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If the relationship between a university and its students is purely economic, then I’m becoming increasingly unsure of what I or Duke bring to the table. Are we both as valuable as we’re portraying ourselves to be?
Tearing down the walls I had built around me and allowing others to enter the private fortress where my innermost thoughts and emotions resided was exhilarating and unnerving in equal measures.
I’ve known about Sven since, well, when I was born, but I’ve never really “known” him.
Time and time again, we bemoaned the difficulty of paying attention, the induction of fatigue and the lack of quality in online instruction. Now that we are finally back to in-person classes, why aren’t people going?
The move of group-living organizations from Central Campus to the Durham community created negative consequences for Durham residents.
A loss is not an end but an opportunity, a means for growth and learning.
By choosing to post thoughts publicly, without the identification of a name or pseudonym, a YikYak user is exercising their right to be anonymous in a public online encounter. But, the subject of discussion–if it is indeed a person or a group of people—has no such privileges, unless the Yak is obscene enough to be moderated.
The progress flowed faster than you can say “Milton Friedman is kinda the GOAT fr.”
I’ve come to realize that task forces are like rabbits—you put two of them in a room for long enough, and soon enough there are 10.
For the people that chase after a profession out of pure passion regardless of the salary, I applaud you and I respect you immensely. But I’ve stopped pretending that I am one of those and I’ve stopped feeling guilty for what happiness looks like for me.
Because we are all ashes, alike, we should all be better stewards of ashes, treating each other with great care, gentleness, tenderness, kindness and love.
I am not scared by the silence before the storm, but by the silence after sunset.
When people questioned athletes like Gu deciding to represent China, comparing her to athletes like Chen who continue to represent the U.S., whether I agree with their decision or not, I do acknowledge the risk and courage it took to make either decision.
Taking chemistry was a mistake.
I joined not as an experienced actress or confident storyteller or believer in my own worth, but quite the opposite. It was a selflessly selfish endeavor: I wanted to bring life to someone else’s words in hopes that it would help me find my own. Just for fun, I reasoned, not recognizing at the time how much this show would come to mean to me, and what it can mean to you.
The denial phase begins where everyone begins at Duke: orientation week, better known as O-week. Nothing makes it easier to avoid confronting the gigantic life shift that is college like no work and all play for a whole week...but denial never lasts forever.
Against the backdrop of a high-cost, fragmented healthcare system, the US healthcare marketplace continues to experience a flood of new choices.
Fat shaming--this idea that we can bully people into losing weight--is blind and dumb.
I've come face to face with society's critical treatment of women masturbating, a memory that reemerges each time I search up vibrators on Amazon.
Being alone most of the time meant that I was forced to befriend myself, and as I got to know her a little more, I grew comfortable with her.