A sacrament of pause
By Luke A. Powery | YesterdaySilence — as uncomfortable as it can be — could be what we need in our TikTok society full of talking media heads.
Silence — as uncomfortable as it can be — could be what we need in our TikTok society full of talking media heads.
My choice to prioritize home is a reminder that sometimes, the greatest joy comes not from being part of the crowd but from embracing the paths that lead us back to where we belong.
While responding to climate change should still be of utmost concern, a net-zero future is not enough to restore ecological balance to our planet.
Despite all the burdens you carry, however, there are still ways in which you can discover pieces of yourself.
I hope we stop throwing away our hours of grinding and that we recognize schoolwork can serve student development and our community at the same time.
If science is the most epic narrative of who we are, how things work and how we got here, what’s more beautiful than connecting your own story within that narrative — especially if it not only helps you remember science but celebrate it?
Between the smallest scale of roommates and the largest scale of the whole 250-to-500-person Quad, there is a fundamental need for a scale of community that is structured around the natural social niche of thirty to sixty people for QuadEx to be successful at building and sustaining real communities within the model.
However, the underlying motivation is clear: Advice-givers are either trying to grow their fan base or their wallet.
There is a correlation — albeit a loose one — between one’s personality and major. But for this article’s sake, let’s pretend like everyone of the same major has the same personality.
Duke announced plans to destroy the running paths along the perimeter of the campus and replace them with a moat. To exit East Campus, students will now be required to leap or swim.
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.
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.