It is certainly no secret that there are a wealth of options for students to eat pizza around campus. Whether a student is navigating Tufts dining halls, sauntering around Davis Square or strolling down Boston Avenue, pizza is an omnipresent force. A rich pizza culture has evolved around the school, ...
It’s that time of the year again. No, I’m not talking about fall — it’s apparently been fall for weeks. I’m talking about that time in the year when all your friends are posting stories about fun adventures in other, warmer parts of the country. You need to counter with the quintessential ...
When the MBTA Green Line extends through Somerville to Medford in 2021, six new stations will bring over 57,000 Medford residents closer to Boston. For now, the $2.3 billion Green Line Extension project has meant road closures and detours for local business hubs.A weekday visit to Somerville’s Ball ...
As Celine Chan was going into her junior year of high school, she knew that she was going to have to cook for herself soon in college. She also knew the first dish she would ask her mom to teach her: braised pork belly. Or, as her dad called it when she was younger, little meat. She never knew it was ...
Upon arriving at Tufts, Beatriz Fariñas Martín-Peña, Thomas Crépin and Lucas Barravecchia Prudente were told, "You are special students here." These three students, part of this year's small pool of 15 total exchange students, comprise the entirety of Tufts' one-year exchange program. It ...
When people think about different types of investments, stocks are often first in their mind, given their high upside and high risk. Although they lack the glamour of stocks, bonds can help investors achieve steady income and reduce the overall risk of their portfolio. This week, we will discuss how ...
Hundreds of Tufts students turned out last Friday for the Tufts Climate Strike, rallying at the Mayer Campus Center and venturing to City Hall to join the greater Boston movement of over 7,000 protesters. The strike was organized by Tufts Climate Action (TCA) and the Sunrise Movement with the support ...
Gray wolves — canis lupus — used to dominate the entire continental U.S., with a population upwards of two million wolves. However, by the 1930s, gray wolves were effectively extinct from the lower 48 states as a result of human activity. While indigenous people revered and respected wolves, European ...
This summer, the Tufts Film and Media Studies program welcomed new lecturer Catherine Martin to its faculty. Beyond her work at Tufts and as a Ph.D. candidate at Boston University, Martin currently works with the Radio Preservation Task Force, a project of the Library of Congress, to preserve and identify ...
The realization has probably struck by now. With classes ramping up, problem sets, papers and midterms around the corner, it is becoming clear that not having a meal plan is going to be a problem. Who could blame the idealized version of yourself who picked this course of action over the summer? Going ...
The poster is nestled in the bottom right corner of a sleek glass window in Davis Square. Two silhouettes dance together as the sun sets behind them. “I miss Johnny D’s,” says one of the figures, answered only with a nostalgic “Yeah.”Johnny D’s Uptown Restaurant and Music Clubclosed in 2016, ...
Every student, at some point in their undergraduate experience, is taught George Santayana’s assertion that “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” The phrase has produced various paraphrases, switching out “condemned” for “doomed” or “destined” but always ...
Last week, we established the basic relationship between risk and return as well as how diversification can reduce risks. The next step in understanding investments is to understand how stocks work, how they can deliver returns and why they are risky.One of the most widely known security types are stocks, ...
Alumna and book author Marin Marka (LA'15) has had many years of experience with young musicians-to-be, having taught piano lessons since she was a sophomore in high school. Although Marka said she had witnessed some students struggling with the music learning process, she noticed that her students ...
For students recovering from substance abuse, the road to sobriety can be a long and lonely one. A new set of resources for Tufts students in recovery aims to change that.The Haven at College, a private organization, is partnering with Tufts to operate an outpatient substance abuse treatment center ...
Many Tufts students first learned of eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) on Aug. 16; the rare mosquito-transmitted virus has affected nine Massachusetts residents since its initial outbreak in August. In a mass email sent days before the beginning of first-year pre-orientation, the Tufts Department of ...
Hey. Do you often spend the night awake, worrying about the impending warming of planet Earth and subsequent death of all Earth’s creatures?If so, welcome to Antidotes to Climate Apathy, because this column is for you.As I’m sure many of you have heard, it’s not looking too great on the average ...
Though there are many different academic requirements that must be satisfied in order to obtain a Tufts degree, one of the most unexpected obstacles to graduation for undergraduates can be the residency requirement. Regardless of fulfilled distribution requirements or completion of a major concentration, ...
Hello students and welcome back to Somerville! For all those returning to the column, it’s good to have you back. This semester promises to be a good one.But before we really get into the jibber-jabber, how was your move-in? If you are new to Tufts, then you probably did the whole song and dance where ...
Cooking and eating food can often evoke memories. For senior Nimish Adhikari, lightly frying paneer and sautéing onions, bell peppers and tomatoes remind him of his younger brother. Each dish prepared for us was one of his family member’s favorites, he and his mom sharing their love for daikon and ...
