Can a non-partier survive at Tufts?

bluirinka
Fri, 05 May 2006 18:24:02 +0000

no Julia, that’s actually true. I know about the ensemble scholarship, I’m applying for it next semester haha. If you look at the music department webpage they talk about paying 90% of the fee if you declare a music major/minor.

I get what you’re saying about bonding w/people about shared excitement for Tufts, but pretty much everyone I met here was like “Oh god…myspace”. I know plenty of people who struck up realllllly strong online friendships, talking for hours and hours online and even on the phone. When they got here, they didn’t speak at all. Maybe because they lived too far away, or something, but it left them kinda bitter.

Here’s another thing. I have a good friend here who’s the only other guy from my town to come to Tufts. He and i were pretty close in HS, hung out a lot, he took me to his prom. We ended up being put in the same dorm to our surprise and delight. He is an awesome kid. But on myspace, for some reason, he had this really creepy picture up, called himself “The Rover” and made regular posts but with things that could be misinterpreted as sketchy. I had to follow each of this with a counterpost of “Mike, ***. Everyone, I swear to god that Mike is TOTALLY NORMAL, do NOT think these posts are representative.” When we got here, Mike made lots of friends, but today one of our friends was like “Hey Renee…what was with the whole Rover thing? I didn’t realize that that was Mike until like December, but by then I knew him too well to think he was creepy.” Also, on the day of Orientation, I was having a conversation with a myspace kid about how creepy it is to run into myspace people. He was like, “OMG, do you know who I saw today? THE ROVER!!! IT WAS SO WEIRD!” And I had to immediately tell him that NOOOOO MIKE IS REALLY COOL I SWEAR!

I have friends who did myspace, and friends who did not do myspace. The ones who didn’t have never said, I regret not being on myspace!