Tufts Blogs

1) Jetlag will make you hate time zones, circadian rhythms, and life itself for at least a week and a half.

2) The new location of the Physics and Astronomy department, with its rainbow colours, crazy angles, and glowing orbs of light, could be straight out of a 60’s Star Trek set (anyone spot the Jefferies tubes?).

3) Mathematics can and will model everything you see. (CALC3).

4) Nothing you see has any kind of absolute existence. All the physics you’ve ever been taught is a lie. The universe (and everything in it) is an illusion (PHY13).

5) But we’ll model it anyway. Even when the mathematical model doesn’t resemble the real thing in any intelligible way (But what is real in the first place?) (MATH70)

6) The world runs on power, but not the kind you’d think (ES3).

7) Do androids dream of electric sheep? Why would they, when the real thing is so much cuddlier? (I saw a real live sheep for the first time in my life, funnily enough, on the Tufts Academic Quad).

8) There’s nothing like a great view to start up your day.

9) Sometimes, simply turning up counts a lot more than you think it might.

10) Whichever hemisphere I'm in, regardless of the time and space separating them, I will find a home. Because home isn’t just the place you were born in, and family isn’t just those who share your blood.