The Road Taken
By Bradford Colbert | April 20, 2010It’s my final column of the year, so you’re going to have to bear with me while I get a little literary.
It’s my final column of the year, so you’re going to have to bear with me while I get a little literary.
With basketball season successfully over, Duke’s second most exciting season is about to get underway: bookbagging season.
But logistical concerns aside, I want you to think about the roughly 1200 students who make K-ville their home away from home until the big game and ask an important question: what kind of...
To be perfectly honest, the term “independent” has never sat right with me. The title strikes me as a misnomer for any active member of our Duke community.
When I first read about the K4 dormitory project, I thought my mind must have been playing tricks on me in the heat. Building a brand new dorm? I thought. That’s a funny thing to do during a...
The snow wreaked havoc on the scheduled start of Blue Tenting season, with night after night of grace and the cancellation of the party meant to celebrate the transition out of the Black and into...
On Jan. 2, my twin brother and I set out from our home just north of Boston, Mass. Nine days and 3,500 miles later, we arrived at his new apartment in Los Angeles, Calif.
Every family has that one crazy relative—in my family, it’s my Uncle Steve. He used to ride a unicycle to work, he celebrates “1,000 days” instead of birthdays and he reuses calendars year after...
For college students, Thanksgiving is an opportunity to take a “break” for a few days before the semester races to a close. “Break” is in quotation marks because you’ll be so overloaded with final...
Every now and then even the most effortlessly perfect among us run up against a string of disappointments. The past few days have been fraught with disappointments for me.