As a Massachusetts native who has never lived more than 40 minutes outside of Boston, I have attended my fair share of Boston marathons. I fondly remember visiting my grandma's house in Natick, where my brother and I would load up on orange slices, plastic cups and H2O. Then we'd walk over ...
The people and ideas I’ve encountered at Tufts have made me much more aware of nuances. I’ve become more cognizant of the problems that come with generalizing and lumping together groups of people who, between themselves, possess incredibly broad ranges of experiences and backgrounds -- of lumping ...
When most people think about popular European modes of transport, a few vehicles come to mind, namely complicated railway systems, tall noisy buses and tiny electric cars that zip around the city with a hum, sometimes even driving on the sidewalks and scattering pedestrians on their way. Well, I'm ...
Psychology is about as old as my great-grandparents, experimenting with their emotions, upsetting their mothers and coming of age in the years preceding the turn of the 20th century. But whereas my great grandparents have long matured (and deceased), the field of psychology is neither mature nor deceased. One might accredit this to the insatiable drive to uncover the human mind, coupled with its inherent difficulty.
Last February, I temporarily took leave of my senses and signed up to run a half-marathon. What’s more, this flash of madness was accompanied by a stroke of vindictiveness, because I somehow persuaded two of my good friends to register to undergo this torture alongside me. The next two months were ...
Yesterday, the NBA regular season ended. Sixteen teams will begin the playoffs and the other 14 will enter the NBA Draft Lottery. Here is a look at the rookie class of the 2015-2016 season.The top two players of this year’s draft are widely thought to be two big men who competed in this year’s ...
Pine. That is the scent that has been dominating my life recently. I never actually knew it was pine until Rebecca pointed it out. I always assumed it was grass, or just the smell of sun. I have a complicated relationship with pine. Maybe it has something to do with allergies, or maybe it has something ...
In my experiences attending a predominantly white university in the Western world, environmentalism is often presented as a western concept. My professors frequently cite Henry David Thoreau as one of the first environmentalists, who lived in a secluded cabin in New England and wrote about nature. They ...
Not only do we seek to order our lives, but also we seek to order our interpretation of art. Living in an age of innovation, we seek immediate gratification through technology. We, the public, are currently enraptured with the marvels of modern technology and modernization. However, while we are products ...
In a technology-based global society, sources for free speech like Facebook and Twitter are indicators of the extent of societal restrictions in oppressive regimes. When social media sites move abroad, they have a new challenge to open platforms for expression and dissent while remaining able to legally ...
Back in October, if you had told sports fans to bet on which of Boston's professional winter sports teams would be in the playoffs come April, I'm pretty sure every single one of them would have picked the Bruins.Incredibly, that is not the case. The Bruins are out, the Celtics are in and we're ...
The benefits of technological expansion don’t have to be enumerated. Computers, phones and pingpong balls not only consume the lives of most college students (save the hardcore hippies), but also make them easier or even (considering how lost I would be without Facebook) possible. The convenience and efficiency of utilizing technology in our daily lives, however, may be dwarfed by the larger implications of the development of what some (Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, a professor and director at MIT Sloan, respectively) call the second machine age.
Kawhi Leonard won't be crowned MVP this season.For the voters, offense always trumps defense. Although Leonard has been on a tear since early March, netting more than one point per possession in each of the five main play types and simultaneously uplifting his teammates, per Synergy Sports, ...
I'm afraid I don't have much to talk about this week other than midterms, which have been occupying my every waking moment since I got back from Geneva. This week, I have about a zillion things to do -- by the time you're reading this column, I will hopefully have turned in one of two massive ...
For citizens of our busy and increasingly urbanized 21st century world, the bucolic and rural imagery of Robert Frost’s poetry may sometimes seem dated and irrelevant to the issues of our “modern” era. Yet I would argue that the poetry of Frost remains timeless, just as relevant today as it was ...
Swiping into a dining hall for breakfast costs me $6.82. Eating breakfast at home costs me about 90¢, depending on how good a deal I get on my cereal and whether there’s a banana in it or not.But eating at home is way less fun. If you’ve ever paid attention to a cereal advertisement, you know ...
Aside from Paul Goldschmidt, A.J. Pollock, Mark Trumbo and maybe Jake Lamb, I dislike just about every member of the Diamondbacks' 25-man roster.However, this team has three excellent buy-low candidates sitting in Reno (its triple-A affiliate) or on a trainer’s table.By now you have probably ...
Dear hair aficionados,Beards. Neck beards. Nipples. Matching carpets and drapes? Nasty. Anyways, these hirsute locations on our bodies are sadly not the focus of this letter: We’re talking head hair. More importantly, combining some different types of quaffs that seem to be the most “trendy” within ...
I love books that are written so beautifully it's like they're straight out of a fantasy. Even mediocre story lines can be made enjoyable when the writing effortlessly flows from page to page. It is special to find books that engage readers with their characters through meticulously constructed ...
