Before we post on our new class of minions, I’d like to offer an opinion. As a senior, I guess I’m becoming a little sappy and perhaps a touch introspective. For two years now I have been a part of this house. What that really means is each year being a part of a new house; each class that graduates takes something, and each class that rushes gives something. After rush is perhaps the most obvious wave of the new tide; the new sisters bring new enthusiasm, new connections, new love. As each wave is different, so too is each term; no two terms are ever the same. With some sisters off, some sisters newly arrived, and some sisters soon to leave, it sometimes seems like you are being thrown by the force of the wave crashing and then tossed by the whitewater breaking. Sometimes your other activities will take dominance and it’ll feel like the rip tide is pulling you away from KDE.
But as changing and undefinable as waves are, they are still constant. You can trust the air to drag the water into shores, you can trust the tide to always return, and you can trust this house. It took me awhile to trust this house; I haven’t always been the most active or the most dedicated, but regardless I, with all my massive amount of trust issues, trust this place, these people, and this family. My junior fall I was off in New York and I took the coach up to Dartmouth one random weekend. Of course, it was cheaper to take a bus from New York to Boston and then the Dartmouth Coach from Boston to Hanover. Well, wouldn’t you know that my first bus was delayed and I therefore missed the last Dartmouth Coach out of Boston? I didn’t make it into Hanover until 2am by means of a really random Greyhound. Anyway, the friends I had planned on staying with were already asleep, my ID didn’t work, and I thought, “Shit.” I guess I’m sleeping outside tonight. But then I remembered KDE! I didn’t know anyone very well who was living in the house, but I got the door code, found a futon, and fell asleep within a half an hour of getting to campus. To this day, I think about what it would’ve been like had I not had a house to go to or sisters to help me out.
Maybe when we all graduate, they will no longer dance the wobble at meetings, maybe they won’t win flag football every year (LEGACY!), maybe they won’t wear tackies anymore, but I trust this house to support itself and its sisters. I’m so excited to welcome the new wave of sisters into the house and to tell you: don’t let this house put you in a box, don’t let it make you feel like you must be a certain way, but rather, know that this house needs and appreciates how different and special you are. Don’t let the house change you, but change the house. In the end, the tide remains.
By: Chloé Moon, Alumni Chair, Class of 2013
But as changing and undefinable as waves are, they are still constant. You can trust the air to drag the water into shores, you can trust the tide to always return, and you can trust this house. It took me awhile to trust this house; I haven’t always been the most active or the most dedicated, but regardless I, with all my massive amount of trust issues, trust this place, these people, and this family. My junior fall I was off in New York and I took the coach up to Dartmouth one random weekend. Of course, it was cheaper to take a bus from New York to Boston and then the Dartmouth Coach from Boston to Hanover. Well, wouldn’t you know that my first bus was delayed and I therefore missed the last Dartmouth Coach out of Boston? I didn’t make it into Hanover until 2am by means of a really random Greyhound. Anyway, the friends I had planned on staying with were already asleep, my ID didn’t work, and I thought, “Shit.” I guess I’m sleeping outside tonight. But then I remembered KDE! I didn’t know anyone very well who was living in the house, but I got the door code, found a futon, and fell asleep within a half an hour of getting to campus. To this day, I think about what it would’ve been like had I not had a house to go to or sisters to help me out.
Maybe when we all graduate, they will no longer dance the wobble at meetings, maybe they won’t win flag football every year (LEGACY!), maybe they won’t wear tackies anymore, but I trust this house to support itself and its sisters. I’m so excited to welcome the new wave of sisters into the house and to tell you: don’t let this house put you in a box, don’t let it make you feel like you must be a certain way, but rather, know that this house needs and appreciates how different and special you are. Don’t let the house change you, but change the house. In the end, the tide remains.
By: Chloé Moon, Alumni Chair, Class of 2013
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