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"Two households, both alike in dignity…"
As I was walking home from the office yesterday I ran into this poster:
Confession: I’m a bit of a theater buff and Shakespeare fanatic, so you can imagine my excitement to see one of our student-run theater groups, Bare Bodkin, playing around with the Bard. Like most people, I read Romeo and Juliet in high school English class. My history with the star-crossed lovers continued in college when I read it for a class exclusively on Shakespeare taught by one of my favorite professors. [Sidebar: that favorite professor tours the country in the late spring and early summer hosting book clubs for alumni. I’m so excited to see her for the Boston area alumni book club on The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides.] Then I saw the famous tragedy at The Globe Theatre in London while studying abroad (it was like Shakespeare in Love in Technicolor). During my senior year in college my advanced acting class was combined with the advanced directing class to perform 2-3 character excerpts of Shakespeare...
Ice Cream Wars
For some odd reason the Boston area is home to some of the best ice-cream shops in the world. For anyone visiting Boston during their college search tour, you have to give at least one or two of these shops a try.
J.P. Licks – close to Tufts in Davis Square. The ice cream is good but not great. However, because of its location it is a center of gravity on warm days for many Tufts students.
Toscanini’s in Cambridge – This is my favorite! Located a few T stops away in Central Square on the Red Line, Toscanini’s has the best ice cream I have ever had. And I do not make that statement lightly. This ice cream shop has a very hipster vibe; in fact I think big plastic glasses and skinny jeans are the expected dress code but are not required. My favorite flavor is burnt caramel ice but they also are known for experimenting with different flavors (banana basil, white Russian, bourbon, saffron) every week there is something new!
Christina’s in Cambridge- Like Toscanini’s, Christina’s is a very...
Big Speakers on Campus in April
April is quickly becoming a big month on the Tufts campus, with a slew of high profile speakers visiting. Kicking things off next week, the Tufts Democrats are bringing former Democratic National Committee chairman and current treasurer of Massachusetts, Steve Grossman, as well as former Ohio governor Ted Strickland on April 17th. Three days later, Muhammad Yunus comes to Tufts. Yunus was the winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize and is widely known as “the father of microfinance.” Before Yunus arrives on campus, students will be treated to a showing of a documentary about him, including a question and answer session with the film’s director, Gayle Ferraro. The Tufts Energy Conference then starts on April 20th, featuring a long list of high-profile speakers, including Elin Suleymanov, Ambassador of Azerbaijan to the United States. The month culminates in the Edward R. Murrow Forum on Issues in Journalism, when the anchor of NBC Nightly News, Brian Williams, addresses campus. It's...
Sweet Sixteen by the Numbers
While I personally prefer holistic info about our admissions outcomes, I know many of you like to roll around in the numbers so here's a peek at the statistical profile of the Class of 2016. Unless noted, the figures reflect students who have been offered admission.
Number of applicants: 16,378
Percent admitted: 21
Percent increase in applications since 1995: 92
Number of states represented: 50 (Hello, North Dakota!)
States with the largest number of acceptances: MA, NY, CA (CA was only 10 behind NY.)
Number from Idaho: 9
Number from Texas: 99
Number of high schools represented in applicant pool: 4,594
Number of high schools represented in the accepted class: 1,734
Percent who attend a public high school: 55
Largest number accepted from a single high school: 25 (It was a huge pool.)
Number of countries represented: 76
Percent who are foreign citizens: 10.5
Number who live abroad (includes American citizens): 485
Countries with the largest number of acceptances: China, Singapore...
Students Commit to Action
Tufts students are the type of individuals that see an issue and are compelled to be part of the solution. Maia Majumder, E12, Kate de Klerk, A12, and David Meyers, A13 recognized the magnitude of cholera outbreaks throughout the world. Together they founded the Village Zero Project (V0P) that aims to build a cholera tracking system for Bangladesh- a cholera-endemic country- that, according to the V0P website, will “create a disease propagation map in real time, which will show the geospatial proliferation of cholera and expose where outbreaks most commonly originate.” The data generated will allow for more successful implementation of intervention and remediation practices to contain the spread of cholera in the most vulnerable communities. Check out the V0P website to learn more: http://villagezeroproject.org/.
The mission of the V0P perfectly aligns with The Clinton Global Initiate University (CGIU), an organization that engages college and university students in discussions and projects...