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Your newest café: The Buzzin’ Bean hopes to empower individuals with autism while serving tasty treats

By Sophie Axelrod | November 20

Are you still disappointed that the Joyce Cummings Center Starbucks disappeared or constantly angry that The Sink line STILL is not getting any shorter during your 12 to 1:15 p.m. lunch break? Do not fear: Just minutes away from campus lies a new(ish) café, The Buzzin’ Bean, serving homemade pastries, entrees and drinks. 

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Munching with Max: The midnight ride

By Max Druckman | November 20

Once the clocks “fall back” during the first weekend in November, there are very few things that can get me out of the house at night. Darkness descends at 4 p.m., and a dreary, frigid air engulfs Medford, greatly diminishing my aptitude for external munching.

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Tufts literary lovers book it to Boston for the 17th annual Boston Book Festival

By Olivia Bye | November 19

One Saturday every October, Tufts students can hop on the Green Line and, after 30 minutes, arrive at New England’s largest literary festival. The Boston Book Festival, located in the bustling Copley Square, is one of Boston’s biggest events of the year, drawing upwards of 25,000 attendees annually. The event hosts hundreds of authors, moderators and vendors to celebrate the city’s vibrant literary community. This year’s festival was held on Oct. 25 and saw more than 200 authors and moderators in over 70 sessions, including keynote speakers such as Geraldine Brooks, Patricia Cornwall, Kiran Desai, Maureen Dowd and Hafsah Faizal.

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A follow up to ‘An analysis of Tufts meal plans: The math is not mathing’

By Ella Sanders | November 18

Last month, I wrote an article titled “An analysis of Tufts meal plans: The math is not mathing” after learning about the pricing structure of the Tufts meal plan.

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A Jumbo shift: Switching majors at Tufts

By Trey Lawrence | November 17

Tufts prides itself on being an interdisciplinary institution. With over 150-plus majors and minors for students to choose from, students often find themselves exploring new intellectual interests that may shape their academic and career goals.

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The story of Venerable Vineetha Mahayaye: What you find when you leave everything behind

By Sera Kwon | November 13

It is human nature to care about how others perceive us. We curate ourselves based on those expectations, learning early on what earns love and attention and what does not. You were told you were the funny one, so now you are afraid people will judge you if you are serious. You have always assumed you were bad at math because you were never placed into the accelerated math class in third grade (might not be over that one).

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A Jumbo’s Journey: All of this, and here we are

By Ben Rachel | November 13

If you have been keeping up to date with my column publications, you would know (based on my last column) that I was recently in the trenches and in the midst of midterms. As of this past Wednesday, I finished all my midterms for the fall 2025 season — just in time for finals!

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Worth Going Broke?: Butter chicken for breakfast? Yes, please!

By Eloise Bernstein | November 12

When I was making my Parents’ Weekend restaurant lineup, one task felt particularly daunting: finding the perfect brunch spot. I wanted something cozy and classic but still interesting, somewhere that I could force someone to share a sweet and a savory dish with me so I could get the best of both worlds. After scrolling through enough Google reviews to qualify as research, I landed on Rosebud Bar & Kitchen, a Davis Square classic that was reborn in recent years to have a new twist.

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Tufts Mood Psychology deserves your attention

By Pranya Taurani | November 7

While they have a relatively small following on campus, make no mistake: Tufts Mood Psychology is changing the media scene. This completely student-run organization focuses on making documentaries (in both English and Chinese) that connect the real lives of students to important psychological concepts. Episodes from their latest series, “Flash in My Life,” are screened in Barnum Hall regularly.

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Astana: The city that is not Almaty

By Max Turnacioglu | November 7

Besides its claim to the title of second coldest capital city in the world, Astana, Kazakhstan is renowned for its architecture — in fact, mentions of the city are always accompanied by reference to its futuristic architectural style. After 17 hours of pacing, playing cards, intermittent sleep on a stiff fold-down bed and watching the low hills of the Kazakh Steppe race by the train window, I was prepared to be unimpressed by the city of Astana. Yet, even bleary-eyed and weakly shuffling after our tour guide, the sleek, fantastical skyline of Astana throttled me into amazement. 

