In writing my last column, I didn’t want to be that overly nostalgic, cliché, doesn’t-want-to-graduate senior who won’t stop gushing about memories and sharing things on her bucket list.
The Duke Lemur Center is on my bucket list of places to go before I graduate (sob). So when several of my friends learned about free tours last weekend, I jumped on board.
When people do wrong things, they should feel remorse. Remorse, however does not necessarily entitle one to sympathy or public defense.
To all of you underclassmen who are scrambling to land a consulting internship or stressing about getting the BEST DukeEngage, let me tell you a story.
Around 19 years old, I took what I now tell myself was a more mature look at my life and decided on some important standards that needed to be fulfilled.
“Tell us about yourself in four sentences.” Impossible, right? I faced this annoyingly trite question on a job application once. You really expect me to reveal who I am in four thought-provoking...
“How was your break?! What did you do?!” are a few of the inevitably trite questions I’m asked by person after person upon my return to campus.
If someone steals our laptop, makes a ridiculous comment in class or spills our coffee on the C-1, we generally tell everyone about it.
