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This is the latest song released by Olivia Rodrigo.
What is "drop dead"?
If you are grabbing a quick coffee between biology labs in the TTC, you are likely ordering from this specific Tufts café.
What is Kindlevan Café?
Alexander Fleming accidentally discovered this first true antibiotic.
What is Penicillin?
The molecular currency of energy (that you are completely out of by finals week).
What is ATP?
This red, spicy fermented cabbage is a staple of Korean cuisine.
What is kimchi?
This Korean film won 4 Oscar Awards in 2019.
What is Parasite?
This Chem 2 legend has actually been testing Tufts pre-meds' sanity since 2005.
Who is Professor Sergiy Kryatov?
This tool is used by doctors to listen to your heart and lungs.
What is a Stethoscope?
This constant represents the number of atoms or molecules in one mole of a substance.
What is Avogadro's number?
This incredibly popular Mexican dip, primarily consists of mashed avocados, lime juice, onions, and cilantro.
What is guacamole?
This singer has the most Grammy awards.
Who is Beyoncé?
He was the original owner of Jumbo, and one of the Tufts buildings is named after him, where you’ve likely sat through a massive lecture.
Who is P. T. Barnum?
If you have a persistent skin rash that won't go away, you'd visit this type of doctor.
What is a Dermatologist?
The cellular powerhouse that gives you more power than your money, status, and network.
What is the mitochondrion?
This popular Greek street food features meat cooked on a vertical rotisserie, thinly sliced, and wrapped in a soft pita with tomato, onion, and tzatziki sauce.
What is a gyro?
In Grey's Anatomy, Dr. Cristina Yang famously leaves Seattle to take over a state-of-the-art research hospital located in this European country.
What is Switzerland?
A popular term associated with Tufts for the theory that universities reject overqualified applicants.
What is Tufts Syndrome?
Also known as the "Master Gland," this gland is located at the base of the brain and controls several other hormone glands.
What is the pituitary gland?
This enzyme's primary job is to "unzip" the DNA double helix during replication.
What is helicase?
This hot and sour Thai soup is famous for its aromatic broth of shrimp, lemongrass, and galangal.
What is Tom Yum?
This doctor's tearful, repetitive scream of "I am a surgeon!" became the ultimate 2023 meme.
Who is Dr. Shaun Murphy (from The Good Doctor)?
A Tufts alumnus won the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on these specific voltage-gated channels in cell membranes, now studied in Intro Bio.
What are potassium ion channels?
Damage to this specific brain region causes a patient to lose the ability to produce speech while still being able to understand language.
What is Broca’s Area?
This equation will always be there whenever you calculate the pH of a buffer solution.
What is the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation?
A daily staple across West and Central Africa, this smooth dough-like food is made from pounded cassava or yams and eaten by hand with soups.
What is fufu?