OPINION | CAMPUS VOICES
To build a home
By Victoria Wang | February 2, 2023I must have a place where I can ground the love that only I can guarantee to myself.
I must have a place where I can ground the love that only I can guarantee to myself.
We have sunken into a mindset where youth is our prime, and if we don’t achieve success during our prime, then we have missed our one critical chance to “peak” in life.
If we view ChatGPT as a tool, rather than a threat, maybe (just maybe) a future world with ChatGPT will be a world with more “good” writers.
I remain conflicted because, of course, I want to personally sound as smart as possible…but, in modifying the way I talk to fit the norm, I’m further reinforcing the dichotomy between the way the “educated” and “noneducated” speak.
Our nation is, yet again, crying out for justice, equality, reform, and answers – answers to the same question – asking why this happened again.
The distorted societal, economic, and political perceptions are artificial but pervasive in nature, creating barriers to the liberal arts. Reevaluation of the social classes' role in forming and sustaining their perceptions is crucial when we advocate for liberal arts educational accessibility.
If neuroscience can’t prevent a downward spiral, can it at least remind me to bring a parachute? Or an antidepressant?
When we try to slip back into these previous patterns of existence, we jut out like misfitting puzzle pieces. Our lives are split into two halves, and somewhere along the way, there emerges two of us.
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.
They were exceptional ambassadors of Duke University who showed "outstanding character", exactly the kind of student James B. Duke wanted at the school.
The challenge we have as Dukies—or really as human beings—is how to belong but not divide.
Duke has long branded itself “the university in the forest.” But new developments proposed in the Duke 2024 Master Plan shatter this illusion.
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.
Arriving at Duke University in 1955, Coach was a beloved friend and mentor to thousands of Blue Devils who adored their enthusiastic professor and fondly remember his aphorisms.
As a former editor of the paper, a professional journalist, and a member of the Duke and Durham communities, I deeply mourn his death on Dec. 19.
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.