OPINION | CAMPUS VOICES
The art of giving up
By Valerie Tan | November 8, 2023In hindsight, I’ve only regretted not quitting sooner.
In hindsight, I’ve only regretted not quitting sooner.
We should shut the bathroom faucets at night before we resort to becoming vegan, in an effort to save the world.
In this fall season of nostalgia and memory, I want to ask you: Who do you remember and who do you forget?
The tragedy is that while Duke’s administration squanders money by chiseling away at the edge of pavements, many small improvements — actually capable of strengthening a sense of community among students and improving student life — go completely overlooked.
When my summer ended, I realized I should have cherished my college experience a lot sooner because of its flexibility, its friendships and its fleetingness. I sometimes thought Duke was a dungeon, but I should have realized it is Neverland.
Most people don’t know that barely a mile off campus, there’s an entire research institute dedicated to parapsychology (PSI) — the study of psychic and paranormal phenomena.
Their overarching message is clear: Women can either be the feminine good or the masculine evil.
Race-based affirmative action is the only remedy to a historically inequitable system.
Words don’t have to mean anything in and of themselves: They don’t have to conjure up a mental picture or reduce to some essential definition. Instead, we use words much like how we use game pieces, in a sort of language game we learn by observation.
After chatting with Duke administrators and professors striving for tenure, I learned that the expectation of “good teaching” is barely — if at all — considered compared to research output.
As Halloween approaches each year, I find myself yearning for the expansive celebrations of my childhood. Not just for the costumes and the festivities, but for the sense of community, the shared experiences and the collective effervescence that the holiday symbolizes.
If you’re still looking for a last-minute fit, don’t worry: Monday Monday has got you covered. Check out these eight easy costumes sure to wow the deans.
“I, like everyone, want to go to New York City because everyone else wants to go to New York City.”
QuadEx does not claim to supplant existing social circles; rather, its intended purpose is to provide solace to those students who are atypically reserved or reticent or encounter financial constraints preventing them from indulging in a vibrant social life.
The women’s washroom — as momentary as it may be — is knowing that your nameless and faceless sisterhood is real.
When I study for a test, I am not simply being a good student: I’m making good on a promise: a promise that I won’t let the sacrifices of the people who came before me go to waste.
Conference realignment isn’t only a tragedy because of the death of classic rivalries but also of the planet itself.
I am beginning to reassociate what it means and how it feels to do work in college
Is it selfish not to be selfless?
With two months left in the year, we have to act with conviction that it is not too late. Planting a seed today might get us at least a sprout by December.