When it comes to her time at the Daily, graduating senior Grace Nelson believes that everything happens for a reason.
For many seniors, graduation often signifies the start of endless new experiences — new jobs, different cities, exciting opportunities. For a select few seniors, another, perhaps more unexpected, event is also on the horizon: a wedding.
Members of the Tufts community sat in a packed auditorium on Wednesday evening while former Congressman Adam Kinzinger reflected on a decision that solidified his reputation and legacy within the American political sphere.
Going somewhere new, especially a place as sprawling and expansive as a college campus, can be intimidating. It often takes weeks or months to truly settle in and adopt a routine and sense of familiarity; however, that doesn’t mean you can’t get some help along the way. Below is a guide to some of the Features Staff’s favorite spots on campus to study, relax or hang out with friends at — perfect for whether you’ve just arrived on campus or whether you’re simply looking to explore someplace new.
For most Tufts students, senior spring is a ceremonious cap on their past four years. It marks a time to decrease workload, to enroll in fun classes and — perhaps most dauntingly — to figure out plans for the ‘real world.’
Senior Jack Wilan was digging through records of Tufts history in the Tufts Archival Research Center (TARC) last fall when he became fixated on the story of Jumbo the Elephant. Wilan wasn’t looking to learn about Jumbo, Tufts’ beloved mascot who was once one of the most famous circus attractions in the world. Instead, he was looking for information about class year distinctions in the 1900s, the topic of his research project for the archival research seminar “Tufts in American History”. But after coming across Jumbo story after story dating back over a century, Wilan quickly latched onto the mascot and its significance to Tufts’ history.
In 2015, Tufts English professor Rani Neutill received a message from her cousin, urging her to bring her estranged mother whose health was rapidly declining from India to the U.S. Neutill, who had not spoken to her mother for a year, suddenly found herself in her mother’s hometown of Kolkata, India after 48 hours of travel, forced to confront a complex and turbulent past while caring for her mother in the present.
Last week, “Wicked: For Good,” the sequel to last year’s box-office-shattering film based on the hit Broadway musical, made its highly-anticipated premiere in theatres. The film was officially released in theaters in the United States on Friday. Once again, the wonderfully weird world of Oz has been brought to our cultural forefront, with the film already projected to earn a record $200 million its opening weekend.
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.
No matter where you fall on the ideological spectrum or how you feel about politics, I think we can all agree on one thing: this is certainly not “The Good Place.”
