Unfortunately, my dear readers, you won’t be hearing from your favorite literary columnist for a couple of weeks. We’re less than five days from spring break, something that -- for me at least -- doesn’t seem real. This semester has been crazy and disjointed, so it’ll be nice to relax and spend ...
Dear Reader, I have come to you before about confessions regarding CVS addictions, crazy grandmothers and ill-functioning snow boots. However, today I am here to say that my name is Pooja Sivaraman and I am a Yik Yak addict. It began only a few weeks ago with Rebecca telling me about how it is the ...
Dear SWUG,I had a little too much fun at Call on Me. I drank too much, got a little too down and dirty on the dance floor and got to know some brothers a little too well. How do I show my face on campus again?Bawl on MeDear Bawl on Me,Oh boy. I remember my first Call on Me.News flash, you’re not the ...
The All-Star break has come and gone, and now teams have turned their focus to jostling for playoff position with approximately twenty games left in the regular season. As much as they would probably deny this, there a select few players who have their eyes on the most prestigious individual regular ...
Craig Kimbrel, Aroldis Chapman, and Greg Holland are clearly the position’s elite, but none of them will wind up on my teams this spring simply because of how early people tend to draft premium closers.The aforementioned three will bring you excellent ratios and at least 90 strikeouts, but I would ...
Braving the bus, the long blocks and the masses of people, I stood in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's monumental neoclassical facade after a trying four and a half hour bus ride. This Saturday, I was determined to view the Met’s Asian Art Centennial in its entirety. The museum’s comprehensive ...
Of all the Boston Red Sox's shiny new additions, none are more intriguing than Cuban imports Rusney Castillo and Yoan Moncada.What makes the duo so intriguing is the gobs of money Boston spent to acquire them despite their lack of major league experience. The Red Sox committed over $135 million ...
The Russian region of Chechnya has a volatile history, and while President Ramzan Kadyrov has brought stability to the region, he has failed to promote human rights. In the past few years, attention has turned to the restrictions placed on women requiring them to wear Muslim dress in public. Such controls ...
The Players' Tribune, a first-of-its-kind media platform whose writers are exclusively current and former professional athletes, aspires to bring "fans closer to the games they love than ever before." They're lying.Gone are the days of journalistic meddling, of careerism, when writers ...
“Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return” (King James Version, Gen. 3.19). This phrase, taken from the book of Genesis, was recited in a multiplicity of languages to me and millions of Christians worldwide two weeks ago, on the occasion of Ash Wednesday. As I heard these words and received ...
Ever since my middle school days, when I was compelled to watch “Leprechaun in the Hood” by what I now imagine must have been near-Clockwork Orange-tactics, I have had a slightly biased vendetta against all of cinema.Although I seemed entrenched in my anti-cinematic ways to friends and family, this ...
A few Fridays ago, several friends and I decided to stop by Gare Montparnasse,a train station that happens to have a public piano available to anyone who wants to play. With one pianist and several singers in our group, we figured we’d mess around for a little while before heading off somewhere else ...
Apparently, ramen burgers are a thing now. I won’t be talking about them. Let’s get back to the no-nonsense roots of bun, burger and toppings.Boston Burger Company (colloquially and hereafter referred to as BBC) provides a startling array of burgers. The Davis Square mainstay has so many, in fact, ...
The non-fiction essay is an oft-forgotten genre, one that doesn’t have its own section in a bookstore or a list of bestsellers. It doesn't fall directly in line with the short story or the biography, instead treading a grey area between fictional writing and personal memoirs. It isn’t a genre ...
Dear mental sanity,Wintertime. Being constantly surrounded by myriads of people. Eating “curried tofu surprise” for the third day in a row at the dining hall. During this time of year, it can understandably be difficult to escape from the bubble that a college campus can create. The state of isolation, ...
“If LeBron can go home, why can’t I?” asked an aging star on a Brooklyn Nets roster that never seemed to click despite high expectations at the beginning of the 2013-2014 season. Kevin Garnett is returning to the Minnesota Timberwolves, a franchise he so deeply loves and never wanted to leave ...
As you may remember from last semester, one week I was feeling uncharacteristically magnanimous and used this column to explain one of my trademark secrets about how to decode someone’s personality from their coffee order (patent pending). While this is probably one of the most important life skills ...
Rebecca:I have a bone to pick with Tufts 2019. For the most part, any Tufts student can get added to a Facebook group for a Tufts class year. My request to join Tufts 2019, however, has been left pending for an entire week. The group has 600 members and multiple administrators; all of them have ignored ...
Levers switch, gears churn and bolts slide. The mechanical clicks of Arthur Ganson’s unique creations fill the exhibition space. Differing from the eerie stillness of a typical museum setting, the MIT Museum is infused with an atmosphere of kinetic activity. I found myself entranced by the feats of ...
Last week, I wrote a column about the politics of population control. Ironically, or perhaps fittingly, this week I read the most heartbreaking article about forced sterilizations that took place in North Carolina between 1929 and 1974. During that time, 7,600 North Carolinians were sterilized. Eighty-five ...
