Sometimes Pooja’s CVS addiction rubs off on me. I find myself possessing an array of nail polishes and face washes that she might even get jealous of. Often, when I start my day, I wash my face with Neutrogena’s grapefruit face scrub. It contains microbeads, which I thought were pretty nifty. These ...
This past weekend, I casually flew out to Indiana to witness one of the greatest basketball games ever played, or the Final Four of what most people know as March Madness. "Most people," by the way, does not include the vast majority of my friends, who stared at me blankly when I tried to ...
For much of 2014, global protests against oppressive regimes took center stage in international dialogue. With people flocking to the streets in Venezuela, Ukraine, Hong Kong and the United States, no region is immune to unrest. Many of the same movements continue in 2015, proving the fight against ...
If the 8-0 Opening Day pasting of the Philadelphia Phillies was any indication, the Boston Red Sox are back. Back to being World Series contenders, as they were in 2013, instead of being a last-place team, as they were last year and in 2012.Boston looked terrific in Monday's season opener, blasting ...
In previous columns, I’ve talked about whether feminists should make it a priority to cater to the interests of men to promote their feminist worldviews, ultimately concluding that it isn’t feminists’ jobs to make men feel comfortable.I still feel this way, and I still believe that no one should ...
It’s easy to adopt the mindset that progress for the sake of the progress, never mind progress for the sake of Super Smash Bros. (1999-present) fanatics and squeegee enthusiasts, is an inherent and unquestionable good. This perspective is convenient and intuitive; ideology, the dogma of a Christian Scientist or the ravings of a polemic philosopher gone haywire, for instance, seems like all that could conceivably lead someone to reject triumphs like neuroprosthetics, supercomputers and my latest Candy Crush (2012) high score.
Consider a scenario: "Student-athlete" is recruited by a booster, who receives kickbacks from a major program at a major university. This "student-athlete" comes from a poor family, whose livelihood hangs in the balance, entirely dependent on a future lucrative professional ...
Mimicking the architecture of a Venetian Palazzo, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum exudes an air of opulence. Masked by an unassuming modern outer structure, the original foundation lies beyond the concrete and glass barrier.The transparent concourse linking the modern architecture with the retrofitted ...
With the 2015 regular season now upon us, I want to take one final look at a number of important happenings from Spring Training. Although the scores of the games do not matter, the extreme performances, call-ups/send downs and injuries do.Fantasy baseball owners know not to worry too much about Spring ...
Dear Prospies,I feel like this school has transformed into a deli. No, it is not because some newfound lunchmeat odor has recently consumed campus in a honey ham hurry. Rather, I’ve become the chicken breast (shaved of course) behind the glass counter alongside the other students at Tufts. Campus ...
For me, watching "Shrek" (2001) is a spiritual experience. Fairy tales and fantasy aside, I can identify with a lot of themes in the movie, like not judging a book by its cover, understanding that people are like onions and so on.But there’s a particular moment that always resonates with ...
Any chronic bookworm will understand the feeling you experience when you’re out of new books to read. The craving for a new story is too much to bear for very long, so a trip to the bookstore is necessary. I go through books like there’s no tomorrow, so I’m shopping for new reads every few weeks. When you step into the store, you take in shelf after shelf stocked with unread stories, each one begging you to pick it up. But how do you find your next book? Fear not, dear readers, for I have a handy step-by-step guide just for you!
The beauty of dilapidation reveals the cyclical nature of life. As the grandiose is detached from the grand, each component is shown in its singular form. The seamlessness of creation is fractured, unmasking the creator’s artifice. Life is seen as it is: unfiltered and unaware.Capturing the subtle ...
Rebecca: For the most part, in my life I have never been in the position where I wanted something that was completely reasonable and could not have it. With the exception of my third grade crush who refused to hold my hand because “girls have cooties,” I have been pretty fortunate. This all came ...
The NBA playoffs will begin in mid-April, and participating in the 16-team tournament are the best eight teams from each conference. Notice that I did not say that the best 16 teams in the league are competing. That is because the Pelicans and Suns, who currently sit in the ninth and 10th positions, ...
I wish I could bake a cake filled with rainbows and smiles and everyone would eat and be happy á la Mean Girls (2004). I wish I could bake any sort of cake, really, to help me get through this week. Actually, I wish I could bake, period, since my lack of talent in the kitchen is so nonexistent it’s ...
Spring Semester Senior Year: the most fun and relaxing semester of college ... not.Chances are, SWUGs all over Somerville are doing some serious stressing and sobbing. We’ve got less than 50 days left of school, and about 49 things left on our SWUG-et lists. For those SWUGs with jobs -- congrats. ...
A few weekends ago (...as most of my columns begin, I am aware), I went with several friends to a free organ concert at Notre Dame cathedral. The very idea of it wowed me, even before the music started -- as I sat at the end of a neat row of chairs looking up at the high, vaulted ceiling, the concurrence ...
The Kingdom Animalia may never surpass Disney’s paradisiacal Animal Kingdom on the lists of young and spoiled adventurers, but it is a magnificent place, full of mix-ups and oddities even stranger than what you might find in a Disney World custodial closet. Unless, of course, what you find in said ...
