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Jaylin Guzman

Features Columnist

Jaylin Guzman is a columnist for the features section. She is a first-year who has yet to declare a major and can be reached at jaylin.guzman@tufts.edu.

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Serve & Survey: The cost of forgetting

By Jaylin Guzman | April 10

Welcome back to another week of “Serve & Survey.” This week’s poll came from a conversation that started off casually but quickly turned existential, as most good conversations tend to do. While talking with a friend about memory loss and what it really means to ‘lose yourself’ (inspired by a late-night episode of Full House in which someone loses their memories, altering the way they interact with their loved ones), we kept circling the same question: How much of who we are is tied to what we remember? And, maybe more importantly, can you even separate the two? After all, certain memories play out the way they do because of how your personality pushes you to respond in the first place.

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Serve & Survey: Lucky you

By Jaylin Guzman | March 27

Welcome back to another week of “Serve & Survey.” This week’s question is both in honor of St. Patrick’s Day over spring break and from something I’ve noticed in everyday conversations — how often people credit outcomes to luck vs. control.

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Serve & Survey: To speak or not to speak

By Jaylin Guzman | March 6

We live in a world where conversations about politics, social issues and cultural debates seem unavoidable, and divisions on these topics seem ever-growing. Opinions travel quickly while disagreements travel even faster, and silence can sometimes feel like a statement in itself. So naturally, I wondered what people here thought about it. This week’s question was: Should you always speak up about what you believe, or is it OK to stay silent to maintain peace?

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Serve & Survey: The motive behind the motion

By Jaylin Guzman | February 27

In honor of midterms season, when Tisch Library is at its fullest and everyone suddenly becomes best friends with their Google Calendar, I wanted to ask about something related to our drive throughout all of this: our futures. Given that Tufts is a very academically rigorous institution, we’re all working hard to pass our classes. But why is there so much pressure? So this week’s question is: If productivity had no impact on your future, would you still try as hard as you do now?

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Serve & Survey: Emotionally editing humanity

By Jaylin Guzman | February 20

Welcome back to “Serve & Survey.” This week’s question came from a movie night watching Disney’s “Inside Out 2.” In the movie, a group of animated emotions fight for control, but, in the end, they learn that they are all needed to make Riley who she is. That made me wonder: What would happen if we didn’t let all of them stay?

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Serve & Survey: Cupid’s dilemma

By Jaylin Guzman | February 13

While college is known for bringing together people from countless backgrounds, it’s rare to see all those differences in one place at one time. But despite everything that makes us different, we all share the neurobiological feeling of hunger. And where else do all of our worlds collide where this need for food is met other than in a dining hall? In my view, this makes dining halls the perfect place to consider the question: How different are we, really?

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