When it’s 70 degrees and sunny, the halls of Baker-Berry are empty; the entire campus is outside.
Catherine Parnell
2022
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Summer at Dartmouth
Learn how Dartmouth students experience leadership-defining epiphanies and build unbreakable bonds during their summers on campus.
absolutely loved being a Resident Advisor and resource for my group of Dartmouth Bound students, and I was so impressed with all of them and their willingness to get to know each other even within such a short time frame.
Emma Rodriguez
2020
At the end of this term, I’ll immediately be driving down to Kentucky with the Mountaineering Club, where we’ll be camping out and rock climbing at Red River Gorge.
Brian Drisdelle
2021
Dartmouth winters are frosty and beautiful, but since I'm unfortunately not on campus right now, let's talk about summer for a second!
Cindy Shen
2021
This summer I took one of my favorite classes to date: a history seminar called Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration in US History.
Sarah LeHan
2020
Professor Monahan, early modern trade extraordinaire, is an expert on Russian history. She’s also an expert climber. This summer in HIST 54, my friend Rachel and I (along with our eleven other classmates) heard about her exploits in both.
Sarah LeHan
2020
Hanover is a gorgeous New England town, but every now and again I want to venture out into a big city, so the Dartmouth Coach becomes my best friend for a few weekends every year.
Alexis Colbert
2019
There’s nothing quite like first year trips. You spend five days around New Hampshire hiking or canoeing or sailing or horseback riding or cabin camping, etc. sans phone, so you have no choice but to get to know the people around you.
Isabel Burgess
2020
You can pretty much do anything your heart is set on, and most of the times you can also get funding if it’s unpaid. The opportunities are endless!
Jenny Chen
2021
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.
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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.
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