Hey!! I'm Eloise and this is my blog! I'm a '28 from New Holland, Pennsylvania. I love to read and write in my free time and I'm so excited to get involved in clubs at Dartmouth. I love exploring the outdoors and I can't wait to go on more trips with the Dartmouth Outing Club. I hope you enjoy my blog!
This course covers modern American history through an imperial lens. It was my first time learning about these topics and events in-depth, and I learned so much! The class focuses on small group discussions and having nuanced conversations about assigned readings. It was the perfect class for my first fall! I cannot recommend this class enough!
This course was my first-year seminar, a portion of the Dartmouth first-year writing sequence. In this class, we read four Jane Austen novels and discussed them as a class. The best part was our final project: creating an exhibit to be displayed in Baker-Berry Library! In partnership with Rauner Special Collections Library, we worked with Austen's first editions and designed an exhibit to celebrate Austen’s 250 Birthday.
This course introduces different types of sociological research methods, which culminate in a final research proposal to explore the topic of your choice. I'm not a sociology major, so I was intimidated at first, but I fell in love with the class and the topics. I stepped outside my comfort zone, and I learned so much. I highly recommend it!
SummerWashington, D.C.
For my first off-term at Dartmouth, I spent the summer in Washington, D.C. as a First-Year Fellow through the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy at Dartmouth. I interned at the House of Representatives, where I met constituents, politicians, and legislative staffers who help run our country. I learned so much about policy issues close to my heart, like animal rights and climate change. I also had so much fun exploring D.C. with the other fellows and learning about our nation’s capital!
This course is a requirement for English majors and discusses literary history from the early 10th century to the mid-17th century. We read Beowulf, works from Chaucer and Spenser, and tales about King Arthur and his knights. I loved exploring the worlds of romance and fantasy, while also learning about the historical significance and influence of these works. This class was so fun and it was a great introduction to the English department!
A big part of the Upper Valley community is the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center(DHMC). It's an important education and research site for the undergraduate and graduate students of Dartmouth and it offers high-quality healthcare to patients.
To ensure DHMC and the pediatric hospital, Children's Hospital at Dartmouth (CHaD), are able to operate to their fullest capacity and support families, organizers raise money through the CHaD HERO, an annual race.
For 20 years, the CHaD HERO has been a community day of running events ranging from a fun one mile run to a half marathon. Finishers receive medals and bragging rights, but more importantly, the money raised from the event goes back to the children's hospital.
Students normally get involved in the CHaD HERO and run it with their friends or club groups. This year, I knew a few people running it and I wanted to cheer them on while they did!
My floormates and I knew we wanted to cheer on the runners the moment our friend, Molly, told us she was planning on running the half-marathon. To help cheer her on, a couple days before the race we made posters in Collis to hold while cheering. On the posters, we wrote encouraging words and inside jokes in bright colors so she'd see them as she ran by.
Pari and Reece holding up signs for our friends running!
The day of the race we woke up early to figure out the perfect place to stand and cheer our friends on. After walking past the library, we found our spot at an intersection near Occom Pond, which was directly on the race route.
On the other side of the street were some musicians playing music, which was really nice to listen to while we waited for the runners to pass through.
Musicians playing at the intersection of the race!
In the beginning, all the runners start and run together until they split up to run their respective distances. Since we were stationed so early on the route, we saw all the runners, no matter if they were running the 5k or half marathon.
This was a perfect way to cheer on all my friends as they ran past! We also cheered on all the other students, kids, and community members.
After we saw our friends, we packed up our spot and ate breakfast at the dining hall. We knew a rough estimate of when Molly would be finishing her half-marathon and made sure to get to the finish line before she did to cheer her on.
Reece walking to cheer on our friends!
The finish line was so electric! All the cheering and joy from the runners and supporters was amazing! We cheered for Molly as she ran across the finish line and met up with her afterwards to congratulate her.
It was such a special day spent supporting my friends, but more importantly supporting the CHaD and raising money for a good cause!
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!
