<p>I’d like to offer a new definition for Tufts Syndrome. I stopped off at Tufts on my way home from a conference in Boston this past weekend, and met my son for dinner in Davis Square.</p>
<p>At one point during dinner, I said - “Wow - do you realize that your first year at Tufts ends in about six weeks?” My son said “I don’t want to discuss it”. “Why?” I asked paternally - “too much work to do? Things not going well?”</p>
<p>“No…no not that” my son said “I just don’t want it to end. I love it here”.</p>
<p>That, my friends, is the new Tufts syndrome. Cede no ground to the other schools and their reputations. As it said on my son’s T-shirt: “Fear The Jumbo”</p>