View from Above

I guess I will be posting twice today, since I decided not to sacrifice sleep for a blog post.

Yesterday was packed with open houses. I attended Chemistry, Classics, Linguistics, German, International Studies, and the Baker-Berry Library. Whew! I almost didn't have enough time to eat during the day, so thank goodness the German department served lunch. I was extremely impressed and overwhelmed with the variety of opportunities each department had to offer. The professors were so kind, enthusiastic about their fields, and eager just to sit down and converse with students one-on-one. I think I may have experienced my first Linguistics lecture about the evolution of the Latin language! Now I really cannot wait to take LING 1 with Prof. Pulju. Although the Classics department open house further solidified my decision to be a classical archaeology major, I was inspired to branch out to other subjects during my four years here and become a more well-rounded student. Perhaps I will attend an LSA in Berlin, or add some Asian/Middle Eastern Studies to my repertoire of knowledge. I am so thankful that my roommate suggested that we visit the Dickey Center together. This opened up a whole new world to me, and I would love to see myself in INTS 17: Cultures, Places and Identities!

During the afternoon, I visited the Dr. Seuss-themed open house at Baker-Berry. Dartmouth has so many resources, from audiobooks, to foreign literature, to Rauner's special collections... and I hope that I will have the opportunity to utilize them all! The highlight of my day was getting access to the library tower. The wait was a bit tedious, and the climb was quite frightening (the stairs were steep and very narrow, and I was always paranoid about tripping through the cracks), but the view from above was well worth it. I think Dartmouth's campus is very nice on ground level, but from an aerial perspective, it is breathtaking. Of course, the clear, sunny weather just enriched the beauty already radiating from the green.