Grades and GPAs don’t often reflect the growth a student has experienced over the course of a class or their academic careers, rewarding never failing instead of rewarding failing and getting back up again.
To be vulnerable and forgiving might be rewarded in the form of a lifelong friendship, but it ultimately means something bigger — it shows us we are capable of fostering relationships with others, things that connect us to our own humanness.
The women’s washroom — as momentary as it may be — is knowing that your nameless and faceless sisterhood is real.
Duke has given me everything I could have dreamed of and more...I have nothing but gratitude. Except maybe, the smallest bit of regret.
We owe it to ourselves to let art fill our souls. To let conversations with other people make us see the world in new ways. To listen to music and look at an artwork and to watch a film from decades ago and know that people have felt happiness and sadness and anger and love and pain and loneliness the way we do, all along.
Rooted in curating special and interesting pieces, Bull City Vintage is a local company that started in October 2020. Their unique pieces have captured the attention of the Durham community and they currently amass over 9000 followers on their Instagram page.
