A well-designed liberal arts curriculum should be such that liberal arts students enjoying and exploring liberal arts naturally finish them, without even checking the ‘Degree Progress’ tab on Dukehub.
I'm so focused on connecting with the world that the value of understanding myself vanishes in the noise.
Duke has given me everything I could have dreamed of and more...I have nothing but gratitude. Except maybe, the smallest bit of regret.
Instead of continually applying the duct tape of real estate acquisitions to the gushing pipe of the student housing shortage, Duke needs to address the root cause of the problem: the university’s residential model.
Exams are stressful. My suggestion? Deal with it — an examination-free world might be worse than you think.
In preparation for the Centennial, we have converted West Campus into an immersive construction experience.
Mind the margins in books, buildings, sports, subways and our wider society. It’s the margins, the borders, that tell us what kind of society we really live in.
The responsibility to do better not only falls on Apple’s shoulders but ours as well.
Yes, our food is good. But is it worth $13 a meal?
Duke football may never surpass basketball in popularity, but we can become a school that supports our football team better.
Even Duke launched a Center for Integrated Psychedelic Science in 2022 to explore the therapeutic effects of hallucinogens, ketamine, and MDMA.
Never have I seen Abele Quad in such a state — goalposts in the grass abutting the Social Sciences Building, jury-rigged wires and camera equipment on buildings, a big old TV set in the middle of the West Campus bus stop.
It’s true that you can change yourself to some extent. But there’s no reason for anyone, including you, to treat you only as what you can’t control.
It is contradictory and discriminatory in itself to prioritize one group over another.
We see careers as linear — where each job must lead perfectly to the next. So, understandably, we think what we pick for our first role in the professional world is crucial, forever closing and opening doors.
You cannot choose to live as colorblind in a world that clearly isn’t.
My measure of self-worth was always my talent; at that moment, I felt like summer had ripped it away from me.
For me, tech is the epitome of the contemporary American dream and while we love to pretend that it’s a perfect meritocracy, so much of achieving upward mobility is built on luck.
A more overarching predicament that afflicts the academic milieu at Duke University is the tendency toward an excessive degree of coddling.
Something has made me believe that I’m not allowed to enjoy life if I don’t look good while doing it. And it’s BS.
