Food and high-flying
IntroductionThe food here, first off, is awesome.
Campus Life and Social LifeMy first semester as a freshman here, when you’re going out looking for a place to party or something, the frats are pretty much the place to go. I personally love dorm life right now. I went home for Spring Break and I started getting bored because I didn’t have kids walking in my room at 11:00 waking me up being like this is going on or that’s going on. It’s really exciting living in the dorms and you meet so many people. I mean, a lot of the girls I’ve met, they live 2, 3 floors up and you just meet so many people living in the dorms. Here in Boston there are so many bars if you want to meet a lot of kids from different Universities, you got to get a fake ID
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AcademicsYour class size really is not that large. You’re able to pick a lot of classes where the class size maybe 50 into 19 kids. And another thing about Tufts is, I haven’t had a TA once teach a class. I’ve had professors the entire time, which I think is a big help.
You need to take 3 semesters of strict grammar. And then you need to take at least 3 more of a culture. You could take 6 semesters of a grammar, but a lot of kids here choose to take 3 semesters of a grammar, then 3 semesters of a culture.
Student BodyThe party scene’s pretty good here. You might think that’s it a high academic school; you might think that kids might not be wanting to go out and have a good time, but you’d be surprised - kids party hard as much as they work hard. Tufts has many kids who are as smart as in the Ivy Leagues, but it’s not as cutthroat in the sense that kids aren’t like, “oh, I need to do this, I need to get this grade” and stuff. And I think that’s generally true. I think a lot of the kids here are laid back. It’s more laid back than Ivy League Schools.
In Closing...If you want to get involved in extra curriculars, it’s incredibly easy. There’s always something to sign up for. Fraternities, sports, even if you’re not Michael Jordan, or whatever you can play basketball. You can play intramurals and stuff, which are pretty competitive, believe it or not.
Workload’s kind of hefty here.