Your Home
Even in your first-year at Tufts, you’ll have a lot of options. Freshman can choose to live in a dorm with just freshman students or in mixed class housing with sophomores, juniors, and seniors. You could join the Bridge Program in Metcalf Hall where faculty will join you in common rooms to talk about politics, ethics, or education. Or perhaps you’d prefer suite style housing.
Your sophomore year brings even more choices on campus. You can continue living in the dorms and grab a quad in West Hall, noted for its “Collegiate Gingerbread Architecture,” or try something different like living in a house or blocking off an apartment with your friends. If you want more flavor, elect to live in Special Interest Houses. Practice your Spanish in La Casa; Assalaamu alaikum in the Muslim Unit, learn customs from all over the world living in the I-House. Go ahead: live in the Crafts House, and participate in the vegetarian/vegan co-op program that serves dinner with an open invitation to the rest of campus.
Of course, all on-campus rooms come equipped with the basics: a bed, a desk and desk chair, a dresser and a closet. They all have high-speed internet, cable, and a telephone line in the room, and each dormitory at Tufts offers laundry facilities, vending machines and small kitchens for cooking.
College is about meeting people, after all, and living on campus is the best way to do that. All of our dorms feature common spaces: comfortable lounges and areas for group study. Most lounges include televisions and games tables, such as air hockey, ping-pong, pinball, or pool tables. The common areas are maintained by Tufts, but you and your hallmates will make the space your own. You'll find that there is always someone around who wants to share a cup of coffee, study with you, watch a movie, or stay up for a late-night conversation.
Find more information (including floor plans!) at the Office of Residential Life and Learning.
Your Food
Our large selection of inspired foods has been rated among the best college food in the country. We offer foods for every taste and diet: home-cooking style entrees, vegetarian/vegan, Kosher foods and more.
Tufts has two main dining halls: Carmichael and Dewick-MacPhie. They vary their menu every day, and have dozens of options at each meal in addition to specialty nights like Make-Your-Own-Sundae and Belgian Waffle Night. You can even check the menus online (when school is in session). For busy days, or picnics with friends, you can get a complete meal to take with you through the Hodgdon Good-To-Go program. All freshmen have an unlimited meal plan which admits you to every meal served in the dining halls and at Hodgdon.
You can use cash or “JumboCash” at our other campus eateries including: the Campus Center Commons, which offers both indoor and patio seating; Café Hotung, a late-night campus hangout which often features live music; Jumbo Express, our campus convenience store; the Rez, a bakery with award-winning brownies; and Brown & Brew, Tufts' cozy coffee shop that consistently rates as a favorite hangout and study spot.
But Tufts Dining is more than just good food. A dietician helps enjoy the student body is fed in a healthy way, and the dining staff takes its commitment to Green Initiatives really seriously. Tufts Food Awareness Project recently introduced organic foods and locally grown produce into dining hall recipes. For years the dining halls have made efforts to compost all food scraps. As a result of a student project, the a la cart dining establishments have changed the way they consume paper goods.
For more information on food at Tufts, please visit the Tufts Dining Services website.
