Dear Daily readers,Today is an important day for both you, our readers, and those of us who spend our nights and early mornings in the basement office producing the paper you’re now holding. Today is the day we start daily production, meaning you’ll wake up each morning secure in the knowledge that ...
Welcome back to this semester’s edition of Out of Left Field! Since my last column in December, a lot has happened in the world of baseball, from free agent signings to blockbuster trades to retirements. This column is your one-stop shop for recapping what went down these past couple of months. Free ...
Greetings again! It is my last column of the semester, and I wanted to bring things full circle. I opened by introducing this as a commentary on popular music in the context of college and beyond. This is the music I will look back on with both fond memories and embarrassment and perhaps have difficulty explaining to my kids.
I remember sending in my first column for "The Arena" last September. When the Daily accepted my proposal, I think I let it get to my head. I figured I would drop knowledge bombs and be the campus Nate Silver crossed with Jon Stewart crossed with Brad Pitt. But this election process made ...
As the saying goes, "Home is where the heart is." But for many LGBTQ people, figuring out where that is can be more than a little bit complicated. As Harry Potter said when asked how he felt about returning to Privet Drive, “Hogwarts is my home.”I’m always a fan of reading queer allegory ...
On the first day of Christmas, baseball gave to me: a Bartolo Colon home run.On the second day of Christmas, baseball gave to me: two David Ortiz stolen bases and a Bartolo Colon home run.On the third day of Christmas, baseball gave to me: three Mookie Betts home runs in one game (happened twice ...
Well friends, another semester has come and gone — a little too quickly for my liking to be honest, but what can we do? Unfortunately, this is going to be the last column I write for the Tufts Daily. I hope you’ve all had as much fun reading these as I’ve had writing them. There will be a free ...
With the ever-present threat of finals looming ominously over our heads, my roommate Ana and I decide to counteract the negativity by treating ourselves to a night out in Boston. We began to scour the internet for fine-dining in the city and eventually settled on Sportello, an Italian restaurant located ...
Finals week is upon us, but never fear. I’ve got the recipe for success to help you take final exams like a pro.First off, make sure you’re as sleep deprived as possible. Don’t listen to what your drooping eyelids and foggy mind are telling you; you should most definitely stay up until at least ...
December is here, and for students, that often means stress and late nights as opposed to holiday cheer and Christmas cookies. The anxiety of upcoming finals often prevents me from enjoying my final weeks of the semester, and it can be difficult not to feel particularly bogged down.This year, I’m ...
Happy December, everyone! As 2016 winds down, so does Barack Obama's presidency. And now that the sitting president has been a “lame duck” for about a month, President-elect Donald Trump is phasing himself into the presidency, while his sons are still wondering what lame ducks are and whether you ...
“Forget everything you think you know,” said every bad sci-fi movie trailer ever. From Skynet to Sonny to Scarlett Johansson, artificial intelligence (AI) has taken on many forms in pop culture, but almost every one of them has been wrong. Today, AI exists in almost every aspect of our lives, from ...
Welcome to The Coin Toss, where I make some bold, unlikely predictions about your favorite professional sports. First, let's recap last week's NFL games.It had to happen at some point. Last week, I noted that I had always gotten at least one prediction correct. It seems that I jinxed myself, ...
https://twitter.com/ProjectRunway/status/804516407715176448 Running around a warehouse dotted with fires in garbage cans for extra pizzaz, the designers were tasked with collecting unconventional industrial materials like metal scraps, wire and tiles in order to make avant-garde outfits for the runway ...
At the risk of trivializing our species’ anatomical complexity, I believe that each of us (bodies, brains, blood and all) communicate with the world by sending out biological “text messages.”Take the shivers, for example (a “text” we’ll all be getting in the next few weeks). Your body texts ...
Finals week is upon us. A cloud of stress and uncertainty and a foreboding air of impending doom are soon to descend over our beautiful campus. Recently, instead of catching up on my readings, I watched one of my favorite mystery films, “The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo” (2011). As I look out the ...
Faryal (F): Even though Natasha and I have lived in the United States for either our entire lives or the latter parts of our lives, we both actively try to remain connected to the culture of Pakistan. For me, culture, specifically fashion, was one of the most important ways I expressed my Pakistani ...
With the signing of the new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) -- which is good for five years -- on Nov. 30, Major League Baseball will have seen 26 straight years without a work stoppage by the time this one ends. This is truly remarkable given that MLB had four in-season labor stoppages from 1972 ...
When I went home for the summer after my freshman year, I decided to go on Tinder. There would be no chance of running into someone from school, and thus it couldn’t be awkward. After many conversations that started and ended without going anywhere, a girl and I decided we would go on a date. It ...
The framers of this country were pretty smart. Beyond leaving a treasure map on the back of the Declaration of Independence for Nicolas Cage and Justin Bartha to follow centuries later, they also set up a pretty neat system of government. In it, checks and balances from Congress and the court system ...
