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Amy Fan is a Trinity senior. Her column, "fangirling," runs on alternate Thursdays.
By the class of 2018, English had dropped to the 19th most popular first major, with 21 first majors and 30 total majors.
But the world is more complicated than that, and the only reliable way I’ve found to learn about that world is to be more immersed in that world.
For a student body that likes to talk about the benefits of diversity, it’s bizarre that so many people’s career values converge into a few specific values.
Am I qualified? Am I that good? When will people find out that I'm a farce? Why am I applying to all these jobs?
When entire subcultures of Duke are built around a shared interest in acquiring specific skills and becoming employed, the humanistic aspect of an education seems to be lost and instead become a collective group of hammers looking for a nail.
About 21 percent of students in the Class of 2018 pursued a double major, but some overlaps were much more common than others.
What are the classes I would have dared to take, the people I would have dared to reach out to for help, the conversation I would have dared to have?
Nationally, the median public school student attends a school where 51.7 percent of students qualify for free or reduced lunch. At Duke, the median is 19.39 percent.
In order for all students to flourish, we need to support each other first and foremost. After we all finish studying for their next midterm, that is.
Duke University officials noted that if students are frustrated with the model, they are free to leave the school and return back to their local charter school.
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