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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.
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.
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.
Taking chemistry was a mistake.
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.
I am not scared by the silence before the storm, but by the silence after sunset.
Paul was erudite, accomplished and revered. But he also was down to earth and fun – so much fun -- to be around.
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.
Fat shaming--this idea that we can bully people into losing weight--is blind and dumb.
Against the backdrop of a high-cost, fragmented healthcare system, the US healthcare marketplace continues to experience a flood of new choices.
Y*** Class of 2021. A t-shirt that means the mythic gates have opened to me! But I will never pass through to Elysium.
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.
Duke didn’t become a premier academic institution by gutting the things that work. The TWP works well in its current form.
Instead of framing new technologies solely as tools to get through the pandemic, Duke can apply these new strategies to make education more accessible to its student body.
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.
The first step to giving back to ourselves may be recognizing and embracing our non-superhumanity.
A phenomenon like K-Ville, which emphasizes the effort part of the meritocratic equation, rather than aptitude or advantage, begs some difficult questions about what it means to deserve something, especially among the educationally elite.
I wondered how many people waiting for their sandwich knew the true cost of their bacon to the people of Sampson and Duplin Counties, where Smithfield’s operations are concentrated.
People should hate Duke because we’re infuriatingly good, not because we are prejudiced.