<p>I will be attending dartmouth college fall of 2011 as a freshman, and am currently a HS senior. I want to pursue a double major in engineering and music (or a minor/modified major in music - whichever is more doable) and was wondering if this would be doable. Along with this I will be rowing on the crew team and wish to participate in either theater or the barbary coast Jazz ensemble. Is this all possible?? Or is this just too much to handle? I would love some feedback.</p>
<p>Very doable</p>
<p>Thats great to hear! Now is that in reference to my desired course of study or participating in the extracurriculars alongside being on the crew team? I have just had too many people that are telling me I will never find time to do this.</p>
<p>You can do all of those things pretty easily. Crew is 2-3 hours/day + around every other weekend in the spring, jazz ensemble will probably be 2 hours a few times per week, and theater will probably be about the same. Maybe I’m underestimating the time commitment on one or two of those, but all in all, it’s not that much. It’s definitely going to require you to manage your time moderately well, but you should be fine with that schedule.</p>
<p>Thanks that gives me some hope! I was just worrying not only about managing the time commitment, but also about the actual time of the activities as well. I know the block of time that crew takes place Is a popular time for other activities- for example, I hope that the jazz ensemble and theater productions don’t all rehearse from
3-6 like crew does because then I’m outa luck.</p>
<p>You’ll figure it out. People do amazing things at Dartmouth – double majors, extracurriculars, even time for a GF.</p>
<p>Crew is time-consuming but it seems that after freshman year the rowers who decide to continue will then stay with it for the next three years- very few if any drop out of the sport. This spring my son’s team has had regattas every weekend for the past four weekends and the team usually leaves campus on Friday in the morning or midday so he misses any classes held then and has to make up the work. In the fall he has head races for a few weekends as well. Winter break includes a week of training in Austin and Spring break is a week at Oak Ridge, TN. That said, he is an engineering major which requires lots of lab hours and he has friends on the team who are pre-med so it is possible to do a lot of things as long as you are well-organized. Lots of them are in frats too.</p>
<p>Are you joining the heavyweight or lightweight team?</p>
<p>I’m on the heavyweight team</p>
<p>Dartmouth Forever: are you kidding me? crew is one of the most time consuming activities on campus. why do you think it starts out with 50+ people, and when spring term comes, theres only about 10 left? i speak from experience, sorry OP, but you wont be able to do crew and engineering. you have to make sacrifices. for confirmation, ask people who have actually been in crew.</p>
<p>My son has been very involved in crew for his four years at Dartmouth (he’s now the captain of his team) and he is graduating in a couple of weeks as a biomedical engineering major. He was also an officer in his frat. It is all doable as long as you can manage your time well. I’m sure he’s made sacrifices in terms of missing out on some things but I don’t think he regrets any of the choices he’s made. </p>
<p>There have not been that many dropouts, in my view. This spring the heavyweight and lightweight men’s teams each had two freshmen 8+ boats- so 16 freshmen in each team stayed with it for the entire year. Each team also had three varsity 8+ boats, or another 24 rowers. At Eastern Sprints we had 80 rowers and 10 coxswains competing in all. The women’s team also has multiple boats. It’s a time-consuming sport but a lot of people manage.</p>
<p>yes, momofrower got most of it right. i forgot to mention that there are about 8 varsity recruits, and almost all of the team are walk-ons. your son must be on top of his stuff, not many people can do that. if you can afford making sacrifices and are good at managing time, then it would be possible. excruciating, rather.</p>
<p>A lot of my good friends are walk-ons on the crew team. (Some of my other friends dropped out.)</p>
<p>People drop out because of the time commitment, but also because the sport is absurdly physically taxing…the erg is a ****ing torture machine</p>
<p>also, bnicholas, engineering takes most people 5 years, so you might wanna think about that</p>