Tufts Shouldn’t Have a “Great Books” Requirement
As an English major, I humbly confess that I have never read Dante’s Inferno, nor have I read Homer’s Iliad or Odyssey. The endeavor to
As an English major, I humbly confess that I have never read Dante’s Inferno, nor have I read Homer’s Iliad or Odyssey. The endeavor to
Several weeks ago, as I walked to Spanish class from Professor Vickie Sullivan’s Western Political Thought I lecture, I ran into four classmates who were
In our increasingly isolated world, loneliness exists in abundance. While the forces of social media, political polarization, and ever-intensifying individualism are pulling people further from
The first three months of college were one of the loneliest times of my life. Coming into a new environment and leaving the connections and
As an educator, I spend a huge amount of time thinking about teaching and learning. I believe strongly that students should have a forum to
Course selection for the spring semester is upon us. 13,000 Tufts students, not to mention the 15 million university students nationwide, must take out their
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
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
At first glance, the push for “viewpoint diversity” seems like a noble endeavor. Who wouldn’t want more diverse voices to have a place in academic