<p>yeah to gojumbos - the construction over there is finishing up though. and seriously, there is a LOT of grass on campus - if you live uphill, it's not exactly THAT far to the academic quad or the president's lawn to hang out on. downhill doesn't really have a quad, maybe the space between haskell and lewis, but i live in South and we just lounge on the grass in front of South/Latin Way.</p>
<p>Edited because I didn't see Cosmo's questions.</p>
<p>Cosmo: I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE the IR program here. I came here thinking i'd be Poli Sci, but I cannot pass up how wonderful the IR program is. All the professors, requirements and such are wonderful. Because of the IR program, as well, we have a big international student population, which is wonderful. I love that my roommate is from South Korea and that I have friends from Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.</p>
<p>I'm very involved with the music program and I'm not majoring in it. And I don't think most of the people in Chorale or Chamber Singers are music majors - we just love singing on the side, and everyone is SO talented. I'm thinking of doing vocal and piano lessons, too - there are scholarships so that you don't have to pay full price for the lessons, and if you declare even a minor in music they cover 90% of the cost of lessons. ALSO, our music department is finally getting a brand new building next year - the music program, as a result, is undergoing lots of improvements and being given a lot more. Btw, I hear all the music faculty are amazing. My choir director is fantastic, and the Beethoven teacher was voted Perfect Professor at Tufts for a few years. I personally am thrilled.</p>
<p>What were your classes freshman year? I was trying to go through all the requirements and everything, and this is what I came up for the fall semester? I intend to be an IR major; am I crazy? Too hard? Too easy? Also - how hard is it to get an A in English and get out of English 2?</p>
<p>Another question: I thought I read somewhere Boston schools allow you to take credit at neighboring institutions and transfer it to where you're getting your degree. So like taking philsophy courses at Harvard and getting credit at Tufts. Does this even exist?</p>
<p>Thanks again guys, you've been really helpful. I'm visiting Tufts next Monday, very excited :)</p>
<p>They have quotas telling professors not to give too many As out for english I as they believe it is in a students' best interests to have as much english as possible. However, it's doable. I managed to get an A- in english I though ironically I must take english II for grad school. You can also replace english II by taking philosophy I.</p>
<p>lspf72 - there are tons of runners/joggers. a lot of people do the Boston Marathon with president Larry Bacow - they meet to run every morning to train.</p>
<p>alanstewart - for an IR major, that sounds fine. I'm assuming you've already filled the science requirement with APs, but if not, you might also want to get a science requirement out of the way. I'd suggest Environmental Bio, and if not, then maybe Astronomy. BUT I gotta warn you about Logic! People sign up for it thinking "it's not math, it's not math!" but apparently it ends up being a B<em>TCH. Why not take something like Stat...also there are bull</em>**** maths offered like Symmetry and Math of Social Choice, although they're usually in high demand by people who don't want to take real math, so you may have to wait until you're a senior to take them.</p>
<p>Keep in mind though that you want a good schedule in terms of LOTS of things - first semester of freshman year there are TONS of requirements to fill, so nearly everything will fill something or other. Picking a schedule, I realize now, is really important. I like to pick based on a number of factors - quality of professor, what time of day it is, whether or not they're plus or non-plus blocks, and if the classes are one right after the other or spaced out.</p>
<p>If you want, I can look up the times that all those courses are offered, and which professors are teaching them, and you can research the professors and which blocks you like best. PM me! And if you're coming to visit, IM me at bluirinka, I have free Mondays and can show you around if you like :-D</p>