My call to action is finding the balance between taking time to introspect and taking action to make positive change in our community.
Am I qualified? Am I that good? When will people find out that I'm a farce? Why am I applying to all these jobs?
And I'll never forget those words you said next: "They did surgery on a grape." It was cold that night. But you were so warm.
Music does not cure chronic pain; nothing does. But it certainly helps.
Just as elders are not prima facie a source of wisdom, youth isn’t necessarily a fountain of low time preference.
We must support others while keeping in mind their autonomy, facilitating their own journey towards a place of self-understanding and fulfillment. After all, we are more than a puzzle to be solved, a project to be fixed. We are human.
I intend to major in English, but even with my convictions about the importance of Asian representation in the arts , I know I will double with another major of which my mom will approve.
Sometimes, you really do have to just stay in your lane, especially when it comes to collective experiences of race, identity, sexuality, and gender that one simply does not have.
And even if I haven’t found my Modern Love-r, my true Tinder match or my college romance; even if I have made mistakes and messed up, I have humanized and given and advocated and fought. I have loved.
I have been caught up in remembering my previous Duke Thanksgivings. They have always just felt like a comma, a brief pause in the long stretch of the fall semester that strikes just before the end.
I contend that oftentimes our criticisms of cultural appropriation begin from both a privileged position and internal insecurity of our own identity, particularly for Asian-Americans like me.
Survivors face this trauma, isolation and shame even without a sexual assault investigation hanging over their heads.
The people don’t want to be informed, they want to be entertained.
With the wind snapping at my heels as I rush across Wannamaker Drive, there’s only one thought racing through my mind: why is it so damn cold?
To feel like I belong here at Duke, I’d have to feel like I was more than just a consumer.
Despite time constraints or fear of divisiveness, we have a moral obligation as voters and citizens to be informed. Read the news, it does you and the world good.
We should lament that our rules are imperfect and unjust, and then seek to reform them in a spirit of good-will by speaking the Truth, by loving one another—even our enemy—as our neighbor equal in worth and dignity.
Don’t fall for the re-branding attempt to brainwash you. Boxed water isn't better, it is just rebranded water.
Student Health’s misdiagnosis delayed Matson from receiving necessary treatment and medication, negatively impacting her academic, social and emotional well-being.