Con: Should You Move Back to Your Hometown?
Growing up in a small town in the American South, one topic of conversation was a constant amongst my peers: growing up and moving to the big city. My friends and I would go on about the ignorance of the adults around us and how slowly life moved. So, when I was 14, I did […]
Pro: Should You Move Back to Your Hometown?
I love my small town. I love walking along its one main street and recognizing every other face I see. Above all else, I love the forced connection that a tight-knit community brings. Because of this, even though my major is International Relations, I know I’m moving back to my hometown. That being said, all […]
Con: Has STEM Education Lost The Plot?
STEM education remains true to its purpose: to serve as an intentional leveraging of human talent to increase human efficiency, survival, and comfort. Among the advanced traits that propelled humanity toward global dominance, perhaps the most significant feature is our collaborative ability. Humans consistently cooperate across kin and tribe, and we recognize the fruits of […]
Pro: Has STEM Education Lost The Plot?
With both of my parents as graduate-level STEM professors and my brother a civil engineer, I am no stranger to indoctrination into STEM’s superiority. As a junior premedical biology major engaged in biomedical engineering research, I was taught early that exploration of the humanities was a hobby, not a pursuit of equal intellectual weight. In […]
Show Me The Money: The Tufts Tuition Pact and its Influence on Social Mobility
Students in search for details about Tufts’s tuition will find a striking change to the webpages dedicated to cost-of-attendance information. Now, front and center on the “Tuition and Aid” tab of the Undergraduate Admissions site, there is a bright yellow rectangle containing the words, “Tufts Tuition Pact.” The university recently announced this commitment, which will […]
Tufts University Ends Relationship with Non-Voting Delegate: A Satirical Perspective
Tufts University announced in mid-November that it would be cutting ties with Stacey Plaskett, the U.S. Virgin Islands non-voting delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives, over a decision not to vote on an amendment to H.R. 1449. The Amendment, which failed to pass, would have extended the timeline for determining geothermal drilling permit completeness […]
Exploring a Career in the Defense Industry: An In-Depth Reflection
Every year, the U.S. Department of Defense receives a large amount of money from Congress. Much of the money is distributed in the form of private contracts to a domestic arms industry larger than the rest of the world’s combined. And every fall, undergraduate engineers, mathematicians—shoot, even psychologists—scramble for the opportunity to work in what […]