FOMO, although used commonly as slang, desperately requires an intricately genuine, delicate conversation about self-worth and self-awareness.
For no immediately obvious reason, an entire third of Duke in New York students this year have visible tattoos.
That is the truly horrific thing about pessimism towards humanity: it perpetuates itself.
Note taken, caretaking doesn’t have to look like traditional instances of letting someone go before you in traffic. Holding open the door to absurd musical numbers can do just the trick.
As much as we love (or hate) the food, mealtimes are so much more than just nourishment for the body—especially in a communal environment like college.
Protein bars and other on-the-go “health” items are a lesson in trying to please everybody but actually pleasing nobody. No dessert blogger would feature a protein bar that looks like a bootleg 3-Musketeers; no whole food nut could advocate for eating protein bars too frequently either -- the fiber would warrant WAY too many trips to the bathroom.
Hyperpop lets creators reshape their songs to have whatever sound they want, with absolutely no limits, pushing the underutilized third dimension of music, timbre, to the limit.
Prioritizing fulfilling, meaningful rest time generates more creative, effective work time and more genuine, attentive “play time.”
Write a script with your life that others can read to understand the nature of the poetry of integrity.
The multi-multi-million dollar, fifty-thousand square foot Brenda and Keith Brodie Recreation Center - right in the heart of East Campus - sits idle with its doors bolted shut.
Due to the lack of a Native Studies Program at Duke University, both Native students and the entire student body are barred from fully learning the history of the land that they call home.
I call it homesickness, because surely if there's a name then there's a way.
“Who let the dogs out? Who, who, who, who, who?” They always ask who let the dogs out, but not who takes care of the dogs. Well the answer for both, at least for Durham, is the Animal Protection Society.
The racism I experienced was delicate and fragile; it took the form of a seemingly harmless whisper that faintly irked me, just enough to unsettle me.
Likewise, in New York, those who do not know nor wish to know the experiences of Chinese in America are the ones who will stride right past its doors on Centre Street.
We might be better off fixing the conditions which made someone break the rules, rather than wasting energy punishing them for it.
My friends here are all in the same boat. Due to work and extracurriculars, we see each other less and the time we do spend together is mostly spent mitigating each other’s respective mental breakdowns.
The unfortunate truth is that biogas is not the perfect solution it claims to be.
I don’t mean that we should pretend not to know anything about this campus and act surprised every time we encounter it. But in a very real way, this campus remains a total mystery to us.
