The question Duke administrators must answer before overhauling Trinity’s curriculum is whether they want us to graduate as a jack of all trades or a master of a few.
With ChatGPT's help, I feel less pressure to produce perfect writing from the start, allowing my ideas to flow.
From my perspective, safe spaces are merely platforms for groupthink, absent of the diversity and disagreement that often leads to intellectual growth.
These days, I crave the kind of job where I can hammer nails into things; pick heavy boxes up and move them around; run heavy, loud machinery; and come home after eight hours to a cold six-pack and some TV.
In focusing on “getting through” the difficult parts of college, we miss the greater sense of what we’re doing here at all.
These tributes to Hans J. Van Miegroet, professor of art and art history at Duke who passed away on Feb. 9, were originally submitted to the department of art, art history and visual studies. The Chronicle has compiled quotes from these tributes with permission from their authors.
Poetry may not stop your individual suffering or the suffering of the world, but it can keep you alive and ensure that you are not consumed by existential chaos.
Sometimes the grass is greener on the other side because it’s fake.
In rhetoric, sure, the Duke administration has expressed the greatest trust in their student body, composed of some of the brightest young minds in the world. However, their insistence on intervening in the lives of its students suggests the opposite — that Duke has little to no trust in us at all.
It pains me when people say they don’t like science because it’s “boring,” because that’s the only way they’ve ever experienced science: as incremental information overload until it becomes less overwhelming.
If we acted exactly the same around all of our acquaintances, we’d have very few colleagues and even fewer friends.
In some places, the Word matters. It lives in a tangible physical world where when you speak your truth, you will be exiled; dispossessed; brutally beaten; shot dead on the street ...
Love shouldn’t be hierarchical, with romantic love as the pinnacle transcending other types of love.
We hinge our contentment on what we think we need, rather than what we have. The world doesn’t make us unhappy. We do.
Without the Herbarium, and support for future faculty in biodiversity research, Duke’s reputation in this area will wither on the vine.
Unlike traditional Marriage Pact tests, the Blue Devil Situationship Match (BDSM) Program involves open-ended questions analyzed by AI to better match you to the perfect non-exclusive, uncommunicative, not-committal partner.
But it truly is better to be single than to be in a bad relationship. Because being single doesn’t mean being alone unless you choose to make it that way.
The Duke Herbarium is such an asset, and its loss would be to the detriment of Duke’s reputation as a leading scientific research university.
In Duke’s 100-year history, only two alumni have gone on to become heads of state. One is ... Ricardo Lagos, a largely overlooked alumnus whose life should inspire Duke students, faculty, staff and alumni throughout the next 100 years.
Somehow in a culture that is constantly expressing love, from the most serious of romantic partners to best friends to valued material goods, we have denied the legitimacy of love beyond romance.
