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  • RLF Reflection: Leading From Behind

    March 3, 2022

    On March 3, Mia Leko gave a presentation on how to be a leader when you are not a leader within the room. According to Mia, we learned the characteristics of good and bad leaders and everything in between. However, we neglected to reflect on how to demonstrate leadership when we are not in the position of leadership. She believes that as seniors at Dartmouth, we are at the top of the hierarchy learning to lead respective groups on campus, but next year we will enter the workforce. We will be junior analysts at the bottom of the hierarchy.

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  • Standing with Ukraine

    March 1, 2022
    Standing With Ukraine

    We hope that the global condemnation of this unprovoked assault and its devastating effects reflects rising support for basic human rights, respect for international law, and the principles of freedom and understanding valued by academic institutions such as Dartmouth.

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  • Neha Agarwal '24 RGLP Reflection: The Beauty of Literacy

    February 28, 2022
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    Our home city of Delhi is like a weed––bred without tenderness, blooming with no vitality, yet somehow surviving. The "rape capital of India" the news calls it. Its air is thick with dust, coating the city with a sense of hopeless foulness. My parents did not want me to breathe it in. Instead, I grew up in a sleepy rural town in the United States––the egalitarian meritocratic melting pot of the world, or so I was told. Until I was about ten, my grandmother Dadi slept in my room with me, its rosy pink wallpaper and sparkly threadbare curtains making it feel a little less small.

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  • Meghan Powers '23 RGLP Reflection: The Importance of Adaptability

    February 28, 2022
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    Being adaptable is one of the most useful qualities a person can have. In a cross-cultural context, adaptability is not only useful, but also capable of leading to deeper understandings between and within groups of people. To really be adaptable doesn't just require skill, but also willingness; therefore, to show adaptability is a sign of respect. When you're in a new setting, or meeting somebody with a different cultural background, it is a gesture of good faith to try and learn from your surroundings — more often than not, they have something to teach you.

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