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I would give quality of life a 9 out of 10. If you like Boston more
than New York, then you??ll love Tufts. Tufts is a fifteen minute T
(subway/metro) ride outside of Boston, or a ten minute ride from Harvard
Square, where most people tend to go when they go into the city. Then
there??s Davis Square itself, which is nearest city center- a five minute
walk from campus filled with cafes (plus Starbucks), a movie
theater/music venue, restaurants, etc. The campus itself is very nature-
y and the surrounding area caters to people who like to relax, go for
nice walks or runs, and just chill out on the grass. The campus is
about a ten-minute walk from any one side to the other, and it is very
green, with pretty buildings. Tufts is divided into its uphill and
downhill residences, which each make up their own community. If you
live uphill your freshman year, you??ll probably stay there for the next
three years, without ever acknowledging the existence of downhill, and
vice versa. You eat at different dining halls, hang out with different
people, and basically never feel the need to venture far away from
home. The cause for the division? The treacherous hill in between.
Though it may seem like an innocent little incline, by the end of the
first semester you will realize it??s trickery as the slant is extended
from the very moment you set foot onto campus, to the moment you exit.
Okay, so you just get spoiled and end up driving to classes, as pathetic
as that is.
Dining halls are good. Unlimited food makes you gain the freshman
fifteen after one week because of frozen yogurt machines that call to
you to remain standing next to them while you keep refilling your cone
with different flavors. So the food part is good, but I definitely felt
scammed with the meal card system. You basically have no choice but to
buy a card that has way too many meals on it, all of which you lose at
the end of each semester. I envied other schools that had the option of
trading extra meals into cash with registered stores where they could
buy stacks of Snapple, Starbucks Frappucinos and pop-tarts at the end of
the year.
Though overrun by slumlords, housing is pretty good. Freshman and
sophomore year you??re guaranteed space. Sophomore year you get to pick
your space, and your turn is determined by a lottery number. West Hall
is first pick for all, as it is located closest to classes, has the
highest ceilings as is essentially the coolest place to be (starting
point of the Unofficial Annual Naked Quad Run). Junior and Senior years
when living off campus, the biggest concern is townies hacking the
wooden posts of your porch to steal your bike- (it happens). So keep
your bikes inside and doors locked, and you??ll be fine.
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