Daniela Flamini is a Trinity junior. Her column runs on alternate Mondays.
Heavenly Buffaloes goes by many different nicknames on campus, but owners Mark Dundas and Dain Phelan prefer to call it the best spot in town.
For the first two years, I learned what it felt like to not take oneself too seriously—after all, I’d literally just learned my ABC’s, so I wasn’t too harsh about imposing limits and expectations on myself. If I could conjugate at least one verb correctly, it didn’t matter if the rest of my sentence was off.
I know that my pickiness makes me a frustrating person to have around sometimes. I’ll only accept invitations to eat at Thrive on Central Campus after 5 p.m., when they ditch their healthy, salad-infested lunch menu and offer their more edible dinner selections, like pizza and chicken nuggets.
Over winter break, I decided to worsen my social standing a bit by deleting Instagram off my phone.
So we may all be dying faster. But damn, we look great doing it...
For a few months now, I’ve been repeatedly telling my friends about how excited I was to finally turn 21 and be able to order a goddamn beer with my burger at Burger Bach.
It does make me sad and a bit concerned that I am losing a sharpness with numbers I once possessed; in high school, I was often top of my math classes.
Duke’s somewhat limiting social scene has been among the hardest of adjustments to make for these displaced students. “Clubs in London always had musical guests, and they wouldn’t make people pay for tickets, so the cover charge would stay the same even when we went to go see Diplo, Travis Scott, Akon or Jason Derulo,” Carolina said. “Maybe they cleaned the saddle on the Shooters bull since we’ve been gone?”
Cartoon by Daniela Flamini, a Trinity junior.
Daniela Flamini is a Trinity junior.
Daniela Flamini is a Trinity junior.
