This semester, more so than previous semesters, I have made the trip home on the Northeast Regional train. As I sit on my 6:10 a.m. train to Penn Station from South Station, I have too much time on my hands. Moreover, I have to go through my least favorite state in the continental United States: Connecticut. ...
I was in New York last weekend and was completely shocked when I passed a Pottery Barn with lit-up Christmas trees and teddy bears surrounding a big white bed with billowy covers. This seemed out of place considering it was Nov. 7. And then I passed Bryant Park, totally transformed into a skating rink surrounded by kiosks selling Christmas ornaments in the shape of your home state, a taxi cab or a cowboy boot. But it’s not even Thanksgiving yet!
Perhaps it was the perks of a (seemingly) long weekend or a random stroke of ambition, but for once in my life, my most bizarre (and rewarding) nights were on a Sunday and Monday. After a long weekend of interesting endeavors (from seeing Shaggy at the Wilbur Theatre, to "Gone Girl" (2014) ...
The New England Patriots were off this Sunday, hopefully getting some much-deserved rest after whipping Peyton Manning's Broncos 43-21 in Week 9. The victory, New England's fifth in a row, improved the team's record to a division and conference-best of 7-2. The Broncos are 7-2 as well after ...
Hello literature lovers! It’s been a long week at the tail end of a long month, and I’m sure everyone is still rattling from the aftershocks of midterms. The only things getting me through it all are numerous -- yet massive -- cups of coffee and the books I’ve been reading to balance the madness. ...
I mentioned last week that I usually restrict myself to topics about which I know everything, and then put my money where my mouth is by discussing coffee in the greatest detail. Today I’ll talk about something almost as far up my alley, but I’ll be doing it quickly, as this column is due in 48 minutes: ...
This week I learned what the word “ombudsman” means. An ombudsman is an official who investigates maladministration, and perhaps unsurprisingly, ESPN has one. They’ve actually had several ombudsmen, and the current one, Robert Lipsyte, published a piece last Tuesday. Lipsyte’s latest article ...
To a physiologist, it’s the stimulation of the zygomatic major muscle coupled with the constriction of the larynx via the epiglottis. To a psychologist, it’s a social bonding behavior men use to pursue women. To a comedian, especially in Barcelona, where comedy clubs have started charging customers ...
The concept of tanking is as entrenched as ever in the culture of the NBA today. The idea of “being bad to become good” is a strategy that some teams have employed, most recently the Sixers of today and the 2011-2012 Charlotte Bobcats. The organizations both built teams to deliberately lose in order ...
This past summer, The New York Times ran a story about Anna, a freshman at Hobart and William Smith College who was raped at a party in October 2012.After reluctantly reporting the case to her school’s administration, Anna lost many of her friends, was forced to deal with an insensitive, biased investigation ...
“I am a philosophical nomad disguised in Western clothing, a wondering drifter, masquerading in a suit near a California beach. Sand forms the foundation of my being, and its porosity is at once my greatest strength and deepest wound.”Who said it? I’ll give you three guesses, and we’ll do it ...
Dear SWUG, I had a very spooky Halloween weekend. On top of receiving text messages of various anagrams of my name from a mysterious number, an intruder in a blonde wig with a French accent broke into my house on Saturday night and woke up my housemate asking if I was home. I’m so freaked out, and ...
On Nov. 1, primetime television viewers were reminded of the meaning of musical virtuosity when Prince took the SNL stage with an eight-minute set of new material backed by the female power trio 3rdEyeGirl. The seamless transitions between songs and a glimpse of what landed him on Rolling Stone’s ...
Amidst midterm season, things other than studying and ordering food to Tisch seem to fall by the wayside. Personal upkeep is often the first thing thrown overboard. Personally, I have not seen the inside of the gym for three weeks. My first midterm killed my gym momentum (and also the fact that summer ...
Tom Brady and Peyton Manning are the best rivalry in Boston sports, and it's not even close. The Red Sox and Yankees haven't made the playoffs concurrently since 2009 and haven't crossed paths in October since their historic 2004 ALCS. The Lakers and Celtics were both terrible last year ...
Ironically, I wrote last week’s piece on the merits of getting out and exploring spaces beyond Tufts, but this week I am all about the merits of bringing people to you and the weirdly satisfying joy of sharing your day-to-day experiences with another. Throughout the past two weeks, between hosting ...
Dear Clean Freaks,Don’t worry, I’m not here to criticize your “irrational” obsession with sanitation. I swore that I would never become one of you after living with my mother -- who vacuums the walls of our house just for fun -- for 18 years. But upon arriving at college and suddenly being confined ...
I hear that course registration for the spring semester starts this week. I’m studying abroad again next semester so I won’t be joining you for that fun process, but it takes me back to my own comical registration process here in Ghana -- a veritable scavenger hunt which, believe it or not, made ...
Of all the topics in sports this week to write on, the one that came way too close to materializing in this column was the return of Mark Sanchez. In true Sanchez fashion, when Nick Foles was knocked out of the game by Texans linebacker Whitney Mercilus, he mustered a halfway decent performance en ...
Hey everybody. This is usually the part of the column where I make some kind of silly, zany remark to grab everyone’s attention. This week, for reasons that will soon become very apparent, I’ve decided to take a more serious tone.I’ve never been one for trigger warnings. I’ve always thought ...
