As a reproductive-aged rising OBGYN, the consequences of the Dobbs decision on safe reproductive care are as personal as they are professional.
Perhaps, we need something simpler: the permission to take a break.
Religion is meant to be a supplement to your faith; it is not meant to be a replacement.
Rejected from The Fluke twice, chronic bench napper, DSG expat: My name is Zoe Tishaev (sometimes known as my mobile order name, “Candice Nutzfitinyomouf”), and it has been an honor to serve as your Monday Monday.
Writing my OP-Eds has been a means of deep self-reflection, and that’s what I’ve gotten from my time as a columnist.
Critics of affirmative action argue that universities reduce people down to their race. By eliminating the Reginaldo Howard Memorial Scholarship program, Duke has proved them right.
But while we often trumpet what’s gained with efficiency, we fail to consider what’s lost. Sometimes we have difficulty parsing the tasks requiring efficiency from those that offer opportunity for discovery, enjoyment and whimsy.
May I make clear that I do not ask that any of you compromise on your own views. I simply request that you recognize that disagreement is more often rooted in a difference in values and circumstance than it is in ignorance and/or unintelligence.
If we don’t question, we embrace the status quo and lose out on an opportunity to shape the future.
This broken relationship between the ivory tower and the much larger rest of the world furthers distrust in evidence-based research and all of science as a whole.
Your advisor urged you to explore intellectually! Expand your mind! Try something new! You saw their lips moving but heard no sound.
Defining the terms and conditions of your life in such concrete terms makes it seem as if you’re guaranteeing your success. Don’t fall for the trap.
As we come to the end of this academic year, and as you look toward the summer and beyond, take a song with you on the journey. It is a gift for your soul.
Continuing the annual tradition of soliciting alumni donations, this year’s performance of an “Average Day at Duke” was a smashing success. The alumni committee went above and beyond to organize a Centennial spectacle to remember.
Real change occurs over timescales that are beyond our attention span.
By freeing up that mental space, we can go on learning “more important things” like physics and philosophy. But at the same time, there is an associated cost. We are losing independence.
I was at a loss about why and how people would argue against gender-affirming care, except possibly due to religious beliefs or unfamiliarity with transgender issues.
We face different struggles, and we process our pain in different ways. For me, I process by being brutally honest. Telling the truth enables me to live as I am: I can be at peace with how I feel and simultaneously strive to make things better for myself.
While reflecting on my four years of education here, I noticed a trend in their staying power, almost so simple it’s stupid: The classes I got the most value from tended to be the ones in which I paid the most attention.
We fear ever diving into the dreaded phase that lies on the other side of childhood: adulthood.
