He showed her the drawings she’d made - one each of a hand, a chair, and a woman’s face. Then he showed her some of his other students’ drawings from the class. “Jenny, you’ve got something here. I know you don’t want to continue with this particular class, but I don’t want you to give up on art. I want you to sign up for another course. How about drawing?” He stated this in a...

I was raised in a Cape Cod-style house on a sleepy, little street called *** Road. There is nothing particularly outstanding about this street: no businesses, monuments, or establishments of note, but with the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the neighborhood was awakened. Our little street wanted to reach out to people affected by the attacks, so we formed a charity that we called, “Spread the Bread.” Mothers and children baked breads together, attached homemade cards, and delivered them to local firehouses and...

My two closest friends and I have a time-honored tradition of meeting for Sunday brunch at the local diner every week. We call ourselves, “The Breakfast Club.” We savor the opportunity to unwind together over the syrup-drenched goodness of breakfast at such a familiar and comforting location. Our food orders never vary: I go for the banana chocolate chip pancakes (truly a heavenly combination), while Caitlin goes for the gluttonous “Wayland Warrior” and Colleen orders a mundane Belgian waffle with...

I have been a vegetarian my entire life, even preceding the moment of my birth. My mom, who decided to become a vegetarian in her teenage years, has not eaten meat of any form since. As my mom did not eat meat while she was pregnant with me, I never really did get a say in whether I personally wanted to be a vegetarian. Not only a vegetarian, but a strict one: one would not eat even a trace of...

I have four primary goals I would like to achieve during my college experience, one from each of the following themes: academic, creative, professional, and personal. Academically, I have always enjoyed approaching complex problems from a broad perspective, rather than from the narrow confines of a single discipline. Sciences of all varieties have been my passion since the eighth grade; however, I do not want to focus on the “pure” form of any one particular field of science. My academic...

At Tufts I am involved in multiple different areas of student life. I have a job on campus in the Career Center where I am a student assistant, primarily dealing with administrative tasks. I...