<p>Someone give me a realistic day at Dartmouth? Or a realistic week?
I understand you are in the middle of nowhere, everyone drinks a ****load, and the academics are next to impossible?
Why Dartmouth?
(Ironically it's my number one choice right now :) )</p>
<p>It's your number one choice, and yet, judging by your post, you know nothing about it. Wonderful.</p>
<p>No other school cares so much about its students. The campus community is tightknit and friendly and the campus is incredibly active on the weekends. Its the social Ivy, without the pretention. It has lots of unique elements (big weekends like Green Key, amazing study abroad, sophomore summer, etc) that seperate it from the other Ivies. The local area is beautiful and students enjoy things like having bbqs in the summer and snowball fights in the winter. Classes are incredibly tailored to students. Professors invite students over for dinner, its that kind of place.</p>
<p>In answer to the thread's title question, I refer to a good friend of mine, a Dartmouth '05, who often said: "Dartmouth is the happiest place on earth. I should know. I've been to Disneyland too."</p>
<p>Beyond that, I'll echo what slipper says: it's very unique, and an absolutely amazing place.</p>