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The Bigger Picture: Goodbyes aren’t the end

By Linda Huang | May 16

I’ve appreciated the opportunity to write about my amateur thoughts and comments on movies in the past year through this column. While stressful at times — thinking about having to watch a new movie to write about or anxiously trying to pick an old movie to revisit — this process has been deeply fulfilling to me. Through writing and revisiting certain scenes, key ideas and motifs from media that have shaped a part of my identity or changed a certain way I think about things, I have learned so much about myself, what I value and the significance that films hold in my life as a pastime.

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Road to the World Cup: Seniors and the World Cup

By Antonia Toro | May 13

Only 25% of college students graduate during a World Cup year. Thus, the Class of 2026 is statistically rare, but what makes these four graduating seniors unique isn’t timing. It’s the question they all hold: How do you celebrate the world’s most unifying sporting event when the world feels anything but unified?

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Road to the World Cup: Safety concerns mount ahead of World Cup

By Antonia Toro | April 28

With less than 50 days until the World Cup begins, the tournament’s two most prominent host nations have each faced a shooting incident in the span of a week. This timing is difficult to ignore.

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A Jumbo’s Journey Abroad: Slipping through my fingers (year three)

By Ben Rachel | April 27

Well, here we are once again. My final publication of the school year. Wow.

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The Bigger Picture: How ‘The Drama’ missed its bigger picture

By Linda Huang | April 24

The new A24 film “The Drama” (2026), directed by Kristoffer Borgli and starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson, looks good on paper: It has a likable cast, great humor, engagement with social issues and a theme that extends beyond the generic plots romantic comedies often embody. All in all, “The Drama” seems to check many of the boxes that would typically appeal to viewers. Yet after watching it, I was left completely unfulfilled.

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The Full Court Press: Making the World Cup great again

By Noah Goldstein | April 24

In less than 50 days, the world’s biggest sporting event will come to American soil. It will arrive with a fair share of complications. The host nation — or rather, one of three — has instigated a vastly unpopular conflict with one of the participants. Haiti qualified for the first time in 50 years, and their fans can’t get into the country to watch. Hotel prices in host cities have dropped by a third. Somewhere within all this, Gianni Infantino is smiling — or trying to stop fecal matter from falling down his leg, or maybe something in between.

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Another Bites The Dust: Finding love in K-pop is cancel-worthy

By Jachin Lam | April 24

When talking about fan-celebrity culture, K-pop fans, particularly the “ARMY” (BTS’s fanbase), do not have the best reputation online. Many of them would go to great lengths online for their favorite group or idols. However, it is also a norm within that culture for K-pop idols to appear ‘single’ for their fans. So when they get caught being in a relationship, scandal ensues. As a long-time participant in these fanbases, I wanted to use EXO’s Chen’s cancellation to highlight this phenomenon and what it says about parasocial relationships, because obsessive fan behavior is not exclusive to K-pop, especially when we live in a loneliness epidemic where people are desperate to seek out any form of attachment, even with someone on a screen.  

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An Everyday Art Tour: Living history

By Sophie Herron | April 23

Tufts alumnus Henry Cooke (A’79, AG’84), founder of Historical Costume Services, discovered his passion for history while trying to bolster his college application. Cooke worked throughout high school to pay for college, which didn’t leave him much time for extracurriculars. Because of his interest in history, his school counselor suggested he join a newly-formed minuteman reenactment group. 

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Moments ‘til Madness: The off-season is here

By Owen Short | April 22

It has now been three weeks since the Michigan Wolverines became the 2026 National Champions in college basketball, but you could argue the sport is even more hectic now than it was during the tournament. With the season over, free agency has begun for both players and coaches.

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A Jumbo’s Journey Abroad: A post, a picture, a memory

By Ben Rachel | April 22

I have been on a lot of airplanes over these past few months. As someone who has a goal of traveling to as many new places as possible, flying has almost become a weekly routine. This is all very ironic considering that I despise airports and airplanes in general. Let’s just say my time studying abroad has only affirmed my dislike. F--- you, Ryanair.

