Career Fellows

Class Year: 2022
Majors: Child Study & Human Development and Clinical Psychology
Hometown: New Hyde Park, NY (born and raised in Weston, Florida)
Favorite place on campus: Lilly Music Library
Dream job: Early Childhood Mental Health Clinician
Tufts activities/involvements: Student Worker at Lilly Music Library, Tufts Opera Ensemble, Tufts Student Theatre, Tufts Enchanted A Capella, Tufts Child Development Association

The rate at which you get adjusted/acclimated to each season of college doesn’t need (and shouldn’t) be at the rate of those around you. What matters most is that you are going at the rate that works and is best for YOU.

Class Year: 2022
Majors: Psychology and Economics
Hometown: Istanbul, Turkey
Favorite place on campus: Tower Cafe
Dream job: Marketing in the Food/Arts/Culture sectors
Tufts activities/involvements: Tufts Psych Society, Students of Turkey, European Students Association, Tufts Daily

Learn to push yourself out of your comfort zone without being hard on yourself. Often the opportunities you want lay outside of your comfort zone. It is perfectly normal that you are scared of going there but once you are there you might realize it is not as scary as you thought it was in the first place and you might even enjoy being there.

Class Year: 2022
Majors: Economics, History
Hometown: New York City
Favorite place on campus: Wherever my friends are
Dream job: The cheese equivalent of a sommelier
Tufts activities/involvements: Treasurer for Taiwanese Association of Students at Tufts, past employee at Tisch Library, occasional anonymous writer for the Observer

Compete only with yourself and be a fair judge. 

Class Year: 2023
Major: Math and Geology
Hometown: San Diego, CA
Favorite place on campus: Prez Lawn
Dream job: Lawyer
Tufts activities/involvements: Model UN, Resident Assistant, Tufts Geological Society

Don’t be afraid to reach out for help!

Class Year: 2023
Major: Undecided
Hometown: Sharon, MA
Favorite place on campus: Relaxed, sun-bathed afternoons in Carm, enjoying good food and great company
Dream job: Make films at Pixar, write/design for the New York Times Magazine, and/or own a sandwich food truck named “Sammy’s”
Tufts activities/involvements: Member of Club Ultimate Frisbee Team, TUSC Marketing: Graphic Design Coordinator, Tufts Wilderness Orientation (TWO) Support Staff, Contributing Writer for the Arts and Features Sections of the Tufts Daily

If you’re ever feeling all stressed out and internally tangled, hit pause, take a walk or a shower, and, if weather and geography permits, lie down on some grass and listen to your favorite songs. It’s often better to tackle problems then you’re unwound rather than knotted-up.

Class Year: 2024
Majors: Math
Hometown: Ann Arbor, MI
Favorite place on campus: The Braker Hall fire escape
Dream job: Data analysis for a political group
Tufts activities/involvements: ExCollege board member

There are billions of unique careers in this big world. Don’t trick yourself into thinking you have to do something you’re not passionate about!