Tufts for a Racially Equitable Endowment (TREE), a new organization on campus, raises awareness of the private prison system and, according to TREE's Facebook page, pushes Tufts to divest.
In 2003, then-Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg created a website called FaceMash, which allowed users to judge a student’s attractiveness using a hot-or-not system. Though Harvard shut down the website after two days due to privacy violations, Zuckerberg's success with this original idea led to ...
If you haven’t already heard, Instagram has been rolling out the act of hiding likes on the platform, an action that the app has already taken in other countries but was met with pushback in the United States. This doesn’t mean that likes will be disappearing forever; they will only be visible to ...
The fall of my senior year of high school, pictures taken at the Museum of Ice Cream took over each and every one of my social media feeds. With cutesy inspirational sayings, colorful backdrops and picture-perfect lighting at all moments, how could they not? Tickets to this experience would be sold ...
Content warning: This article discusses sexual assault and mental health.Recently, Tufts Secrets has taken a dark turn. Looking through the thousands of Facebook posts on the crowd-sourced anonymous page, you’ll notice there are uplifting and hopeful secrets, ones that are quite silly, and unfortunately, ...
This past weekend I watched "Eat Pray Love" (2010), in which Liz Gilbert has an existential crisis and decides to travel around the world to, well, eat, pray and fall in love.The memoir which inspired the film was published in 2006 when MySpace and Facebook were up and coming but most definitely ...
Two weeks ago, I decided to re-download Tinder on a whim after promising myself I would never use it for anything other than my personal entertainment ever again. As always, it was entertaining at first. I “Super Liked” my friends, swiped right on people I thought were cute (but knew I would probably ...
Lately, I’ve been having some trouble being present. I don’t know when exactly my mind stopped honing in on the "now" the way it did over the summer and shape-shifted into one that is always thinking about the next thing on my to-do list: who I’ll be meeting for a meal (when sometimes ...
Of all the things I value highly, my relationships with other people sit at the top of that list. I can say with confidence that my most treasured memories at Tufts take the form of discussions that I’ve had with my friends about many things in life. By nature, I’m more inclined to spend time with ...
You see them everywhere. Those little journals that have you write down the answer to "one question a day" for five years or "something you did that made you happy." Or books telling you how to always be in good spirits when everything might not be going so great. Or Instagram accounts ...
