Since I'm funded as a research assistant I'm not required to hold any recitation sessions or grade homework assignments. I have gotten some experience teaching through volunteer opportunities at a local elementary school however. This is a great opportunity to meet some fantastic kids, get acquainted with the community, get some blackboard experience, and help steer some potential lawyers and MBAs in the direction of science and engineering. Hanover A friend of mine looking at Tuck School of Business here at Dartmouth told me that their brochure advertised Hanover as having all the social and cultural activity of New York or Boston, without the crime, pollution or parking problems. That's a lie.
Parking is terrible in Hanover.
For cultural activity on the other hand, the Hopkins Center and Hood Museum of Art, along with a couple of local theaters, offer the typical cycle of events you'd expect at a liberal arts college. Well, to me, a proud NH local, the best thing about Hanover is that it's in one of the most beautiful parts of America that I've ever seen. The upper Connecticut river valley, along with the White Mountains of northern New Hampshire and the Green Mountains of Vermont, is a lot like heaven on earth at times. However nasty the winters can be though, the summers are correspondingly beautiful, and bearable too. This is a filled contour plot of the displacement phase for a vibrating agar gel sample.