These Are a Few of My Favorite Things

It’s finally here: the end of my freshman year. It seems like it has flown by, but I have so many amazing memories. All of my friends from home repeatedly ask, “How do you like Dartmouth?” and I only have one answer: “I absolutely love it!” So now that the year is coming to a close, I have been reflecting on some of my favorite memories from each term.

Fall: My first term was pretty busy because we were in season. We traveled almost every weekend, so we spent a lot of time together as a team. Some of my favorite memories from fall term were on the bus. A few of our bus rides were pretty long, so our team started watching the Friday Night Lights television series. We would all (even our coaches) get really into it and yell at the characters. We even started looking forward to bus rides because we were excited to watch the show.

Winter: Winter in New Hampshire was a completely new concept for me because at home, it doesn’t get below 45 degrees. Elisa and Vivian started laughing at me the first day it snowed because I was so excited. My favorite day in the winter was when we went iceskating! Elisa, Vivian, and I went to Occom Pond with some friends, and we rented skates. We spent all afternoon skating around the pond (I struggled a little bit) and watching some students play pick-up games of ice hockey.

Spring: Now that the weather is starting to warm up, everyone is taking advantage of being outside. It seems like whenever the sun is out, everyone flocks to the Green. On this past Thursday, it was sunny and 75 degrees. Being from southern California, I miss the sun, so I spent all day outside! After conditioning in the morning, I had breakfast outside Collis with Meghan, Annie, and Alissa. Then while they had class, I did some of my reading on the Green. Eventually Elisa came and joined me, and we took a nap under the sun. We later even took our lunch outside to the Green. In the afternoon, I went to my seminar, and our professor allowed us to sit outside for class. I’m happy to say that my arms and legs got a little darker that day (even though they still look pretty pale from being covered up all winter). Hopefully summer will take care of that!

- Rose Dicovitsky '14