End of term

I have not been very good about updating my blog lately, but it's been a very hectic end of term. I miraculously managed to not fail chemistry.

My mom visited at the very beginning and we went to Boston together, which was great. I hadn't seen my mom for three and a half months and I really missed her. We went shopping and walked around (but only a little - the weather was crazy bad!).

She also came up to campus for a day or so before we went to Boston, so I got to show her around. We walked legitimately everywhere we could on campus - Occom Pond, Leverone Field House, my dorms by the Connecticut River, etc. If you look at a map of campus, you'll see that we criss-crossed it a lot. I also showed her the newsroom at The D (where I spend probably 10 hours a week) and how I walk to class and such.

Tomorrow is her birthday so I'm mailing her a package with coffee from Dirt Cowboy Cafe and a book and seeds and a card. And confetti, which will probably make a mess when she opens the package but it's pretty and sparkly so hopefully she won't mind.

I love Dartmouth students because...

When someone forgets their ID card (which you use to buy food) or the strip on theirs won't swipe, more than one student will say, "Here, you can use mine."

It warms my heart a little every time I see someone buy a stranger's meal. It sounds corny but it's true.

Cool classes

There is an English class here called "Bob Dylan" and it focuses on reading Bob Dylan lyrics. Is that not insanely cool? I want to take this class so badly. SO BADLY. Maybe Sophomore Summer? Next term I'm taking a class called "Learning and Education Across Cultures" and another called "The Anthropology of International Health." Sometimes I'm blown away by the awesome classes we have access to here. None of the above mentioned classes even have prerequisites.

I just looked up the professor who teaches the class about Bob Dylan. His areas of expertise are:

"19th- and early 20th-century American literature; literary theory; autobiography; Edgar Allan Poe; Wallace Stevens; Robert Frost; Bob Dylan."

Amazing!