<p>Depends on what you mean by “culturally vibrant.” Do you want to go clubbing and a ton of concerts or do you mean fine arts and high-brow culture? Because Dartmouth offers a ton of opportunities for students-watching the Met’s operas to working with professional artists in studios (I even heard a rumor that Christo and Jeanne-Claude are going to be the artists-in-residence this spring) to lecture-but very few students take advantage of the opps. Pace of life on campus is ridiculously fast that its hard to make it to everything you want. Even if we were close to a city, we prob wouldn’t have time to go anyway.</p>