Campus Life

There are three major dining facilities at Dartmouth: 53 Commons, The Hop, and Collis. 53 Commons is all-you-can-eat, and it does a good job to incorporate foods of different ethnicities and offer vegetarian and kosher options. However, like at any university, the dining options get old, and there is not much to diversify with in the small town of Hanover. Food at the Hop and Collis is individually priced, and generally rather expensive.

The food is amazing, with many different meals being prepared daily.

Relative to most colleges--decent. Relative to a normal person--average.

The meal plan, quite honestly, is terrible as there is no flexibility for your eating. Freshman are forced to stay in the 20 meal plan, and since not a lot of people eat breakfast the 20 meal plan can be a disadvantage.

The food around campus is pretty good. We have three main college dining places, (Class of '53 commons AKA Fo Co, The Hop, and the College) In addition to Novack (The library cafe), a snack bar in one of the dorms, and graduate eating places.

With a brand new, all you can eat dining hall that just opened in Fall 2011, the food options are amazing. They switch up the foods every day and always have a number of special events where guest chefs and local farms come to give out food. A lot of the food in the dining halls come from local New Hampshire and Vermont vendors and farmers. The school provides many organic options and is super vegan/vegetarian friendly.

You can find a little bit of everything when it comes to food at Dartmouth. From vegan brownies to medium rare steaks, Dartmouth has something for everyone. Options for jewish students and other really strict diets may be hard to find sometimes, but there are many dining establishments in downtown Hanover that cater to every taste. The food isn't too expensive, and it's really good quality, also.

Foco, the biggest food location, is all-you-care-to-eat, but the quality is mediocre. Other smaller dining options are better and a la carte.

It's college. The food is decent in terms of taste (Except for special events where guest chefs come and try to impress us all, to which you should definitely attend!) but the best feature of the dining is its variety. If you really hate something, you can be sure it'll be gone the next day, which is a consolation. The meal plan has been the target of many complaints, but they're overhauling it for next year, so I'll skip over it.

Pretty awesome food, only thing that sucks is dining closes around 1 am and it's a small town, so nothing is open late.

EPIC, animal house

Extremely prevalent. The crux of social life here.

The Greek life is huge over here. A great majority of Dartmouth students join the Greek life, and pretty much Dartmouth has the stereotypical frat life image. Students can join starting sophomore year.

Greek Life is a stable in the social scene at Dartmouth. However, there are alternatives. Don't feel pressured to go greek if you don't want to. Although greek organization do a lot of campus, you don't have to go greek to be involved on campus. People usually rush their sophomore years, since freshman rushing is prohibited.

You can't join a sorority or frat until you're a sophomore. This ensures that you make other friends the normal way instead of being forced to talk to 50 upperclassmen in your first couple weeks of school. Almost all parties are open. 40% of the student body goes Greek.

Greek Life at Dartmouth has been highlighted by the media as of late for hazing and other negative reasons, but Dartmouth's greek life is something that's very hard to explain. Needless to say, it's very active with over 30 fraternities and sororities. Those organizations are very welcoming to new members and often highlight the most positive memories for those involved. If greek life isn't for you, it will not damage your Dartmouth experience at all.

I don't spend much time in the frats at all, since I don't drink, but I still always go for the dance parties. Never go by yourself; you're better off bringing a friend or four that you know you'll have a good time with.

Dartmouth is often seen as the embodiment of greek life, the stereotypical greek life college, and has been for many years. Some love it, some hate it. The truth lies somewhere in the middle.

greek life is a prominent part of life at dartmouth. houses are very open and accepting and, generally, anyone can come to any event. much of the social life here at dartmouth revolves around events hosted by fraternities and sororities. this includes a cappella performances, formal dinner/dances, dance parties, improv group performances, wine-and-cheese tastings, and good old pong (if you're 21+!).