Spots on Campus:
- Foco = Class of ’53 Commons dining hall (term is short for “food court”)
- Robo = Robinson Hall (front lawn is where most students first arrive for DOC Freshman Trips)
- The Hop = The Hopkins Center / Courtyard Cafe dining hall
- Blobby = Baker Library Lobby
- FFB, 2FB, 3FB, 4FB = First floor Berry, second floor Berry, etc. (different floors of Berry Library; most common study spaces on campus)
- KAF = King Arthur Flour coffee shop
- BEMA = Big Empty Meeting Area
Miscellaneous Phrases:
- @now = right now (used when messaging others to make plans)
- shmob = used in the early weeks of fall term to describe large groups of first year students that travel together from place to place (term comes from “freshman mob”)
- facetimey = describing a person who is very social, or a location where one is likely to run into others
- Blitz = email (Blitz was the old email service at Dartmouth prior to transitioning to Outlook)
- Flitz = flirty blitz (method by which a Dartmouth student asks another on a date over email)