"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...
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...
Tick Tock
Admissions committee is set to start in just over a week. You know that that means? In the words of Elder Cunningham, “it’s time to man up” or in the words of Dory “just keep swimming.”
I’m pretty sure I only know what day of the week it is because of the schedule at my gym. For example yesterday: get up at 7am, pour coffee, readreadread, lunch, readreadread, Zumba (which means it was Tuesday), dinner, pass out. Or take today: get up for 6:30am spin (which means it’s Wednesday), shower, pour coffee, readreadread, lunch, readreadread, dinner, pass out.
But day of the week doesn’t matter; reading applications matter. As we march to the end of reading season files, more often than not, you will find me in my reading season uniform (college sweatshirt, occasionally with the hood up- it’s cold in my apartment!) here:
That’s my kitchen table, otherwise known as ERD’s Application Reading Headquarters. The poster on the left is from the Imperial War Museum in London where I studied abroad in college...
Best Laid Plans
Best Laid Plans...
Here I am a month and a half after my last blog post, blushing with embarrassment for two reasons.
1. It has taken me this long to get back to the blogosphere.
2. I may or may not have completely lost track of one of my reading season resolutions. Okay, I admit it: I totally lost track.
I'm still heading to the gym. My spin addiction has not waned and I have discovered Zumba (how did I ever live without you?!?!). I've added buttermilk corn biscuits, shrimp and scallop scampi, chicken and potato curry, pepper and herb crusted pork roast and spicy corn chowder to my repertoire. I have a couple new confections ready for the gluttonous decision making fest that is regular decision admission committee.
But reading... Reading books for fun has come to a screeching halt. After reading for 9+ hours a day filling my head with your stories and the anecdotes relayed by your teachers and interviewers, I pick up a book and my eyes cross. If I'm to get up the next day...
Resolutions
The new year coincides with reading season picking up steam and so every year I feel like my New Year’s Resolutions are somehow tied to reading… at least indirectly.