Welcome to the blog of an Englishman studying at Dartmouth—do take a look around! Hopefully, my blogs will provide you with an insight on life at Dartmouth, and specifically through the eyes of an international student. Dartmouth has a ton to offer from the staggering natural beauty of its surroundings and stellar academic programs to the wonderful people you meet along the way. So stay a while, I'll make us cups of tea, and take a moment to discover life at the College on the Hill.
Testing Testing 1, 2, 3: Starting a Radio Show with my Friends
I've written a lot of blogs in the past in which many of the huge amounts of things to do at Dartmouth have been covered, but perhaps here is one that you haven't heard of: starting your own live radio show! Some friends and I have long been renowned for being great at chatting rubbish. We'll often sit for hours laughing about some dumb stuff with great music in the background in our common room, and the rapport we have is just amazing to be a part of. This term, however, it occurred to us that what we were doing was basically what radio show hosts do!
The WebDCR group sent out their termly email at the start of this term then, and we signed up! Within hours we had a reply asking us for the name of our show and a placeholder photo for the website; honestly, we hadn't thought it through this far and spent a rather long time deliberating. We eventually came up with Lorem Ipsum Dolor (the placeholder message for Microsoft Office apps and academic papers) and used a photo of us in Hawaiian shirts (which can be found on one of my earlier blogs for any Easter egg-hunters out there ;) ).
Here is Robinson Hall... Home to the DOC and now Lorem Ipsum Dolor!
Signing up for this kind of thing was surprisingly easy and accessible – you'd expect there to be a range of skills and checks imposed on you before you can even get near a microphone broadcasting to anyone's room – but in reality, we just signed up and started! None of us had any experience, and it was a really nice experience to just be able to go in and learn everything from scratch.
Our first two sessions have been really fun so far, and I can't wait to get back in the studio! We air at 5 pm on Wednesdays for an hour on WebDCR (shameless plug if anyone wants to check us out), and we generally just have meaningless conversations while playing awesome music.
So there you go, if you end up coming to Dartmouth who knows? You could end up with a radio show!
In this blog, I share how joining Ujima, Dartmouth's oldest hip hop dance team, became not just a creative outlet but a family built on collective work, responsibility, and love.
To the Class of 2030: Congratulations! For those of you who are still making a decision, this blog is intended to give you some tips from my own experience of being in your fortunate (but difficult) position.
Dartmouth offers three student workshops at The Hopkins Center: ceramics, jewelry, and woodwork! Join me on my journey as I explore the non-credit-based arts at Dartmouth and make some interesting handmade objects along the way! Up first, CERAMICS!
Staying connected to significant people in my life is very important to my emotional well being at Dartmouth. Here are some ways I stay social around Hanover and a little bit away in Boston!
