The beauty and terror of skiing
By Nathan Luzum | February 9, 2023When we got to the ski school, they made us sign a waiver that had “DEATH” in capital letters on it. This seemed like a promising start.
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When we got to the ski school, they made us sign a waiver that had “DEATH” in capital letters on it. This seemed like a promising start.
There’s something special about seeing places that are usually hustling and bustling completely devoid of energy, the helter-skelter nature of a teeming thoroughfare transformed into silence and quiet.
Duke is a constant. But just like the students who grace its paths for a few short years before moving on, administrators also make a graceful—or occasionally ungraceful—exit when their time is done.
If the glint of the sun catches your dining partner’s eyes just right, it might just illuminate their intrinsic hopefulness and goodwill, revealing them as a bastion of radiance in a world of iniquity.
The idea of being in the hospital so soon in your career seems great until you finish the first year and still feel woefully unprepared. But if life’s about anything, it’s about being woefully unprepared in as graceful a manner as possible.
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.
Maybe it’s a note your mom sent you in the mail, maybe it’s a kind gesture from a friend, maybe it’s a man from Lubbock reminding you just how amazing it is to stroll into one of the most legendary stadiums in the country whenever you feel like it.
A flight attendant might say no, but I’d never get the seat if I didn’t ask in the first place.
There’s tremendous value in engaging with the world around us, even if the interactions don’t seem particularly profound or meaningful in the moment.
In fact, I think a lot of medical students feel like the sixth floor: consistently told they’re destined for something great, but currently stuck filling a number of vague roles until they find out what the future holds.
The string lights brighten up the dark BC plaza.
SAE may have to leave their section due to their suspension.
Have you tried riding one of the new electric scooters that popped up on Duke's campus this year? Managing Editor Nathan Luzum tried one out for the first time and brought us along for the ride. This is part one of a two-part series by The Chronicle about the electric scooters. Part two compares the speed of the two types of scooters on campus. Hosted by Nathan Luzum Videography by Tessa Delgo and Jackson Muraika Edited by Bre Bradham
The placard next to the painting. "Untitled 1" was not actually painted at the Mural Durham Festival.