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Sharper Advice: One final debrief before you black out (academically or otherwise)

By Harper Stone and Sophie Penenberg | April 22

The sun is out, and Prez Lawn is the hottest spot on campus for athletes who think that shower shoes are an appropriate everyday choice and whose newest spring accessory is a 128-ounce plastic water jug. However, with that comes finals that quietly creep over the horizon, signalling that the semester is coming to a close. It’s bittersweet, as our time with you is also coming to an end, and we’ve truly enjoyed every minute hearing about your naughty little lives. For our final week, we’d like to offer you a rapid-fire advice session on all the questions and confessions we’ve accumulated over the course of the semester that have not yet seen the light of day. 

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Bottom of the Ninth: Who has the most to lose?

By Dylan Tanouye | April 21

Welcome back to Bottom of the Ninth! We’re now almost a month into the 2026 MLB season, and we’re starting to get a clearer picture of which teams are contenders and which are pretenders. While 25 teams still have playoff odds above 10%, some have more to play for than others. Keeping with the theme of this column, a large reason for this disparity is the looming potential of a 2027 lockout. With some teams reaching the end of their contention windows, this season may be their last chance to bring home a World Series ring with their current core of players. This week, I’ll discuss the teams facing the most pressure to deliver this season before their windows close.

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Boston Bookcrawl: Tisch Library

By Emily Sullivan | April 21

Welcome to the final installment of Boston Bookcrawl! I have loved recording my bookstore expeditions and thoughts on literary spaces in the Boston area over the past year. I hope you have been able to visit some of these stops or found others I didn’t write about for your own personal bookcrawl. There is truly an amazing number of indie bookstores in this area for you to explore and support.

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MLS Between the Lines: Messi league soccer

By Ben Brecher | April 17

This is now my third column piece and it feels impossible to talk about Major League Soccer any further without mentioning the greatest player to ever play the game: Lionel Messi.

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Worth Going Broke?: Mimosa-ified Mexican food

By Eloise Bernstein | April 17

My friend Maddie tends to spend a lot of time with my roommate Lucine and me — either wedged into a chair in Tisch Library where we take turns locking in while the others spiral into meaningless conversations, or sprawled on our floor scrolling while Lucine and I stay half-buried in our beds pretending we’re about to start our work. She’s always welcome to let herself in.

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Through Indigenous Eyes: Slowly but surely

By Sorsha Khitikian | April 16

This semester, I have tackled relevant, breaking news stories as they have occurred. From the Bad Bunny Superbowl Halftime Show to the horrific acts of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the immediate issues of the day have been my major focus. While I believe this coverage is vital, I also recognize that the vast majority of Indigenous issues lie beneath the surface because they have remained issues for years, decades, even centuries. Progress on these issues happens in spurts and often is covered through a non-Indigenous lens. As this is my last column for this semester, I want to bring attention to one of those issues: NAGPRA, or the Native American Graves and Repatriation Act.

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Get Souped Up: Soup forever

By Arghya Thallapragada and Emily O'Hearn | April 16

Our last soup column is finally here. Since this is a special occasion, we decided to change up our soup selection process: Instead of choosing the soup of the week ourselves, we passed the decision onto you, the people! Arghya put out a poll on the Daily’s Instagram story (which we’re sure is flawlessly democratic) along with our fire graphic (literally). When asked to choose between French onion soup, carrot ginger soup, corn chowder or another soup of their choosing, our readership chose French onion.

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The Death of Education: The death of vocational education

By Evan Wang | April 16

I’m sure for a wide variety of students my age, our high school experience was dominated by a never-ending focus on preparing for college applications. The endless SAT tests, AP credits and college counseling all tell us there is only one real path forward after high school: college or university. But there has always been other choices. One of these choices, which has increasingly disappeared from the public eye, is vocational education.

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Beyond the Sidelines: You should go to a Tufts lacrosse game

By Anjali Mishra | April 14

Tufts men’s lacrosse is the best, and it’s not even close. In the national championship last year against Dickinson College, Tufts won 25–8 — a display of clear, untouchable dominance.

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Serve & Survey: The cost of forgetting

By Jaylin Guzman | April 10

Welcome back to another week of “Serve & Survey.” This week’s poll came from a conversation that started off casually but quickly turned existential, as most good conversations tend to do. While talking with a friend about memory loss and what it really means to ‘lose yourself’ (inspired by a late-night episode of Full House in which someone loses their memories, altering the way they interact with their loved ones), we kept circling the same question: How much of who we are is tied to what we remember? And, maybe more importantly, can you even separate the two? After all, certain memories play out the way they do because of how your personality pushes you to respond in the first place.

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