My Moment

Tufts graduates from around the globe share stories of personal transformation—from small moments that offered new insight or inspired fresh thinking to life-changing events that altered the course of a relationship or career.

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Point of View

I Protected My Children From Our Holocaust History. But Then They Grew Up

In Serbia’s capital, my daughter and I learned side by side about my father’s wartime experience—and our family’s heartbreak

July 18, 2025

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Point of View

I Thought Mentoring Was Just Something I Did. Then I Lost My Wife.

What began for me as a way to support students became something deeper: a way to honor love, create purpose, and cope with grief.

May 7, 2025

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Cancer

Healing One Bite at a Time

When doctors gave me two weeks to live, nutrition science and culinary art saved my life—and inspired a career teaching future food coaches.

April 23, 2025

Point of View

I Left an Engineering Job to Teach English on a Fulbright Scholarship

In the process, I discovered that nothing matters to me more than helping young people find the confidence and capacity to achieve their dreams

February 25, 2025

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Urban Planning

I Was an Engineer at Ground Zero After 9/11

For months after the terrorist attack, some 400 engineers made sure the area was safe for rescue and recovery crews. Now a documentary tells our story.

January 10, 2025

Point of View

A Weekly Ritual Sparks a Decades-Long Friendship

I met Cory in 1990, when he was 7 and I was 20. The conversation started, and we’ve never run out of things to talk about.

May 29, 2024

Point of View

I Never Wanted a Dog—Certainly Not One that Bit People

Somehow, I found myself spending an hour a day in the woods with a rescue animal that had attacked my sons. Would this end well?

May 3, 2024

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Point of View

‘Becoming a Rabbi Never Occurred to Me’

After working in international economic development, I decided to deepen my Jewish learning—and changed careers in my 50s

September 14, 2023

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Point of View

I Left Medicine for Motherhood and Art—and Found My Joy

Being a parent is the most important work I’ve ever done. And as a painter and gallery owner, healing continues to be my focus

March 6, 2023

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Activism & Social Justice

A Sorority Apologizes for a Decades-Old Harm

Receiving Sigma Kappa's letter of apology this year prompted Terrie Williams Schachter to recall what it was like to be at the center of a stand against...

December 5, 2022

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My Moment

I Protected My Children From Our Holocaust History. But Then They Grew Up

I Thought Mentoring Was Just Something I Did. Then I Lost My Wife.

Healing One Bite at a Time

I Left an Engineering Job to Teach English on a Fulbright Scholarship

I Was an Engineer at Ground Zero After 9/11

A Weekly Ritual Sparks a Decades-Long Friendship

I Never Wanted a Dog—Certainly Not One that Bit People

‘Becoming a Rabbi Never Occurred to Me’

I Left Medicine for Motherhood and Art—and Found My Joy

A Sorority Apologizes for a Decades-Old Harm

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