Due to my athletic schedule, study-abroad program, and my student visa, I landed up having to take Sophomore Summer off (that is, I'm not taking classes this term
Jul Thomson
2020
Explorers own summer at Dartmouth
Summer at Dartmouth
Learn how Dartmouth students experience leadership-defining epiphanies and build unbreakable bonds during their summers on campus.
I hope you are enjoying summer and some sunny weather, wherever you are!
Ali Duke
What is an open house? Why should I come to this and not other programming? Will there be real, live students and professors to interact with? Here's a quick glance at some of the things you’ll get to do during our open houses!
Ali Duke
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...
Brian Drisdelle
2021
There are three big indicators that spring has arrived in Hanover, New Hampshire: a campus full of pastels, strawberries at the Hop, and perhaps most obviously, the Green, once covered in seemingly unmeltable snow, now covered in both grass (that
Amy Guan
2020
My introduction to Dartmouth began with Trips, a student-led pre-orientation program where incoming freshmen venture out into the New Hampshire outdoors.
Cindy Shen
2021
Dartmouth Bound is the reason that I am currently a student at Dartmouth College.
Michael Green
2021
As the dust settles from another application cycle, campus is buzzing with visitors. Spring brings a wonderful mix of admitted students trying Dartmouth on and the new fresh faces of juniors just starting to wade into our pool.
Angie Estevez Prada
Winter provides plenty of great opportunities to take great pictures or
Jon Scott
2019
Summer at Dartmouth
The Green is the setting for the Hopkins Center for the Arts' free contagiously danceable concerts. Often preceded by dance lessons to encourage crowd participation, attendance often reaches 4,000 members of the Dartmouth and Upper Valley communities at these summer music events.
You can often find Dartmouth's Beekeping Association members at the Organic Farm, tending the hives, learning the basics of apiculture, conducting research, and collecting honey to sell at weekly summer farm stands.
The Hanover Chamber of Commerce hosts a weekly farmers market that transforms the Dartmouth Green into a must-attend event filled with fresh, locally-grown produce, meats, herbs, cheeses, flowers, plants, dairy, baked goods, and locally prepared foods. Lemonade and kettle corn is a student-favorite.
Summer Traditions
Sophomore Summer
A hallmark of the D-Plan, Sophomore Summer brings the entire class of rising juniors to campus for customized study and shared adventures. As a second-year student, you’ll be the buzz in Dartmouth’s hive of activity with key leadership roles such as club president, team captain, or editor of “The D,” America’s oldest college newspaper.
Summer at Dartmouth
A smaller student body means that summer classes are able to move outside and work on projects that utilize the campus environment. Here, Assistant Professor of Art History, Nick Camerienghi and his students layout a gothic cathedral at the BEMA to demonstrate how medieval masons used simple tools and basic geometry to build soaring cathedrals.
Read more about this class project.
Sophomore summer is a uniting experience. With your entire class on campus as the ONLY class on campus, you'll connect in a way that is reminiscent of First-Year Trips, bonding while seeing the stars from the golf course, enjoying classes you might not take during any other time in your academic experience, and getting a visit from your family during Sophomore Parents Weekend.
The New York Theater Workshop has been spending its summers in residency at Dartmouth for more than 25 years. Over the course of their three-week residency, six of their projects receive an intensive workshop, constructive feedback, a staged reading for the public, and the attention of a dramaturg, actors, and Dartmouth Theater students and faculty.
Summer Newsfeed
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“It was learning experience for a lot of our students,” says Farm Manager Laura Braasch.
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Engineering and a love of sports propelled the two researchers.
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The weeklong residency is the first of three summer theater workshops on campus.
