FOMO is going around faster than the flu these days, with everything from Rush to UNC games to miss out on. However, by releasing unnecessary obligations, college life will start to feel a lot more manageable.
If one doesn’t bother to think, one may not even realize that one’s actions are deeply wrong.
I can confidently say that “The Chef’s Kitchen” has had one of the greater glow ups in recent memory, in its transition from It’s Thyme to the ‘Hawaiian Place.’ “It’s actually really good, I promise. Just give it a chance.” I have given it a chance. I have given it seven chances.
“Some people say K-Ville’s gone soft. But I say the line monitors are harder than ever!”
Because it’s not just about being late … this is one of many ways we, as Duke students, have collectively decided to put ourselves over others.
We often need to feel the heat of the fire firsthand before we truly understand why we were warned against it.
It’s a shame that Panda is gone, but it’s also a shame that It’s Thyme’s arrival — what should have been an exciting occasion — coincided with the elimination of Panda Express.
As I delve deeper and deeper into adulthood, it seems to me that our self-identities and perceptions are increasingly contingent on our relationships with others.
There are some terrifying thoughts lurking down there, kind of like when you are out by the creek and flip over a rock and see all the creepy-crawlies underneath. Homicidal urges, illicit desires, feelings of guilt, revenge, or dread, tabooed thoughts about Apocalypse.
I am excited to see what lessons my twenties hold in store for me, and I secretly hope that they’re a bit of a rollercoaster.
You might be experiencing tough times, your own wilderness. But I hope you don’t miss the deacons of God in your midst.
Personality tests aren’t “scientific,” but self-understanding isn’t meant to be a scientific process.
Intellectual posturing is almost always an offense and is only legal and celebrated for existing intellectuals who are already famous.
This is the central paradox of the elite university: It is simultaneously America’s crown jewel and its black sheep, an embodiment of everything this country can achieve and everything it has failed to thus far.
The music crescendos and suddenly you’re there. You’re standing on a rain-soaked road and the daylight is dead, but you finally feel alive.
The oaks have survived the first hundred years of Duke’s turbulent history. Let’s make sure they’ll be around one hundred years from now.
Not only does hyper grade inflation diminish the value of true achievement, it also shields us from a reality that does not deliberately accommodate our success.
It's not simply our lives we protect with prose and protest. It is our way of life itself.
At the end of the day, it is not our future self that will be asked to work towards that goal, but our current self.
While most pre-professional societies do not have a residential section, Beta Upsilon Mu members creatively promote residential connections by commandeering a new common room to couch-surf in every week.
