and make the arts a part of my routine!
Student Assembly is Dartmouth's student government and represents the interests of all undergraduate students. Aside from fun projects, Student Assembly gets to work with Dartmouth's administration when making policy affecting all of campus.
Though September seems so long ago, it's quite a marvel that I've finished my first term at college! I'm officially an "adult" and have survived on my own, with lots of good memories and fantastic people by my side.
For this coming winter, I am hoping to take Distributed Systems and Fields (ENGS 23), Industrial Ecology (ENGS 171), and Modern Architecture (ARTH 47.02).
In what ways has the Dartmouth community helped you balance academic and personal pursuits?
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At Dartmouth, academics require a large time commitment. Because of the quarter system, classes move fast, covering what is a semester's worth of content at most schools in only ten weeks.
With course selection for the upcoming Winter term bearing down on students, a lot of my friends have been asking each other what cool classes they should take, what upcoming distributive requirements they can fulfill, and talking about how they a
What experience/class/program at Dartmouth has been the most memorable for you?
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I absolutely adore my Fall term classes! I'm taking Writing 5: Gender and Holocaust, Psychology 1, and QSS17 (Quantitative Social Science) Data Visualization.
Dartmouth's a pretty rural campus. What do you do for fun?
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Good question! To be honest, I had the same concern coming here; as a kid who's used to cities, driving downtown and whatnot, it was weird imagining what I would do in a town where the only franchises included a single CVS and a miscellaneous Domi
How frequently are students able to enroll in the classes they want?
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Great question! I'd say that most students definitely get into all of the classes that they want with varying degrees of success. Most are able to get into at least one they're really hoping for.
Last week I got a question from a prospective '24 who, after talking with me for a while, got a little overwhelmed with hearing about all of the extracurriculars I spoke about in addition to my seemingly impossible academic schedule.
Can I conduct my own research as an undergrad in my field of choice (even if it's not STEM related)?
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Definitely! There are a ton of opportunities to get involved with research even in non-STEM fields. One popular program to secure a research position and funding is through the Sophomore and Junior Research Scholars program.
