You know you’re at Dartmouth when… (4/19 – 4/21)

One of the signs of Spring is swarms of Prospies rather than swarms of mosquitoes.

Dimensions weekend was so much fun.  It brought back so many memories from last year when I was first accepted to Dartmouth.  A lot of my friends hosted prospies, so even though I didn’t host my own, I spent time with a lot of them.  Meili’s friend Stephanie, who is more likely to choose Stanford, came from Encinitas to visit, and Hersh, who is choosing between here and Swarthmore, was assigned to Pranam.  They are very accomplished students, and I hope Dimensions left a good impression on them.  The green looked so lively with the ‘16s around – I miss the excitement and sunny weather that was replaced by rain the day after everyone left.

Much of my Dimensions experience this year involved Glee Club.  We had our open rehearsal on Thursday, which was also the last rehearsal before recording.  One of our sopranos was a fake prospie and Louis had a “senior moment,” almost giving away the surprise: “So, if you’re a ’16, how do you already know the music?” Haha.  After rehearsal ended, a group of us walked to Phi Tau to bake for Friday’s Milque and Cookies event, and we brought a prospie with us!  His name was Ethan, and I really hope we see him in Glee next year.  We watched one of the Phi Tau brothers prepare to assemble edible Roman architecture, and we tried a simpler recipe.  Our cookies ended up being of the citrus snicker-doodle variety.  I don’t know if any of the other bakers tried our cookies on Friday, but I thought they came out pretty tasty.  After Milque and Cookies, I briefly stopped at Roll into Spring to say hi to DJS and steal onigiri, but I had to hurry to the hop for our classical music concert.  The Glee Club sang Sleep by Eric Whitacre and Joshua by Moses Hogan.  Meili and Pranam attended the concert with their prospies, and we dined at Yama together afterward.  After that night, I had to get to work to study for midterms, which I didn’t do particularly well on.  IYAAAAAA DAME DA! IT'STHEENDOFTHEWORLDIDON'TKNOWHOWTOHANDLETHIS!!!

Thanks Etai for almost sacrificing your life on the Green and getting eaten by a Zombie while cheering me up with an anecdote about failing a math test.


And thanks Meili and Pranam for bringing me out of my room for a relaxing evening of "My Fair Lady." It made me feel so much better about Linguistics!