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April 14 | College & Careers

We asked 6,000 New Englanders: Is a college degree still worth the cost?

Emerson College Polling and the Globe Magazine partnered on a sweeping survey of adults around New England. Here’s what they had to say.

The homeowners’ art collection inspired the interior color palette. The painting on the left-hand wall by Dominican artist Hilario Rodriguez was a gift from Alejandro Bascuas’s aunt. A grouping of mixed-media portraits hangs above the chair: one by Miriam Tribe on the left and two by Carlos Kahan that the couple brought back from Brazil on the right.

A ‘micro-addition’ made a big difference in a Jamaica Plain home renovation

College debt is higher than ever. One in 2 grads with loans have regrets.

Why conservatives are turning against college, even in New England

Advice

‘Does this just happen on dating apps?’ Dealing with disappearing acts.

This week's daters: Joe B. and Katrina Z.

Blind date: ‘We discovered we both had done AmeriCorps after college’

A couple we were friends with is suddenly avoiding us

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This week's columns

The FAFSA aid debacle is like trying to get Taylor Swift tickets. My kid can’t go to college until it’s fixed.

As a parent going through the college aid process for the first time, everything related to this form has felt like an unmitigated disaster.

As a college student, I’d never written an actual letter. They seemed so old-fashioned.

I sat by Walden Pond and wrote about the whiplash transition of moving cross-country and going from carefree adolescent to working young adult.

Salmon With Barigoule

From soup to salmon, garden-fresh vegetables star in light, bright spring dishes

Earthy meals make use of seasonal ingredients, such as artichokes, peas, and cucumbers

Designers removed some walls to create an area that serves as a dining room, bar, and lounge.

Dining room redo makes it both pretty and practical for empty nesters

A merlot-colored carpet brings some color to this multi-purpose space.

Your Week ahead
Five things to do around Boston, April 15-21
Attend the 128th Boston Marathon, watch an a capella competition, and more.

On the Block
For sale: Center-hall Colonials in West Roxbury and Marshfield
No matter the century, we love the enduring, simple symmetry of the classic design.

CommentsGlobe Magazine readers have lots to say about car idling
Also this week: A story about an Auschwitz survivor and an essay about grieving strike an emotional chord with readers.

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April 7 | Your Home: Renovations

Designer Trisha Luong demonstrates that you don't have to match table and chairs.

Eight common interior design myths and mistakes, and how to fix them

The homeowners’ art collection inspired the interior color palette. The painting on the left-hand wall by Dominican artist Hilario Rodriguez was a gift from Alejandro Bascuas’s aunt. A grouping of mixed-media portraits hangs above the chair: one by Miriam Tribe on the left and two by Carlos Kahan that the couple brought back from Brazil on the right.

A ‘micro-addition’ made a big difference in a Jamaica Plain home renovation

“Contrasts of light/dark and hard/soft reflect the push and pull of the home’s modern/traditional aesthetic,” says designer Sarah Burgess.

How a Charlestown family remade a Federal-style row house into a home for its third century

Architect Elizabeth Herrmann worked with the sloped site of this Vermont house, locating the mudroom at the higher elevation on street level and the kitchen on the same plane as the existing structure.

In Vermont, a respectful addition to a modernist Techbuilt kit house

March 24

Illustration for Hanna Krueger story on Harvard Medical School morgue scandal in magazine on March 24, 2024.

For years, no one noticed body parts disappearing from Harvard’s morgue. Then came a phone call.

My father donated his body to Harvard. What happened after was horrifying.
He donated his body to Harvard Medical School and I’ve been left wondering: How I can keep my memories of him untainted?

Recommended reads

Illustrations for magazine's March 3, 2024, cover story about an ice climbing accident on Mount Katahdin in Maine in 1974.

An ice climbing disaster on Mount Katahdin. A desperate rescue mission.

It was a mild winter day in 1974 when six climbers set out on a route no one had ever attempted. Then came a storm of unimaginable fury.

Portugal Gif

Off Portugal’s beaten path, I found culture, family — and belonging

The best sandwich in Philadelphia might not be a cheesesteak

Richard Evans Schultes in the Cerro Campana mountains in Colombia, in June 1943.

The quest for psychedelics in the Amazon would push a Harvard botanist to his limits

Special Projects

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An in-camera double-exposure photograph of Kate Price overlaid with the woods of a Pennsylvania rest area, where she remembers being taken as a child.

Kate Price remembers something terrible

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