If you're a vegan or veg head, I'd stop reading right here and now - this one's for the carnivores out there. This week I went on the hunt to find the juiciest, most tender burger at two famous and beloved burger joints in our area: Boston Burger Company and Mr. Bartley's. Read on to see which one is the heartier of the two.
This year, the scramble to find off-campus housing started even earlier than in previous years, with many students signing leases for next year starting as early as the beginning of September. Students have noted that the level of panic among students about finding off-campus housing seems even higher than last year at this time.
This week, my housemates and I have been indulging in mini-marathons of "Say Yes to the Dress," as a direct result of a new flat-screen TV being installed in our house. It's really fun to watch. One of the main reasons for this are the dresses themselves. Analyzing different styles - mermaid, poofy, risqu?©,?empire waist, small to moderate to huge amounts of lace and sequins - never gets old.
I remembered this morning that I live in the Northeast. Put bluntly: it's too damn cold. In November. Already. Wrenching myself from bed I lumbered to my dresser in search of a sweatshirt. I found one quickly, the letters T-U-F-T-S printed squarely on its chest, and, once again, was filled with a sense of pride. Call me romantic, emotional or whatever else you want, but as I traverse campus it's exciting to spot Tufts sweaters, Tufts LGBTQ pins, Tufts hats, Tufts canteens and the occasional Tufts student. My cherished collegiate sweater almost makes me welcome the cold weather. Almost.
The club water polo team closed its season with a third-place finish at the 2013 Div. III National Collegiate Club Championship hosted at Franklin & Marshall College's Kunkel Aquatic Center this past weekend.
November is here and winter is on its way. What does that have to do with the Bible? I have no idea, but I feel like everyone can relate to the weather.
It's been one week since the Boston Red Sox were crowned World Series champions. The champagne is flat. The Duck Boats have rolled through the streets of Boston. Those scruffy beards are about to meet their makers at local barbershops (if they haven't already). Fenway Park is silent, bracing itself for a long, snowy, winter break, waiting for the sights and sounds of America's pastime to return in April. Soxtober is over.
It is 3 p.m. and I look up from my reading desk at Tisch Library. I see someone covered fully in a white sheet, perhaps attempting to look like a ghost in the middle of broad daylight. At 4:30 p.m., I am walking down the steps of Tisch and see a professor with a green hat and purple shoes - definitely going for the witch look.
I accidentally walked into Pearson 104 the other day while looking for a noontime lecture. I immediately turned around and left that Chem 51 lecture, thinking as I did, "Damn, there are a hell of a lot of premeds on this campus."
In a world where sports fanatics are royalty, I am a mere plebian. I grew up in a Connecticut suburb where diehard baseball fans were roughly split 50/50: Yankees/Red Sox. I sided with the Red Sox because their supporters were generally less annoying.
Fall is upon us. Tree leaves are turning from a lush green to a vibrant palette of yellow, orange and red. The temperature is dropping with each subsequent week. The days have already been shrinking, and legislators have set our clocks back an hour. It now gets dark at 4:33 p.m. Before the end of the semester, we'll lose 19 more minutes of that daylight. So, how did Daylight Savings Time (DST) come to be? Moreover, what is the story of time, and how have humans come to manage it?
The women's cross country team placed third out of 11 teams at the NESCAC Championship in Waterford, Conn. at the Harkness State Park meet on Saturday, improving on last year's fourth place finish at the meet.
Don't let the name fool you. The Harry Potter Alliance isn't a fan club.
The Crying Game" (1992) tells the story of Fergus, an IRA operative, whose life is thrown off course after he kidnaps and subsequently befriends a British soldier. The film was fairly radical for the time period in its portrayal of sexuality and gender, also delving into themes of racism and colonialism.
Lately, anyone who's anyone has been weighing in on the debate over the Washington Redskins' name. Wise columnists have addressed such questions as: Is the name racist? Is 'redskin' a slur? Are Native Americans offended by it? What if one carefully selected Native American leader says he is not offended by it? Then can we definitively declare that, 'It's okay, everyone, they aren't offended; we don't need to change the name?'
Tufts Mock Trial (TMT) started their 10th anniversary season strong last weekend, faring well at both the Columbia University Big Apple Invitational Tournament and the Happy Valley Invitational at Pennsylvania State University.
The Pan-African Alliance (PAA) celebrated the 44th annual Black Solidarity Day with a series of student lectures and presentations, as well as spoken-word and musical performances, on the Mayer Campus Center lower patio yesterday afternoon.
"I'm mediocre in a lot of things," Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy Daniel Dennett said. "I'm mediocre in playing the piano and doing pottery. My profession - it's the one thing I'm really not mediocre at."
In last week's column on the commercial space race, I mentioned SpaceX and its prominent founder and CEO, Elon Musk.
The recent hot-button topic in sports has come out of Washington, D.C.: The use of the name "Redskins" for the city's football team. Everyone has given their two cents on this subject, culminating in a Sunday night football halftime sermon by Bob Costas of NBC two weeks ago. I'm not here necessarily to argue in favor of or against the name, but rather provide an alternate perspective on the issue.
