The Goldilocks School
When I was applying to colleges, I felt that size really mattered. I toured some smaller liberal arts schools, but I didn’t like the idea of going to…
After taking my first midterm exam, working on my first big project, and turning in my first big paper, I’m ready to agree with popular opinion: October is the spookiest month. And it wasn’t just ghosts and ghouls that took me by surprise during this month of horrors.
Here I’ve made a list of all of the shocking twists (both good and bad) that came with the second month of the semester:
I’m pretty sure I heard the word “bombogenesis” tossed around more than once in this week alone. Not alone did it go from mid seventies to low fifties in the blink of an eye, but the gloomy sky and near constant downpours of this past month have proved New England’s temperamental climate to be true to its reputation.
During the first month of school, I had accepted the fact that I’d never understand the layout of Tufts campus, and had decided to shamelessly rely on the help of trusty Google Maps. Yet, to my suprise, by midway through October, the campus geography suddenly makes perfect sense. I can honestly say that, through unexpected, I haven’t gotten lost once in the past week. I guess it really only takes a month to get used to the ins and outs of Jumbo stomping grounds!
October, for most students, means the end of getting-to-know-you games and start of crack-down season. Though in high school, the first three weeks of the month were spent organizing group costumes and getting in the holiday spirit, I can honestly say that I forgot about the festivities entirely until mid-way through Halloweek. My advisor wasn’t kidding when she said that classes tend to ramp up in the end of the second month, and I’ve been starting to think more and more about the extra long drop-course period granted to first years.
In the beginning of November, I would say that the biggest surprise has been how settled I feel, all of a sudden, in my day to day life. Two months in, I’ve joined clubs, gotten a job, and made friends that have all added a stability to a start that I wouldn’t hesitate to call…"shaky." I’m so wonderfully surprised with how much this campus is beginning to feel normal, and while I’m still relishing in the newness of it all, I have to say that October really caught me off guard by being the month in which I started to feel normal, comfortable, and right at home.
After the surprising twists and turns of this second month, Halloween had nothin’ on me! Vampires, Witches, and Werewolves paled in comparison to the spooky happenings of this haunted month and I’m, upon reflecting, proud to say that I’ve survived what was a month chock-full of jump scares, many of which were strikingly pleasant!
When I was applying to colleges, I felt that size really mattered. I toured some smaller liberal arts schools, but I didn’t like the idea of going to…
It’s Monday everyone! I’ve just spent the weekend studying and engaging in Boston’s gastronomy, but now it’s time to start the week. I truly hope…
I remember thinking to myself when I first applied to Tufts, “Why Medford of all places?”. My whole life, all I ever wanted was to move to a big…