Natasha (N): One thing I think is really important in any discussion of identity is exposing ourselves to a variety of “sources” that connect us to various pieces of our identity. For me, this was always primarily through books. I first defined my ideas of womanhood through Jane Austen, followed ...
The average American produces 4.3 pounds of waste per day. Thirty-four percent of our total waste is recycled, up from 16 percent in 1990.Germans blow us out of the water, recycling or composting over 60 percent of their municipal waste, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and ...
One of the most intriguing storylines of this World Series has been the return of the Cubs’ former catcher and now left fielder Kyle Schwarber. Schwarber tore his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and lateral collateral ligament (LCL) on April 7 in the Cubs' third game of the season, when he collided ...
“Forget the pirate eyepatch, mime makeup and superhero cape. I’ll be something out of the ordinary this Halloween,” I told myself in the days leading up to Halloweekend. I was undertaking an arduous task — figuring out how to be something novel and unprecedented was definitely going to be hard.I ...
He turns off the radio."So... you're gay." It's not exactly a statement, not exactly a question.My father and I are driving to meet the rest of my family for Thanksgiving dinner.What surprises me most isn't my father proclaiming my sexuality when I had not told him, but rather ...
Worry and consternation have surely been flying around the NFL's New York City office throughout the last month over a problem once considered unthinkable: NFL television ratings are down. Yes, you read that right. After decades of dominating Sunday's (and Monday’s and Thursday’s and, ...
Happy (post-) Halloween! Here's something that is probably scarier than checking your Venmo history from this weekend — your iTunes library from 2008! As a tween, you probably dabbled a little -- or a lot -- in the emo-pop-punk scene or whatever name you gave to the music of Fall Out Boy, The All-American Rejects, Panic! At The Disco and many more. It’s just one part of our adolescence that the middle schoolers in 2016 don't have. Perhaps today’s youth aren’t any less embarrassing than we were, but they do have VSCO filters, which kind of take the edge off. Technically speaking, real 90s kids experienced their formative years in the mid-2000s, and what a time it was. Yes, I’m talking about sleepovers spent playing Rock Band (2007) and texting on LG flip phones with monthly SMS limits. What better way to get over your ex than by blasting “The Great Escape” (2006) by Boys Like Girls? So I have a few questions: Why did this music end? Where are they now? And will there ever be a resurgence of our angsty teenage anthems?
I recently found out that a member of my family is getting married, which got me thinking: isn’t having a fantasy football team like marriage? Let me explain. You devote all of your time to your team, sometimes you have a few bad weeks and get angry at your team, but then you have a great week and ...
I never thought there’d come a day where I’d be more afraid of the results of the upcoming presidential election than psychotic clowns taking over various cities. Yet, here we are. I was your typical scaredy-cat growing up. Turn the lights off in a room or surprise me with a demon mask and I’d ...
When I was a freshman, I was sure that college would be a time where I could totally reinvent myself. I played violin growing up, but decided to leave the orchestra geek in me behind and try something new when I came to Tufts. After all, I had come to Jumbo Days and seen firsthand just how many clubs ...
Parents' Weekend is the opportune time to force your family to take you to a restaurant that’s a little too far away and a little too out of your price range. With this in mind, I dragged my mother to Boston’s South End to go to The Beehive. The Beehive has been widely acclaimed as one of Boston’s ...
https://twitter.com/ProjectRunway/status/789271912300081152Like the first episode of this season of "Project Runway"(2004–present), this week’s show starts off with a party that — surprise! — isn’t actually a party but an excuse to introduce the week’s challenge. The designers ...
We’ve tackled the costs of college and the merits of a vocational education, but we haven’t yet tackled the big question — is college even worth it in the first place? To find out, let's take a step outside The Echo Chamber. For many, college has always been the obvious choice — almost 70 percent of ...
Welcome to The Coin Toss, where I make some bold, unlikely predictions every week about some of your favorite professional sports. First, a quick recap of last week.I had the Browns topping their season high in total offense. They didn't perform horribly against the Bengals, but their 352 yards ...
On Thursday night, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton put their differences aside in order to attend the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, an annual fundraiser for Catholic charities.As is tradition at the dinner, the two presidential candidates (that matter) each roasted the other.Secretary ...
You may have noticed a few changes around campus these past few days as the remaining bunch of Parents and Family Weekend visitors said their last goodbyes. Firstly, the median age on campus is now back to 20-something. Secondly, and more seriously, first-year students (whom this annual event primarily ...
On Saturday, something of an annual tradition took place on a field in Chicago: Clayton Kershaw got rocked in a playoff game. The Los Angeles Dodgers’ ace pitcher gave up four earned runs over five innings pitched in Game Six of the team’s 5-0 elimination loss to the World Series-bound Chicago ...
Faryal (F): This year, I’m studying abroad in London. One of the biggest surprises I had when I got here was how many South Asian faces I saw. That may sound a little strange, but I’m from a pretty homogenous area. Kansas is pretty white and all the South Asians kind of just know each other. Seeing ...
I hope, if your parents visited this weekend, that they believed all of the lies you told them. “Yeah, mom, I totally spend so much time studying. I never go out on Wednesday nights. My room is definitely this clean all the time.” If you’ve seen “Anna Karenina” (2012), one of the better Keira ...
“The thing you need to know is, it's all about sex... They say men think about sex every 28 seconds. Of course, that's straight men. With gay men, it's every nine.” So begins "Queer as Folk," the early-2000s TV show thought to be the apex of queer TV. The show opens in an ...
