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When they are at the gym, the presence of a gym crush is more powerful than the most caffeinated pre-workout and the hypest gym playlist. Suddenly, those last two reps feel like nothing and the heaviest barbell on your back barely registers. The prospect of three sets of planks is less repulsive when you spot a certain somebody nearby.
Using the nebulous language of “good” and “bad” to describe the intrinsic righteousness of human beings is lazy at best and irresponsibly reductive at worst.
I hear hope in a harmonica—a mouth organ with oceans of resonant dreams. Where do you hear hope?
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In fact, I think a lot of medical students feel like the sixth floor: consistently told they’re destined for something great, but currently stuck filling a number of vague roles until they find out what the future holds.
Why visit the Winchester Mystery House when you can visit Wilson?
Through our academic struggle, we got to know our peer friends' passions and dreams, and our peer friends got to know the same about us
FOMO, although used commonly as slang, desperately requires an intricately genuine, delicate conversation about self-worth and self-awareness.
For no immediately obvious reason, an entire third of Duke in New York students this year have visible tattoos.
That is the truly horrific thing about pessimism towards humanity: it perpetuates itself.
Note taken, caretaking doesn’t have to look like traditional instances of letting someone go before you in traffic. Holding open the door to absurd musical numbers can do just the trick.
As much as we love (or hate) the food, mealtimes are so much more than just nourishment for the body—especially in a communal environment like college.
Protein bars and other on-the-go “health” items are a lesson in trying to please everybody but actually pleasing nobody. No dessert blogger would feature a protein bar that looks like a bootleg 3-Musketeers; no whole food nut could advocate for eating protein bars too frequently either -- the fiber would warrant WAY too many trips to the bathroom.
Hyperpop lets creators reshape their songs to have whatever sound they want, with absolutely no limits, pushing the underutilized third dimension of music, timbre, to the limit.
Prioritizing fulfilling, meaningful rest time generates more creative, effective work time and more genuine, attentive “play time.”
Write a script with your life that others can read to understand the nature of the poetry of integrity.
The multi-multi-million dollar, fifty-thousand square foot Brenda and Keith Brodie Recreation Center - right in the heart of East Campus - sits idle with its doors bolted shut.
Due to the lack of a Native Studies Program at Duke University, both Native students and the entire student body are barred from fully learning the history of the land that they call home.
I call it homesickness, because surely if there's a name then there's a way.
“Who let the dogs out? Who, who, who, who, who?” They always ask who let the dogs out, but not who takes care of the dogs. Well the answer for both, at least for Durham, is the Animal Protection Society.
