Some things are truly just out of our hands and fighting to end a policy that strives to even the playing field is not the way to regain control.
There’s something special about seeing places that are usually hustling and bustling completely devoid of energy, the helter-skelter nature of a teeming thoroughfare transformed into silence and quiet.
The challenge we have as Dukies—or really as human beings—is how to belong but not divide.
Duke prides itself on its commitment to u201cinterdisciplinarity,u201d but often its approach to doing so can be narrow-minded, and still operates on the mindset of using art to u201chumanizeu201d or u201cpopularizeu201d STEM endeavors.
Here’s the funny thing, though: the housing changes brought about by QuadEx prevented me from continuing to live with this same group of friends I made as a freshman two years ago.
Whether you celebrate Christmas or not, consider the example of Charlie Brown’s wise friend Linus.
Cancel culture is concerned more with how we should disregard the artists and write them off when they make mistakes than on how those mistakes can be used by the artists to create art that is inclusive.
Instead of perceiving crying as a weapon against our ego, we must conceptualize it as a vehicle of vulnerability, one that allows us to form stronger connections with others by revealing an emblem of our shared humanity.
When people are dying, no longer from the virus but by the hands of their government, riots and mutiny are inevitable.
It’s sad that people make acquaintances with goodbyes and have to proudly call it maturity.
They worried that our school would be next.
There are times when I worry that my genuine interest in a language that is so inextricably intertwined with popular culture might be disdained and misconstrued as the fanatical obsession of a “Koreaboo”, so much so that I shy away from opportunities to practice it with others.
Unmet expectations are a part of life no matter how old you are.
It makes sense to make personally beneficial choices but moving through life without considering others not only harms others but will also come back to bite us in the butt when others don’t feel the need to be accountable to us.
We would all face immeasurable loss if the ivory gates of elite universities–like the one we ourselves attend–are once again distanced from students who have historically been barred from reaping their benefits.
Our conceptions of small towns ooze through filters percolating for idealism, signaling a place so untouched by external corruption that we always wish to return.
This condition, coined by Duke researcher Peter B. Bennett, is called high pressure nervous syndrome (HPNS), and it’s a serious threat to recreational and professional divers.
The change we will make in the future is too important for us to be burnt out at 21.
We commodify pre-professional experiences because we think of them as tangible, resume-able activities that you can pick and choose as easily as filling out a form or two.
But with these EXPO markers being such an effective tool for understanding and communication, should we be worried about their excessive use in schools?
