<p>hahaha i LOVE it!</p>
<p>Well it doesn't llok like there's many alternative sources of dates, so it would really be good to know...Any Dartmouth students around to answer?</p>
<p>lol slicmlic...You speak as an appicant or a D student?</p>
<p>well, unlike a college like Harvard or Georgetown or Columbia, I'm sure Dartmouth students pretty much only date amongst themselves, instead of branching out to the surrounding town. In a rural setting, the most obvious source of boy/girlness is at the college itself.</p>
<p>Actually, this is really cheesy, but one of the things that made me fall deeply in love with Dartmouth was a brochure they sent out...it included a picture of a couple walking in the snow, bundled up with her head on his shoulder...captioned "Love blossoms in the winter" or some such thing...aww...</p>
<p>Haha, it sounds like some ad for the honeymoon suite in a ski resort.</p>
<p>:( </p>
<p>I told you it was cheesy...pero...me gusta....</p>
<p>but it makes sense, I suppose. at D you'll find people who are mentally on your level that you'll be able to connect with. and random hookups too haha</p>
<p>if it's anything like boarding school, the scene is very polarized into random hookups and long-term relationships. being able to be with that special someone (i just had to work that phrase in there somehow) 24/7 is intense, and so you find out very quickly whether or not a relationship is going to work.
i've heard it said that dating for three days here (boarding school) is like three weeks at a "normal" school.</p>
<p>yup, that's exactly what my friend who goes to boarding school said.</p>
<p>skyandsea, where do you go to school?</p>
<p>mm... southern newhampshire ("seacoast region", technically, as they're quite proud of the ten miles of coastline...), confused about our color identity (red or crimson?), bush did NOT go here...</p>
<p>(exetah)</p>
<p>hahahaha oh those crazy red states. Exeter, really? That's where John Irving went (and taught, i think?)</p>
<p>unrelated, is anyone else's View First Unread link NOT WORKING?! because...mine's not, and only on THIS particular board, and it's really irritating lol</p>
<p>haha we were NOT red. </p>
<p>and here's a serious plug for going to school in new hampshire: i got to hear every democratic candidate speak (except for edwards and sharpton). kerry, clark, dean, even kucinich... i heard them all. and i wasn't even involved in a campaign. they simply spoke at my school. i got to go in the cnn election 2004 bus, as my photo class spent a morning poking around their equipment. that was right before they filmed crossfire in our assembly hall.</p>
<p>new hampshire might be a strange state at times, but no sales tax and an important primary... more than makes up for it.</p>
<p>and, bluirinka, i'm very surprised that you mentioned john irving instead of....</p>
<p>DAN BROWN!!!!!!!</p>
<p>(who my english teacher taught oh so many years ago and says was really not that good at english.)</p>
<p>yeah, my dartmouth tour guide told me she had running bets with how many democrat primary people she could get into one picture...i think she ended up with 5...ha....</p>
<p>wow sky that's such an incredible opportunity! and i didn't even know Dan Brown went to Exeter...I remember we passed it on our way to Maine in August and I was like "oh yeah, isn't that what John Irving based Gravesend Academy on in Owen Meany?"</p>
<p>but anyway, you have Dan Brown and John Irving...my school has THE GIRL WHO PLAYED ANNIE IN THE ORIGINAL ANNIE! there are actually a bunch of other well known people, but i mean come on, Annie is CLASSIC</p>
<p>Clint Eastwood and McNamara went to my high school...</p>
<p>And Greenday lives in my town...</p>
<p>I. LOVE. GREENDAY.</p>
<p>i've been to two concerts in my life, theirs was the second...they are amaaaaazing in concert.</p>
<p>actually, lots of famous people come from my neck of NJ. Tara Reid lived in Wyckoff - that band, Fountains of Wayne, is from - dun dun dun - WAYNE. and that Numa Numa kid is from Saddle Brook, unbelievably enough. i forgot other famous people, but i know there are more</p>
<p>ETA: i got the feeling that all the people at the Oscars were secretly playing a game called "How many times can we say Clint Eastwood's name in one night" lol</p>
<p>lol those were the most boring oscars I have ever seen. And I was so mad Hotel Rwanda wasn't even nominated for "Best Picture."</p>
<p>And I am going to a private party/fundraiser-y thing at one of my friends' house, and Greenday is going to be there. I'm excited. :D </p>
<p>(PS- my 2,100th post officially given to the Dartmouth board!)</p>
<p>hee!</p>
<p>are you SERIOUS? i better be invited. after all, i was told by my ED Penn crew that me and Nancy were the hottest girls out of the group, which qualified me for status as a groupie for Akash's band! why not Green Day too?!</p>
<p>I'm so happy your 2,100th post was on my thread. Its like getting an oscar for best producer.</p>
<p>Famous people from the West Suburbs....uh.......oh yeah. Jim Belushi went to COD, which is a community college near here. (College of DuPage, for non-locals, also affectionately known as College of Dreams, Crap, oh Damn, or UCLA (University closest to the Lombard area). </p>
<p>And Hillary Clinton grew up in Park Ridge</p>