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quinn-pham
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Human: Motivation

Call me idealistic, but, for me, passion is the primary motivator when I’m considering my future career.It started when I received a LinkedIn notification — yes, LinkedIn. One of my acquaintances had shared a post about how you should not pursue your career based on your passions but instead based ...


sam
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Weidner's Words: The Norway way

Money has invaded American youth sports more and more in recent years. According to a recent report by the Aspen Institute, youth sports have grown into a$17 billion industry. This money, however, hasn’t led to an increase in youth sports participation — rather, the opposite. Participation in ...


tys
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Pretty Lawns and Gardens: The real problem with Bitcoin

I never bought into the Bitcoin hype, partly because I personally don’t believe the world is quite ready for the transition to a completely anational digital currency. But if you’ve read my column, you know I care about the intersection of environmental, political and financial issues. My issue ...


Brad-1
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The Coin Toss: NFL Week 11

Welcome to The Coin Toss, where I make bold predictions about your favorite professional sports.Let's look at how my predictions did in Week 10: PredictionOutcomeDid I get it right?Browns over FalconsBrowns 28–16 FalconsYes!Colts score 30+ on Jaguars29 points scored by ColtsNoNick Mullens 250+ ...


quinn-pham
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Human: Self-assessment

I’ve arrived at the time of year where I’m caught in the endless grind between midterms and finals and a new sort of grind: looking for internships and jobs. To make this more difficult, what I am studying at Tufts does not have a straightforward, obvious path to employment.




matt-rice_aleksi
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The Tide: Sharice Davids

Tuesday’s election was historic for many reasons. The Democrats picked up the highest number of seats in the House of Representatives since the post-Watergate election in 1974, and Republicans gained crucial seats in the Senate. But the real story of last week’s election is that of a changing America. On Jan. 3, 2019, there will be more women, more people of color and more LGBTQ people sworn into Congress than ever before. In districts from New Jersey to Maine, Florida to South Carolina and California to Oklahoma, Democrats rode a wave of enthusiasm to repudiate President Trump. That excitement on the left rippled through the least likely of states: Kansas.


nesi
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Takeaways: Not bad at all

The midterms were good. The defeatist rhetoric from Democrats needs to end because, at least this year, it isn’t true. Democrats did really well, flipping Senate seats in Nevada and Arizona.Florida’s Senate race is so unbelievably close that it has gone to an automatic recount.It is true that losses ...


jeremy
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The Anti-Bostonian: Brees over Brady

The illustrious careers of Drew Brees and Tom Brady are similar in many elements. Both make up for a lack of intrinsic athleticism with an eye for an open receiver, where they both nestle in dainty spirals in the smallest of windows against airtight coverage. They’ve both received individual accolades, ...


aneurin
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Red Star: Democracy at Tufts

We’re running up against the hard limits of student activism in the fights over affordable housing and tuition. The administration -- despite not releasing revenue estimates or a university development plan, and without consulting students -- routinely raises the cost of attendance by thousands of ...


graphic-daily-column_aleksi
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The Starving Aesthete: Music for gray days

I've got no good music for gray days. Maybe this is the product of some idiosyncrasy in my tastes; maybe there's some combination of timbre and tempo that would suit these sorts of afternoons, which seem to be continuously gathering themselves up to fall on our heads and never quite getting ...


david-1
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Postgame Press: Hot takes

Hot takes in sports are a reflection of hot takes in the world around us. We live in a polarized society. These days, foreign policy opinion leaders say that political polarization is the number one threat to the United States. More than nuclear programs and trade wars, it is our own polarization that ...


henry
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The Weekly Chirp: Finch forecast

In 21st century science, we love to use advanced technology and complex models to predict what will happen in the future -- in other words, we like forecasting stuff. Perhaps the most common example of this is the daily weather. After considering a set of variables -- such as time of year, barometric ...


tys
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Pretty Lawns and Gardens: A case for charismatic megafauna

The case against the charismatic megafauna model for conservation is strong: Publicizing species such as elephants, lions and whales skews efforts to protect lesser-known or less attractive species, including many at-risk insects, plants and crustaceans. And this, in many ways, is very true. It’s ...


Brad-1
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The Coin Toss: NFL Week 10

Welcome to The Coin Toss, where I make bold predictions about your favorite professional sports.Let's recap last week's NFL predictions: PredictionOutcomeDid I get it right?Saints over RamsSaints 45–35 RamsYes!Chiefs beat Browns by 17+ pointsChiefs 37–21 BrownsNoSteelers over RavensSteelers ...


el-centro
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El Centro: Over tea, not fire

At Tufts, we call ourselves quirky. We say that we're striving for equality and for inclusion. We say we want diversity. But who really is this "we"? Who is included in this narrative? In one of my seminar courses, I sit in the same seat every class. I won’t say that there is no shuffling, ...


nesi
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Takeaways: Disarm Tufts

In defense of the new protest policy that tries to muffle student activism by creating obstacles like prior registration, Director of Community Standards Kevin Kraft said that the policy was created for “safety concerns” and that it would “assist the university in coordinating police presence ...


jeremy
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The Anti-Bostonian: The case for a taste of humble pie

It’s an odd sensation, sitting quietly in a room full of animated and passionate friends and wanting them to walk away with their hearts broken. It’s even odder when it’s the 12th inning. Odder still is during the 15th. Unquantifiable is the 18th. Ignoring the shenanigans from last week’s ...


zach-and-brady
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Cheeses of Suburbia: Dear Mozzarella, count me in

Zachary Hertz (ZH): This week, we’re with senior and senior citizen Mary Carroll, whose most pop punk moment came when she tried to burn her Catholic school skirt after graduation. Mary Carroll (MC): I’d like to reiterate my disappointment that Trader Joe’s did not have mozzarella sticks because ...


aneurin
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Red Star: The death of democracy

The United States is not a democracy. The Senate, the Electoral College, the courts, the unaccountable security state and the concentration of power in regulatory agencies staffed by the people they’re supposed to regulate means the political process and the state are resistant to popular pressure. ...