What's in your inbox? ☀️ July 2022 ⛱️
Tufts' International Team receives many questions from around the world about the application process and international student life at Tufts, and we're here to answer some of the most frequently asked questions in our inbox. This month we’ll answer your questions about how to start my essay, and we thought we would add in some book, music and tv recommendations.
More from Tufts Admissions
- 49:12Understanding Financial Aid at TuftsHear from members of the Financial Aid Office on the ins and outs of financial aid, how Tufts calculates financial aid, and what that means for you.
- 56:28Tufts Mock Class: Human Factors Engineering and Engineering PsychologyLed by James Intriligator, Tufts Professor of the Practice in Mechanical Engineering. “Human Factors Engineering” and “Engineering Psychology” are two interdisciplinary majors offered at Tufts. In fact, Tufts is home to the country’s oldest (and some say most-distinguished!) Human Factors programs. In this short course you will learn what “human factors” is all about. You will do this by first learning a tiny bit of history, then learning a bit of method, and THEN by doing a whole lot of design, and human-factors engineering. Come see how Human Factors Engineering and Engineering Psychology are creating, changing, and optimizing the world.
- 58:24SMFA at Tufts Virtual Portfolio WorkshopThis program is designed to answer all of your questions about what goes into a great SMFA portfolio. The portfolio you submit with your application is our introduction to you as an artist and should be as personal as your personal essay. Join us to hear from a current student about making sense of all the portfolio advice out there and from a member of the admissions team that reviews studio art portfolios on how to make your portfolio speak in your own voice. We’ll show some examples and take your questions.
- 1:00:46Tufts Mock Class: Climate ActionTaught by Parke Wilde, Professor of Environmental Studies at Tufts UniversityLearn about tools and motivation for organized climate action, using interactive worksheets to practice quantitative planning subject to a science-based carbon budget, recognizing tradeoffs across environmental, economic, and social objectives.
- 1:07:34Tufts Mock Class: Free Will—What is it? Do we have it?Taught by David Denby, Distinguished Senior Lecturer of Philosophy at Tufts.Free will makes you a person. Without it, you are not morally responsible for your actions, and the projects and commitments that your actions express and that give your life meaning would not really be yours at all. On the other hand, it is a fundamental presupposition of science, everyday thought, and perhaps rationality itself that every event has a cause. The problem is that universal causation seems to be incompatible with freewill. Being a person means acting freely; an intelligible world in which rational action is possible means universal causation, but we can’t have it both ways!
- 34:59Tufts Student Panel: Inside the School of the Museum of Fine Arts At TuftsIn this presentation, we'll take a deep dive into the interdisciplinary curriculum and all-access philosophy at SMFA. Through stories and images of student and alumni work, our specialized studio spaces and campus resources, and our neighborhood in Boston, you'll learn about how SMFA prepares students to forge their path in the art world. You’ll be invited to ask questions and to join the conversation about how students take advantage of studio access and university resources.