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Munching with Max: Second chances

By Max Druckman | November 5

We all make mistakes. Whether it be hitting your 5-year-old brother in the face with a pitch or smashing your side-view mirror into your friend’s mailbox, sometimes, we just mess up. (Don’t ask me where I came up with those examples.)

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What is Somerville’s plan for the Winter Hill Community Innovation School?

By Audrey Peel | November 4

Since the Winter Hill Community Innovation School closed in June 2023 after a piece of concrete fell from the ceiling, students have been relocated across the city, continuing their education in temporary spaces. It has been a long journey for the children and their families. After missing four days of school, students were divided among the Capuano Early Childhood Center, Olin Hall at Tufts University and the former Edgerly Education Center. The student body was reunited last fall in the Edgerly building at 8 Bonair St., where they have remained since.

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Meet the dog mayor behind Somerville’s most important paw-licies

By Claire Wood | November 4

Friday marked an interesting milestone in my journalism career: I conducted my first-ever interview with a dog. Meet Jake — or, as his constituents affectionately call him, Jake the Dog — Somerville’s first and newly elected dog mayor. A longtime resident with over a decade of experience sniffing out the city’s best parks, Jake knows Somerville inside and out. From meeting neighbors on his daily walks to attending events, he is very active in the community. His owner (and campaign manager), Shani Leichter, spoke to the Daily about Jake’s campaign experience as well as his plans for his mayorship.

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What are Tufts students getting out of their distribution requirements?

By Navya Singh | November 3

Distribution requirements are a core part of the Tufts liberal arts curriculum. While fulfilling them may feel like a burden for students, the university offers courses specifically tailored for humanities majors who need to fulfill natural science or mathematics requirements, and STEM majors who need to complete their humanities or arts requirements.

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Biology meets language immersion: The new Tufts in Costa Rica summer program

By Katie Galligan | October 31

Tufts in Costa Rica is a new summer program that promises a transformative experience for students by combining Spanish language immersion and culture with biology field work. The five-and-a-half-week program will take place fromMay 18th to June 25thin San José as well as two research stations in the rainforest.

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A Jumbo’s Journey: midterms are calling OUR phones

By Ben Rachel | October 29

Well here we are again. Midterm season. Let’s do some math together. This is my third year writing “A Jumbo’s Journey,” equating to just under five semesters. Given that each semester comes with a midterm season — some lasting months — this makes midterm piece number five. Wow, I am quickly losing content.

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Tufts comedians react to Jimmy Kimmel’s cancellation and reinstatement

By Max Lerner | October 28

When ABC took Jimmy Kimmel off the air on Sept. 17, many of us were simply experiencing it as concerned Americans. However, there are people around the country — including many at Tufts — who experienced it through a much more specific lens: that of the comedian.

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Munching with Max: Learning to strike out

By Max Druckman | October 27

Those of you who know me will understand that the 50% of my brain not occupied by food is concentrated on baseball (I know, scientists have already asked to study it). Most of the time, this arrangement isn’t productive — thinking about Trader Joe’s Buffalo Chicken Dip doesn’t help me when staring down a 3–2 count. Other times though, my dual thought processes can be fruitful.

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Exploring Trader Joe’s fall items

By Sanya Bandekar | October 24

As the air turns crisp and bright leaves fall from the trees lining President’s Lawn, a familiar taste of cinnamon, maple and chai — and perhaps some notes of consumerism — fills the aisles of a fan-favorite grocery store: Trader Joe’s. 

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Almaty: The city of night buses

By Max Turnacioglu | October 24

The bitter memory of a homophobic stand-up routine continued to curdle in my mouth as I looked out into the street beside me. A few cars idled at the light, but the night was otherwise silent. Trolley Bus No. 8 was nowhere to be found. In a night already punctuated by poor jokes, this may have been the worst: my phone lay dead in my pocket — willingly discarded in the name of challenge — and my only guide home was a Soviet-era Russian–English dictionary, with pages 28, 31 and 79 dog-eared as an ingenious reminder of which buses I needed to take.

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