When I started writing this column on Sunday afternoon, it was going to be overwhelmingly negative, as only a Patriots post-mortem authored by a native New Englander can be. It was supposed to be about the sudden death of a football dynasty that extends back to when most Tufts students were in elementary ...
So in the past couple of weeks we have received -- from quite a few people -- the question of whether New York Style Delhi is a sex column. Our answer to that is, not exactly. I, Pooja, an apparent sex columnist, much prefer the title of “Advice Aunty." However, I must note that sexual advice ...
Orange is not only the new black, but, more importantly, it was Frank Sinatra’s favorite color. I remember an intense feeling of melancholy overcoming my little five-year-old body when I found out he had died. I spent my youth watching “High Society" (1956) on sick days home from school and ...
Last Saturday, I embarked on a journey to Kendall Square Cinema. After maneuvering the rain, underground traffic and a hike in Uber fares, I found myself rather comfortable with my jacket slung over the back of my reclining chair and a greasy brown bag of popcorn teetering on my lap. As my eyes were ...
Two weeks ago, I wrote about the exigency for the institutionalization of a support system in the NFL. Although we are in the midst of a swift denouement -- public opinion can be maddeningly fickle sometimes -- to the Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson scandals, these types of issues persist.There are current ...
An idea that has fascinated me for a long time, and which is a central focus of my time here in Ghana, is how food connects us to culture. Food is obviously a necessity for life, but in all cultures it has taken on additional social meaning. Food is comfort, community, sympathy, celebration, tradition. ...
I’m getting old.I should have seen it coming, really. All the warning signs were there. I’ve never really liked dubstep. That new Ello thing started to replace Facebook, and I don’t care. Heck, the other day somebody was wrong on the Internet, and I didn’t correct them. Not even their grammar. ...
Dear T riders,Hey you. I get it. It was a long day at work, and you want to get home to that great home-cooked meal, or maybe even a “Beef Chow Fun” Lean Cuisine (that actually exists apparently). But let’s be reasonable and recognize that the train only moves so fast, and nothing you do will ...
It was Stephen King who said there are three kinds of scare tactics: the "gross out," horror and terror. A gross out is when a pile of heads rolls down a flight of stairs to your feet, splashing blood on the walls as they fall; horror occurs when something supernatural or disturbingly deformed appears suddenly and refuses to leave your dreams; and you experience terror when you’re aware of a breath on your neck, feel the presence of a body behind you, but you turn around to find there was never anything there to begin with.
It’s simple to see why Hodgdon On-the-Run exists, and I’ve been thankful for its existence more than once. Can’t sit down for a meal between classes? Here’s an MGH. Lazy and want to leech off 9:45 p.m. leftovers? There’s probably an old brownie with your name on it. Want to peeve your Hodgdon ...
It’s been over a month since Josh Gordon acknowledged he would be suspended for the 2014 NFL season due to a violation of the league’s substance abuse policy. Gordon tested positive for marijuana. It’s been over two weeks since that one year suspension was reduced to 12 games. However, the story ...
So, I might be a couple of weeks late with this column, but if you’re keeping up with current events by reading S&S, you probably need to reevaluate your life anyway. At this point, everyone and their mothers have heard of the Tufts plague, and by now, chances are you’ve experienced it.What ...
Dear SWUG, My car blew up on Homecoming in the Zeta parking lot. What should I do with my totaled car? -- I Didn’t Start the FireDear I Didn’t Start the Fire, Phew, its getting hot in here. My Nana always says, if you play with fire, you’re going to get burned, and this is exactly what she was ...
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba went public earlier this month, raising nearly $22 billion in the largest initial public offering (IPO) ever. Founded by Chinese national Jack Ma in 1999, the company takes its name from the classic tale of “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,” which tells of a poor ...
While the NFL has undergone serious, and warranted, scrutiny over incidents revolving around big name players Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson, the NBA has seemingly flown under the radar this offseason. When the same domestic violence issues do unfortunately spill onto the court, NBA franchises have looked ...
Although I’ve been warned about the conservative, neoliberal and Western-centric curriculum in the International Relations department, as a prospective IR major, I was hoping these claims were exaggerations. Now that I’m taking Intro to IR, I understand why some of my friends and the cool folks ...
Last Sunday, my roommate and our two pals decided to rekindle our collective inner child and venture to the Museum of Science. All hailing from the tri-state area, we were familiar with the Liberty Science Center, an interactive museum that our elementary schools took us to long ago. Seeking a similar ...
Part of the reason that I am so excited about writing an advice column with the Pooj is the fact that no one ever really asks me for advice. Until three days ago, I had never been asked for directions on campus. It was not for lack of trying -- I even started to smile at people as I walk past them (that ...
Sometimes words are just not enough to properly convey a story. But with the addition of a melody and a Casio drumbeat, you get what I like to call the "story song." Let’s face it: simply telling a story about taking out a personal ad with the intention of cheating on your wife, only to ...
Fall is typically a great time to be a sports fan. There's football (professional and college) and playoff baseball (finally the games mean something), and hockey and basketball get underway. After the relative sports deadzone that is summer, it's exciting to have our teams, both real-life ...
