The Freshman Facebook Celebs: Part 2

This is part two of the Freshman Celebrities interview with Graham Starr and Andrew MacMaster. For Part One, click here!

Why did you choose Tufts?
 
Andrew MacMaster: Honestly, I applied to Tufts on a whim and I was undecided for like the longest time because Brown was my first choice. So we got the whole Ivy League rejects thing continuing. Two hours before the Tufts application was due, I was like oh **** I’m applying to Tufts. So I did. I did all that stuff and wrote my essay, which is my favorite essay I’ve ever written, like 20 minutes before.

What was it about?
 
AM: A sandwich.
 
Graham Starr: It was the sandwich that Franz Ferdinand [ate].
 
AM: I had so much fun writing that.
 
GS: I did the optional essay, the video one.
 
AM: But uhmm, so after I got into Tufts, I was a little surprised, frankly. So I was still deciding between URochester and here. And I went to the open houses for both of them. So I went to stay with some kid from Rochester and it was fun, it was a blast, and I saw Pulp Fiction for the first time ever and I enjoyed myself.
 
GS: Good movie.
 
AM: It is a good movie.
 
GS: I’m a huge Quentin Tarantino buff, I don’t know if you’ve noticed that.
 
AM: I have, yeah. I frankly think he’s a little too popular for his talent.
 
GS: Really.
 
AM: Whatever.
 
GS: He’s very much…

AM: (interrupting) …not worth discussing now. So, I came to AOH…and everything about it was amazing. People had t-shirts from web-comics that I read, and we discussed paradoxes in logic at lunch. Plus, you know, the Bubs. I had been a huge fan for years.
 
GS: Well, my top two choices were Tufts and Colombia. And my school had like a thing where [colleges] only accept one person to each Ivy. So basically I ended up getting rejected from Columbia, which made my decision a lot easier. But I had wanted to go to Tufts anyway. If I got into Tufts and Princeton, I would go to Tufts.
 
We now interrupt this interview for a random aside…
 
AM: There’s actually this video I found that’s ten hours of the Tetris theme, which is a YouTube video that’s just ten hours of the tetris theme [on a loop].
 
GS: Yeah, so three days ago it was like eleven o’clock at night and I’m going to go to sleep because I have to wake up early…
 
AM: You did not say that before I put it on.
 
GS: No, no but I was working at the time…
 
AM: It was a mental image.
 
GS:  I was working on EPIIC stuff and then he found twenty four hours of Nyan cat. (Andrew begins singing the Nyan song at this point and continues through the conversation.) And so he plays that while I’m working and then leaves the room for like the entire night.
 
AM: That is not true. I went to the bathroom.
 
GS: No you did other stuff too, in the lobby.
 
AM: I was in the lobby. I got side-tracked.
 
GS: I was working for an hour and this was going and I just basically tuned it out and then I decide I’m going to sleep. I climb into bed and it’s still going. I was like **** this. No. So I ended up just closing his laptop.
 
AM: I kind of want to go a day and just listen to the entire thing.
 
GS (getting back on topic): Oh yeah, but Tufts was my top choice. 

So what’s your favorite thing about Tufts now that you’re here?
 
AM: Bubs.
 
GS: Not EPIIC.
 
AM (laughing): Everything but EPIIC.
 
GS: But actually, I like EPIIC a lot, it’s just a lot of work but it’s a lot of fun and one-of-the-best-things-ever. Best thing about Tufts so far is the ability to basically just text somebody and be like “Hey, let’s go hang out.” and you walk for a minute and get to their dorm and just hang out.
 
AM: I would say my favorite thing is actually the people.
 
GS: I agree. That’s what made the decision for me.
 
Last question, describe Tufts in one word.
 
AM: Tufts…T is for the T in Tufts…
 
Both (singing): U is for the U in Tufts, F is for the F in Tufts, T is for the other T in Tufts, S is for the S in Tuuufts. 
 
AM: You can also go on to spell university…
 
Graham, did you have your one word?
 
AM: Platitudinous.
 
GS: Ummm.
 
AM: Let me google that.
 
GS: Does it have to be in English?…Translate passionate into Russian.