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Nobody wants to admit that they’re making a choice that is some shade of gray.
If there’s only one thing I hope to share with my peers in the Class of 2026, it’s that the foundation for us to connect with this new community is to first connect with ourselves.
But in order for students to take consent to heart, they must first understand what makes wrongful sex wrong and undesirable sex undesirable, not the other way around.
What will your life be like if you allow yourself to choose one of them despite your fears? Where will you go? What will you miss out on if you don’t push through? A lot of life is what we make of it, so go do the thing that scares you the most.
In the search for a promptly sparking, effortlessly working romance, we objectify people, and that will in return objectify us.
I wrote this letter to you in the hopes that it would make you feel a little less lonely.
Understanding the far reach of accommodating and accounting for 1740 first-year students begged the question of where Duke would fall short.
I want you to remember that to be alive is to die one day, and that you should never feel guilty for getting one more chance, one more morning, one more moment to experience, to grow, to regress, to be.
This time, no longer shackled by my overthinking tendencies, I will be brutally honest if I must and less afraid to infuse my writing with more personality.
The idea of being in the hospital so soon in your career seems great until you finish the first year and still feel woefully unprepared. But if life’s about anything, it’s about being woefully unprepared in as graceful a manner as possible.
The way Duke’s upperclassman food plan works majorly contributes to a culture of ignoring breakfast, replacing meals with coffee, pushing off eating until work is done, and choosing the cheap option over the more desirable one, behaviors that are not only encouraged but often lauded in that toxic “suffering more than thou” way of bragging.
At the same time the Career Center was empty, Latinx students sat on the floor of their own space and had to grab chairs from across the Bryan Center.
This new housing option provides a variety of benefits for students, such as being closer to classrooms and libraries, making sure each resident gets plenty of fresh air, and promoting a better sleep schedule by getting rid of the ability to ignore the sun in the morning.
You have to be strong in order not to seek self-satisfaction, self-gratification or self-promotion.
To diminish this source of community at all is disheartening; to diminish it sooner than we had expected is even more so.
I am writing this letter to challenge your idea of a decency quotient and, more specifically, of recognizing DQ.
Peaches the community cat, the placemaker—this is how I will remember her.
As the flags fly low on campus today (Thursday, August 18), please remember her and the great work she did helping to make Duke University what it is.
With only four to six van drivers, though, I anticipate wait times will be through the roof; some students and staff might end up taking the dangerous walk to their car or dorm/apartment late at night.
If I still can't get a visa this fall, I will give up the opportunity to study at Duke University.