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You stare at the blank screen, and the blank screen stares back at you. It’s 3 AM on a Monday night and you have a paper due in the morning.
The problem I see with forgiveness, however, is that it is always expected.
History is a privilege that most minorities aren't afforded; instead, like many other things, they have to fight for it.
[My probation list] is a safe space where my friendships exist in a state of constant flux, a Goldilocks zone where people can come close but not too close for comfort, a healthy buffer that preserves my sanity in the crucible of college socialization.
If your unhealthy coping mechanisms are turned inwards—if you suffer those quietly, too—you’re a bona-fide ‘healthy person’ in most people's eyes.
Reading brings up a step closer to freedom from ourselves, from our daily walks as citizens, from the thoughts of our own time.
With so much of our lifestyle and work being intertwined with technology, a high screen time may be hard to escape. The problem with Gen Z and technology would be better attributed to what content we consume and how we consume it during our time in front of a screen.
Sure, playing a one-woman game of Taboo isn’t going to instantly change any outward objective reality or metaphysically erase the items on my Google Calendar, but truly, truly, something began to change.
The Live Movement is not a force to be reckoned with, nor a student cause to brush under the rug. Rather, the student-led Live Movement is something the Blue Devils can stand to learn from. What the Live Movement and subsequent Blackburn Takeover teaches us is that students are worthy of occupying spaces on campus, and thus the spaces on campus must be worthy enough for the students that occupy them.
While a common refrain in Phineas and Ferb is “carpe diem,” or “seize the day,” it seems like Duke students would rather seize tomorrow, disregarding short term happiness and mental stability for the possibility of looking impressive and being successful later.
Unfortunately, Duke’s selective nature doesn’t end when you get into Duke.
As creatures of this Creator God, we are meant to embrace a creation vocation, that is, to create art and beauty in the face of formless voids, even pandemics.
If the Dead is the representation of a chill, stress-free life where you take things day-by-day and have no worries about the things you cannot control, then Duke is the antithesis to this.
Squirrels don’t carry more weight than they need to. They just enjoy the small mouthfuls of victories from each trip.
A million snowflakes can create a snowstorm of change.
The inexplicable urge you feel to check through your Twitter feed right before you go to bed isn’t as unreasonable as you might have thought.
In the pursuit of academic, professional, aesthetic validation, we abuse our minds and our bodies through overwork.
BIPOC TCK are out here creating entire worlds of thinking within themselves.
This fear of being the odd one out, by simply existing as a normal human in the world, can perpetuate our instinct to hide our blunders.
I remember sporadically bawling throughout the day, one of the greatest experiences of my life