Highlights from the Tufts senior survey.
Tufts gives all seniors an interminable (and mandatory) survey to complete online prior to graduation. I’ve been clicking radio buttons and check boxes and drop-down menus for the past hour. Below are some of the nuggets of wisdom I provided for the poor saps who have to read all of these things.
Survey question: Did you do a senior thesis?
Answer: No.
Survey question: Why not?
Answer: Towards the end of my junior year, I visited my advisor and asked him, “Should I do a thesis?” And his response was “Nah.”
Survey question: Is there anything Tufts could have done to make you consider doing one?
Answer: If he hadn’t said “Nah,” I might have considered it.
Survey question: Why did you double major?
Answer: No big reason. I like English, but I also like music.
Survey question: How did the double majoring affect your experience at Tufts?
Answer: Frankly, if I had just majored in English, I don’t know what I would have done with all the free time.
Survey question: Which course best characterized what a truly excellent college course should be?
Answer: Music for Multimedia II.
Survey question: Why?
Answer: When I took this course, there were only four students, and we learned to use state-of-the-art recording software in a fancy computer lab. We went on a class trips to visit a recording studio video game developer. It should be on the cover of every Tufts pamphlet.
Survey question: Any additional comments about your Tufts experience?
Answer: Tufts was pretty great. My high school guidance counselor encouraged me to apply to Harvard — we didn’t have enough Ivy-bound students, I think — but I told him I’d rather be here. I think I made the right choice.