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How to be high income at Duke and not the worst person

(02/08/19 7:39pm)

I am tired of reading about being low-income at Duke. Weekly, I am confronted with the anomaly of my low-income status on Duke’s campus in the form of emails and truly well-intentioned events. “Brunch for 1st Gen, Low SES students!” “Conversation on Financial Management at Duke!” Daily, I am confronted with my low-income status in a more personal way, as I look at the brands of jackets, bags, and surprisingly even day planners around me. Yes, feeling uncomfortable, out-of-place, and insecure transcends carrying the heavy weight of financial insecurity on your back. It can be superficial. It’s just as often, and valid, that I feel these insecurities when deciding whether to buy Juul pods as I do walking into my third job. 

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2019/02/how-to-be-high-income-at-duke-and-not-the-worst-person

Wear what you want

(04/03/18 4:00am)

As I say every time I present myself to new people, in a slow southern accent stronger than my usual drawl, I’m from “Oaaak I’lan, North Caralinah.” Yes, Oak Island is, in fact, an island. It’s a little Y shaped thing off the southern coast of North Carolina. A mile wide, 14 miles long, the world was relatively close. I grew up smack dab in the middle of it. Everything that was anything was in walking distance; my family’s business, the Food Lion, the beach, the waterway, the library, the arcade, the Dairy Queen (DQ). 

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2018/04/matson-nakedness

'The Prince of Los Cocuyos' explores the complexities of childhood

(08/30/17 4:02am)

Three-fourths of the way into “The Prince of Los Cocuyos,” I put it down, feeling like it wasn’t leading anywhere. The memoir, chosen as the recommended reading for the Class of 2021 Common Experience, follows the childhood of poet and author Richard Blanco as he navigates his place in his household and city. As a child, surrounded by Cubans, Blanco feels uncomfortable not being as “American” as his elementary school classmates. He tries to change this by incorporating more conventionally American food and habits into his everyday life and squirming away from his parents’ broken English in public. Yet, as Blanco ages, he begins to feel guilty for not being “Cuban” enough—not knowing how to salsa, not being able to share in memories of Cuba that his family has, not wanting to participate in machismo activities. The memoir also follows Blanco’s confusion and difficulty with discovering, and later accepting, his own sexuality, along with his search of acceptance outside of himself. 

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2017/08/the-prince-of-los-cocuyos-explores-the-complexities-of-childhood