Now that fall is here to stay, I want to share a weekend from sophomore summer featuring X-Fest and Farmaroo (which are not as crazy as they may seem).
Jenny Chen
2021
Explorers own summer at Dartmouth
Visiting Resources
Summer at Dartmouth
Learn how Dartmouth students experience leadership-defining epiphanies and build unbreakable bonds during their summers on campus.
The Lodge is Dartmouth's very own rustic mountain lodge in the White Mountains of New Hampshire (just a couple hours from campus) that is open for guests and students most of the year!
Simon Ellis
2020
With some other girls in my sorority, I planned to hike Gile Mountain and watch the sunrise from the top of the tower – neither of which I had done before.
Jenny Chen
2021
As we walked around the city, introducing ourselves and talking about our lives, I began to feel more and more comfortable with the strangers I had just met.
Shuyi Jin
2023
Here are some of my favourite shots from the summer.
Julianna Thomson
2020
The Prouty raises funds for Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center, the only cancer center in northern New England.
Jenny Chen
2021
BHI's projects include hospitals in Haiti, Sierra Leone, and Malawi, a BSL-3 lab in Peru, a solar grid for a hospital in Niger, and more.
Isabel Burgess
2020
Every summer, members of the sophomore class stay on campus and take classes.
Julianna Thomson
2020
Since my birthday also falls close to July 4th, there were some on-campus events, no school on a Thursday, and a weekend for my sister to visit via the Dartmouth Coach from Boston.
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 Beekeeping 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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Graduates are chosen by their fellow students for their service and initiative. -
Cherokee metal type, called a syllabary, is now in use at the Book Arts Workshop. -
The Magnuson Center and west end expansion are creating fertile ground for innovators.
