<p>although tufts is a FABULOUS school, is there anything to complain about? anything you wish was a bit different?</p>
<p>It’d be cool if we had an indoor bowling alley, an ice-skating rink, a movie theatre, an arcade, underground tunnels, open elevators in all dorms, an air field, a tank and more street vendors on campus. But other than that, I’m pretty satisfied.</p>
<p>^^^^ That made me laugh. </p>
<p>I’m still holding out for a live elephant at our games.</p>
<p>tuition/cost…</p>
<p>Lack of housing for juniors…</p>
<p>^^^ agreed—living off-campus junior year forces people into their niche groups and puts a damper on the overall sense of community—Tufts is a fabulous school with a terrific emphasis on community—it needs to figure out how to fix this</p>
<p>I completely agree.
This was not a problem when I attended … so many years ago.
Tufts needs to find a way to deal with this.</p>
<p>Most people I know WANT to live off campus junior year. I feel like the bigger problem with junior year housing is that there isn’t enough convenient off-campus housing available.</p>
<p>1) ResLife works hard to dampen spirits and degrade quality of life on campus, but simply moving off campus will alleviate that problem.
2) Safety. Namely, the lack of it. Violent crime is rare, but muggings and break-ins around campus are a weekly event.</p>
<p>That being said, I still love the crap out of Tufts, and I’m glad I went here.</p>
<p>Registration is a pain (but I think it is everywhere)… especially for me because I’m a math major but since all the engineers register first, they usually get the best times/professors. Granted, that’s only a problem through calculus/differential equations and then I’m not taking the same classes as them anymore. In the grand scheme of things, it’s not a huge deal, but it’s given me a headache or two and I do wish Tufts would cap the number of engineers would could enroll in each math class to give Liberal Arts kids a chance.</p>
<p>But to quote Snarf, “I still love the crap out of Tufts” =)</p>
<p>I’ve actually never remotely had a problem with registration. Not once have I been unable to take a class that I wanted to - even classes that were technically “closed”. I’ve found that if you ask the professor and indicate your sincere interest, there’s never a problem.</p>
<p>we don’t get puppies to play with during finals week to destress like some schools. seriously, best idea EVER</p>
<p>I recall one student came back to our HS and wanted to transfer. His reason: He felt Tufts lacked school spirit. He wanted to do things like go to football games and route for the team. He eventually found his niche and stayed. I think he sometimes went to visit friends at other colleges so he could get that, “Ra-Ra” school spirit.</p>
<p>^^It depends, of course, on how one defines “school spirit.” I think Tufts has plenty of school spirit, but it’s not of the rah-rah variety that’s related to football games, etc. If you want that, go to Michigan, Duke, or any number of fine schools. Tufts is not the place to go if that is very important to you. (One of the reasons why my daughter is not there; which is fine with me because she is incredibly happy at a first rate midwestern school that does have football games, etc.) But Tufts has plenty of school spirit, as another parent was just telling me he found when visiting with his daughter and talking to students in the dining hall, or as was on display during the Bubs’ recent run to the finals in The Sing-Off on NBC.</p>
<p>Tufts: where the a cappella groups are as popular (more popular?) than the football team.</p>
<p>Not that the football team isn’t also fun to watch.</p>
<p>I’d say a cappella is FAR more popular than the football team or any of the others. I’m sure they’re all fantastic, but I don’t know anyone who’s actually been to a Tufts sporting event unless they were on the team. And I do wish that was a little different as a former athlete myself.</p>
<p>lioness is right. Most Tufts students have only been to football games on Homecoming, and even then the opposing team has usually brought more fans. Students would be hard-pressed to even say where the basketball or hockey teams played.
Sports just aren’t big here. I would say we have more school spirit than many other schools, though - Tufts students are happy and proud to be here.</p>
<p>some relatively superficial complaints:</p>
<p>spotty wifi even in places where it supposedly exists
quite gross facilities with some notable exceptions (sophia gordon, granoff, library, fletcher). doesn’t feel like your going to an expensive or reputable place.
dining hall closing early on weekends+hodgdon not being open on weekends</p>
<p>agree about school spirit-its strongly manifested in areas outside of football/sports.</p>
<p>oh and on a more serious level, I think the school is overpriced. tufts should not be the most expensive school in Massachusetts. I can’t really tell where any of the money goes. maybe bacow secretly has a fleet of bentley’s or something. I don’t know whether, at the current price, its a worthwhile investment or comparable to what you would get out of some other similarly priced schools.</p>
<p>Let me get this straight. Tufts does not have dorms for juniors?? :O</p>
<p>Ooh yeah the housing situation for juniors seems pretty rough</p>