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The gilded myth of private school

(02/14/19 5:00am)

The halls of private schools aren’t remotely hallowed. After walking them for 13 years, I should know. In fact, they were far from it—they gave structure to the confusion and hopelessness that categorized my experience in what, by its own claim, is an elite preparatory school. While I still appreciate the fact that I had some academic opportunities that many aren’t afforded, I look back on them as being relatively small compared to the immense, suffocating pressures implicit within the broader society of which my school was a member.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2019/02/duke-university-the-gilded-myth-of-private-school

Being independent makes me dislike Duke

(12/04/18 5:00am)

Hot take, but after most of a full semester as an independent, I can, without a doubt say that being independent has cast a massive, rather bleak shadow over my Duke experience. But Greek life isn’t the problem—independents themselves are. In my own experience, independents use organized living as a tried-and-true scapegoat for their own inability and unwillingness to foster much, if any, sense of campus community.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2018/12/being-independent-makes-me-dislike-duke

Mono, midterms and Central Campus: A real Duke experience

(10/11/18 4:00am)

One of the most important parts of leaving home is how our place in our worlds change. For me, that came into focus for the first time when I got sick in college this month, and the whirlwind of Duke University just continued on without me for the better part of a week. Growing up, I was used to everything simply stopping the second there was a sick child in the household. I was shocked at how isolating, boring and lonely being sick at college really was and that, somehow, I was going to have to take care of myself.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2018/10/mono-midterms-and-central-campus-a-real-duke-experience