In lieu of a typical column -- 600-ish words written by someone who has a genuine interest in a thing that is genuinely interesting -- this week I will be sharing something I wrote with a friend. It’s not particularly pertinent, radically relevant or especially excellent, but it was a lot of fun to write and maybe a little fun to read.
In the New York Times last week, writer Jon Ronson chronicled the swift demise of a woman named Justine Sacco at the hands of a ruthless Twitter mob. With each successive tableau, Sacco makes her way gradually from antagonist to victim, her situation reaching a nadir, perhaps, when she is disowned ...
Paris is changing me.It’s probably for the better, to be honest -- though I’m unsure whether or not I’m eating healthier overall, there is one culinary item on which I have cut back a lot: coffee.At Tufts, I was known to drink three or more Hotung coffees per day, a habit which made me much ...
With the Patriots winning Super Bowl XLIX in heroic fashion a mere week-and-a-half ago, writers everywhere discussed the greatness of Tom Brady and Bill Belichick as a duo. After all, they have won four Super Bowls together and were NFL runner-ups on two other occasions in 2008 and 2012. Despite what ...
Happy Thursday, Jumbos, and welcome to the shortest week ever (seriously, blink and you’ll miss it). I think Elsa might have been a little pissed I called her last week, because since then she’s been throwing the tantrum to end all tantrums. And the result? Boston is buried under mountains of snow, ...
Pooja: As a third-year survivor of Massachusetts’ harsh winter conditions, there are some lessons that I have learned along the way. Firstly, a standard answer for the typical, “What’s your biggest fear?” questions: hands down, BLACK ICE. For those of you that don’t have it as your top-priority ...
For approximately the first seven years of my life, I didn’t realize the significance or limitations of gender. I knew that I was a girl because I was told that I was a girl. I even thought that being a girl was better than being a boy because we were allowed to wear both dresses and pants, and could ...
Since I took my last column to look back at the Goya exhibition, this week I chose the Klimt and Kokoschka works that are currently on view at the MFA.Diverging from the darkness which characterizes Goya’s work, a permeation of light defines Klimt’s manner of creation. Klimt creates a fantasy world ...
Reestablishing diplomatic relations with Cuba has been one of Obama’s most controversial actions in office. New policies will affect everything from economics to immigration, and most importantly, human rights.Under the embargo, Cuba’s isolation made it insusceptible to US pressure, but the Obama ...
Perhaps Morocco took its cue from Governors Christie and Cuomo. Unlike the governors, however, Morocco will be made to pay -- literally.On Sunday, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) fined the Royal Moroccan Football Federation (RMFF) $1 million for reneging on its commitment to host the 2015 ...
When I was a kid, I learned that if you don't have something nice to say about someone, then you shouldn't say anything at all. I think that's why I've actively avoided writing about the Boston Celtics as long as I've had this column. That, and I just flat-out stopped caring.Sorry ...
After class the other day, I went to a sandwich shop I hadn’t tried yet, intent on buying a cheap lunch and doing some coursework. The man behind the counter was friendly and seemed to know many of the students also eating there, and he smiled at me as I ordered my sandwich. As I handed over my money, ...
Last week I tackled the question of whether or not I’d melt like a belieber clutching the Biebs when meeting my own teenage crush, Cyborg the Teen Titan (given that, of course, Cyborg could crush just about anything).
The poetry of Robert Frost undoubtedly occupies an important place in American literature. Unfortunately, much of his work has faded into academia, analyzed in English class but not otherwise enjoyed. Nevertheless, Frost primarily wrote his poems for the enjoyment of his public readership, and it is ...
Short stories fall in a gray area between full-length novels and poetry, not quite long enough to consume a printed book all on its own in most cases, but not short enough to be limited to a few pages of text. It is easy to write pages and pages of words to convey an idea or message, but it takes masterful writers to compress their stories in such a way that they can be told in only a few dozen pages. The way short stories are written is tricky, as the author has to utilize carefully constructed sentences to imply storylines and details that aren’t explicitly written.
Shortstop appears to be an extremely top-heavy position entering the 2015 season. My list of top 10 fantasy shortstops for the upcoming season is filled with big names, but by the mid-teens, nearly all the reliable, consistent performers will be off the board.Troy Tulowitzki, Ian Desmond, Hanley Ramirez ...
Dear Facebook groups,I’ve been thinking about you a lot recently. One of my friends from home decided to join the Tufts 2018 class page recently, tagging me in posts left and right. For example, he decided to advertise the information that I was auctioning off a ticket to Winter Gala. The many people ...
Condiments act as punctuation marks for food. Like an apostrophe or a semicolon, you might easily leave one out. But condiments, like commas, can radically change the environment they inhabit. This week, I wanted to leave you guys with a few simple things to mix, drizzle and glaze on your regular dishes ...
NBA All-Star weekend will take place in New York City over the weekend of Feb. 13-15. The various competitions and events are meant to be a celebration of the best players from each conference at the halfway point of the season, but all too often the game has featured big names instead of the best players. ...
