Orientation and community-building activities help students prep for the start of classes.

Download the Class of 2028 portrait. (Photo by Katie Lenhart)

Students mountain bike during first-year trips. (Photo by Chris Johnson)

First-year students from Allen House at the A Dartmouth Welcome! ceremony at Memorial Field. (Photo by Robert Gill)

Student orientation leaders lift up a rainbow parachute on the Green before welcoming the undergraduate Class of 2028. (Photo by Robert Gill)

President Sian Leah Beilock talks with Calentin Correa ’28, Taoheng Chen ’28, and Honiely Aviles ’28 on move-in day. All three students were part of the FYSEP program and were moving from summer housing to their first-year residence hall. (Photo by Katie Lenhart)

First-Year Student Enrichment Program students do team building activities in the Bema as part of their three-week orientation. (Photo by Katie Lenhart)

Aynura Erejepbaeva ’28 builds a circuit during a STEM class for FYSEP students as Lila Gillon ’28 looks on. (Photo by Robert Gill)

The Native American Program hosted a welcome dinner for incoming students, their families, and supporters. (Photo by Robert GIll)

Romello McRaw ’28 picks up mail. (Photo by Robert Gill)

Angelica Angelica ’28 visits a booth at the Resource Fair. (Photo by Robert Gill)

Orientation in front of Dartmouth Hall. (Photo by Robert Gill)

Orientation leaders Alex Campbell ’26, Batuhan Saridede ’26, and Rosario Rosales ’25 perform in Your Class, Your Words, an orientation tradition that takes excerpts from student admissions essays and melds them into a spoken-word piece. (Photo by Katie Lenhart)

Students from East Wheelock and Allen houses get to know each other during the first meeting of the class. (Photo by Katie Lenhart)

New students participate in first-year trips at the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge. (Photo by Chris Johnson)

Orientation leaders welcome incoming students to their first meeting of the class. (Photo by Katie Lenhart)

Jacob Brosamer ’28 moves into Zimmerman Hall with help from his mother, Darlene, right. (Photo by Robert Gill)

From left, Siddhanth Lohia ’28, Israel Allen ’28, and Eydan Lavi ’28 play chess in Collis. (Photo by Robert Gill)

First-year students participate in an orientation workshop. (Photo by Robert Gill)

Wica-Ta-Wi Hoksina Brown ’28, Dezstany Garcia ’28, and Gabriela Martinez ’28 discuss a sculpture by Jeffrey Gibson during a tour of the Hood Museum of Art, part of the orientation offered by the Native American Program. (Photo by Katie Lenhart)

An aerial view of the Class of 2028. (Photo by Chris Johnson)